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SurfControl Web Filter v5.5 Administrator’s Guide 49
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CATEGORIES
SurfControl Web Filter uses its Internet Threat Database to categorize the destinations saved in your
database. You can view the destinations grouped by category on this tab. You can use the categories
seen to construct rules for your organization. For more details on the Internet Threat Database and
categories, visit www.surfcontrol.com
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The Categories pane is split into Summary and Detail category information.
SUMMARY CATEGORY INFORMATION
This pane displays the categories monitored by the Web Filter database. You can also see the following
information displayed in the columns.
• Category - Shows the SurfControl Internet Threat Database category for the destination.
• First Access - Shows the date and time Web Filter first logged the destination.
• Last Access - Shows the date and time Web Filter last logged the destination.
• Connections - Shows the total number of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) transactions made to
the destination.
DETAIL CATEGORY INFORMATION
When you select a category in the summary pane, the detailed category information is displayed in the
bottom pane. The following information is displayed in the columns:
• User - Identifies the user’s name in the following order of precedence:
– Novell user name
– EUM user name
– NetBIOS user name
– Workstation name
– IP address
• Destination - The Internet address accessed. This is the domain level address, for example
www.mysite.com.
• Detail - Shows any page level detail of the Internet request, for example www.mysite.com/
morestuff.htm. By default, Internet requests with a connection status of allowed will not show any detail
information. Requests that are blocked will show page level detail. See the Monitor Settings >
General tab description in Table 2-1 on page 10 for details.
• Via Proxy - Shows if the connection to the destination was made via a proxy server.
• Source Workstation - The workstation from where the Internet request was made.
• Protocol - The protocol of the Internet request.
• Category - The category assigned to the request.