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SurfControl Web Filter v5.5 Administrator’s Guide 41
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Unmonitoring Destinations or Users
Unmonitoring users or destinations is useful when you want Web Filter to ignore specific destinations, or
the browsing behaviour of particular users. For example, destinations that are categorized as ‘Company &
Intranet’ may be heavily browsed, and as a result, may not require monitoring.
To prevent a destination being monitored:
1Select Monitor Settings from the Monitored Data section.
2 From the Unmonitored Destinations tab, click New. You can add the following data:
• URLs - The address of the Web Site being accessed.
• IP addresses - If a destination is being accessed by this method instead of its URL.
3 Click Apply, then OK to close the Monitor Settings dialog box.
4 Click Update Configuration to update servers connected to the database.
To prevent a user or a domain being monitored:
1 From the Unmonitored Users tab, click New.
2 Enter the network name for the user. Wildcard entries can be used. For example to add a whole
domain enter YOURDOMAIN\*.
3 Click Apply, then OK to close the Monitor Settings dialog box
4 Click Update Configuration to update servers connected to the database.
Refresh
Refresh updates the summary and detailed user information in the Monitored Data panes as it is added to
the database.
MONITORED USERS TASKS
As well as being available from the Information pane, you can access the Monitored Users tasks by right-
clicking a selected user.
Print
You can print the information shown for a selected user.
Note: When entering IP addresses, do not include the http:// prefix. If this is added the
destination will still be monitored. Wildcard entries, for example; *.yourcompany.* will ignore all
your corporate Web sites. When a destination is unmonitored, it can still be filtered (blocked or
allowed ) by rules.
Note: Unmonitored users do not have their data recorded to the database. However, they are
still checked by the Anti-Virus Agent and filtered by any rules that you have in place.