General settings

Global settings for the LANCOM Content Filter are made here:

LANconfig: Content-Filter / General

WEBconfig: LCOS menu tree / Setup / UTM / Content-Filter / Global-Settings

• Operating This is where you can activate the LANCOM Content Filter.
• Action-on-Error: This is where you can determine what should happen when an error occurs. For example, if the rating server cannot be contacted, this settings either allows the user to surf without restrictions or access to the entire web is blocked. Possible values:
  • Block, Pass
  Default:
  • Block
• Action-on-License-Exceedance: This is where you can determine what should happen when the licensed number of users is exceeded. Users are identified by their IP address. The system keeps count of the IP addresses that connect via the LANCOM Content Filter. When the eleventh user establishes a connection with a 10-user license, no further checking is performed by the LANCOM Content Filter. Depending on this setting, the unlicensed user can either surf the web without restrictions, or access to the entire web is blocked. Possible values:
  • Block, Pass
  Default:
  • Block
  Note: The users of the content filter are automatically removed from the user list when no connection has been made from the IP address concerned via the content filter for 24 hours.
• Action-on-License-Expiration: The license to use the LANCOM Content Filter is valid for a certain period. You will be reminded of the license expiry date 30 days, one week and one day before it actually expires (at the e-mail address configured in LANconfig: Log & Trace / General). This is where you can specify what should happen when the license expires (i.e. block everything or allow everything through). After the license used expires, this setting either allows the user to surf the web without restrictions, or access to the entire web is blocked. Possible values:
  • Block, Pass
  Default:
  • Block