Creating a URL Filtering Profile

You must create a URL filtering profile before you can apply the profile to a WLAN or to a user role.
To create a URL filtering profile:
  1. Go to Admin & Services Services > URL Filtering.
  2. Click the Profiles tab.
  3. Click Create. The Create New form appears.

    Creating a URL Filtering Profile

  4. Enter a Name and optionally a Description for this profile.
  5. Select one of the content filtering category groups, in increasing order of strictness, or select Custom, and select any number of individual categories.

    Selecting Level of Strictness

    Blocklisting or Allowlisting a Specific URL

  6. Optionally, in Blocklist & Allowlist, you can add custom URLs to either block or allow. Allowlist and blocklist entries override the rules configured above. A maximum of 16 blocklist and 16 allowlist entries can be created per profile.
  7. Optionally, in Safe Search, enable or disable "Safe Search" functionality from Google, Youtube, or Bing.
  8. Click OK to save your changes. A maximum of 32 profiles can be created.
Parent topic: URL Filtering