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10 Administrator’s Guide SurfControl Web Filter v5.5
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Initial Monitored Data Settings
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Table 2-1 Monitor Settings
Tab Description
General Monitor new users
By default all new users who log on to your network are detected by Web
Filter, and their Internet activity is automatically monitored. You can
select not to automatically monitor new users.
Page level information
This option is selected by default. It will only store the domain name of an
allowed site. For example, www.allowedsite.com/someinfo will be stored
as www.allowedsite.com. This can help reduce the size of your monitor
database.
With this option selected, you will just see a ‘/’ in the Detail column.
All blocked sites are stored with the full path. For example:
www.blockedsite.com/music/mp3
File Types By default, only certain web page file types (asp, aspx, htm, html, jsp,
mspx, shtml, stm) are monitored. The complete list of file types is shown
in Table 2-2 on page 12.
Monitoring of too many file types can impact on the performance of Web
Filter. If you suspect a certain file type is being accessed significantly,
select the file type and monitor it for a set period of time.
You have the following options when selecting Monitored custom file
types:
• Select the file type. All file extensions associated with this file type
are monitored.
• Select a specific file extension. The file type entry which this
extension belongs to will be grayed out, indicating a partial selection
for this file type.
You can also create your own groups with customized lists of file
extensions. See "Create New File Type Groups" on page 39 for more
details.