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Web Rating Overrides

Web Rating Overrides

This feature allows you to override the FortiGuard web filtering. You can change the rating for a web site and control access to the site without affecting the rest of the sites in the original category.

To override the FortiGuard web rating, go to Security Profiles > Web Rating Overrides.

Hover over the leftmost edge of the column heading to display the Configure Table icon, which you can use to select the columns to display or to reset all the columns to their default settings. You can also drag column headings to change their order.

The following options are available:

Create New

Create a web rating override. See Create or edit a web rating override.

Edit

Modify the selected web rating override. See Create or edit a web rating override.

Delete

Remove the selected web rating override.

Status

Select Enable or Disable to make the override active or inactive.

Custom Categories

Select to create a custom category for groups of URLs. See Create or edit a custom category.

Search

Enter a search term to find in the web rating override list.

Show original categories

Enable to add the Original Category column, which shows the categories that are being overridden.

URL

The URL of a web site.

Status

Whether the override is enabled or disabled.

Comments

An optional description of the web rating override

Ref.

Displays the number of times the object is referenced to other objects.

To view the location of the referenced object, select the number in Ref.; the Object Usage window opens and displays the various locations of the referenced object.

Override Category

The new category for the web site.

Original Category

The category that the web site originally belonged to.

Web Rating Overrides

This feature allows you to override the FortiGuard web filtering. You can change the rating for a web site and control access to the site without affecting the rest of the sites in the original category.

To override the FortiGuard web rating, go to Security Profiles > Web Rating Overrides.

Hover over the leftmost edge of the column heading to display the Configure Table icon, which you can use to select the columns to display or to reset all the columns to their default settings. You can also drag column headings to change their order.

The following options are available:

Create New

Create a web rating override. See Create or edit a web rating override.

Edit

Modify the selected web rating override. See Create or edit a web rating override.

Delete

Remove the selected web rating override.

Status

Select Enable or Disable to make the override active or inactive.

Custom Categories

Select to create a custom category for groups of URLs. See Create or edit a custom category.

Search

Enter a search term to find in the web rating override list.

Show original categories

Enable to add the Original Category column, which shows the categories that are being overridden.

URL

The URL of a web site.

Status

Whether the override is enabled or disabled.

Comments

An optional description of the web rating override

Ref.

Displays the number of times the object is referenced to other objects.

To view the location of the referenced object, select the number in Ref.; the Object Usage window opens and displays the various locations of the referenced object.

Override Category

The new category for the web site.

Original Category

The category that the web site originally belonged to.