URL database tab

In this tab, the URL database provider can be changed. Two providers are available:

• Internal URL filtering engine (no database updates): URL filtering engine selected by default.
  You need to associate this engine with custom URL categories or URL bases maintained by third parties, such as :

  • French URL filtering database provided by the Rectorat de Toulouse (Académie de Toulouse), following the method described in the Stormshield Knowledge Base (authentication required),

  • Polish URL filtering database provided by Dagma, using the following method: https://stormshield.pl/pomoc/baza-wiedzy/item/zmiana-klasyfikacji-url-na-rozszerzona-klasyfikacje-dedykowana-dla-polskiego-rynku).

• Extended Web Control: this provider is available only if you have subscribed to the option, which offers a cloud-based URL database. The advantage of this URL filter is its higher quality compared to the embedded solution.

The following operation can be performed:

URL database provider

Select the URL database provider that you wish to use. You can then choose its URL categories in the URL filtering module. If the provider has been changed, a warning message will appear, informing the user that any URL filter policy using a category from the current provider will stop functioning. During the migration, you are advised to apply a URL filter policy that does not involve URL categories that are about to be deleted. This is due to different category names according to the URL databases.  For example, a previous URL filtering policy with rules including Extended Web Control categories will have to be rewritten with categories from the URL database associated with the internal URL filtering engine.

A box below the URL database provider options shows information about the provider's URL categories that are currently in use (names of categories and their descriptions).

To download updates of URL databases:

• Internal URL filtering engine: updating is carried out according to the procedure set up by the supplier of the selected URL database.

• Extended Web Control: since this URL database is cloud-based, updates are downloaded dynamically and transparently.

If the servers are temporarily inaccessible, a page will indicate that the query mechanism for the classification of the site will be automatically relaunched.