Application Control Settings

Application Control > Settings

Administrators can configure the following setting:

• Enabling reporting for events with the "Allow" action (Default: enabled)

• Enabling logging for events with the "Blocked" action (Default: enabled)

• Selecting the time interval for the violation log record (Default: 5 minutes)

• Note: If the Application Control feature is not enabled, no logs are recorded and the Application Traffic Statistics (Summary > App. Traffic Statistics) dashboard will not display data.

To configure the Application Control settings:

1. Go to Application Control > Settings.

2. Select one or more of the following by checking the check box:

3. Report Application Control events for the "Allow" action — Selecting this option allows you to monitor and report all application activity that is allowed by the Application Control polices. (Logging activity is normally turned off by default.)

4. Log Application Control events for the "Blocked" action — Selecting this option allows you to monitor and log all application activity that has been blocked by the Application Control policies.

5. Logging Interval XX minutes—Changing this option defines when to write to a violation log record. For example, the default interval is five minutes. No matter how many client violations occur in that five-minute interval, there will be only one violation log entry. MORE>>

   A user accessing the Internet using one of the tracked applications may create many sessions in a very short time. In order to prevent a flooding of events into the log database, this option can limit how often one event record is written for the activity. This limitation technique keeps the violation log from becoming too large and affecting performance. Admins may change the logging interval if they want to record to the violation log more frequently or less frequently.

3. Click Save.