The override function allows a website to be accessed even though it is classified as forbidden. The user must click on the override button to request the forbidden page to be opened. You can configure this feature so that the administrator is notified when the override button is clicked (LANconfig: ).
Important: If the override type "Category" has been activated, clicking on the override button makes all of the categories for that URL accessible to the user The next blocking page to be displayed has just one category explaining why access to the URL was blocked. If the override type "Domain" has been activated, then the entire domain can be accessed.
The settings for the override function are to be found here:
LANconfig:
Command line:
- Override-Active
- This is where you can activate the override function and make further related settings.
- Override duration
- The override duration can be restricted here. When the period expires, any attempt to access the same domain and/or category will be blocked again. Clicking on the override button once more allows the web site to be accessed again for the duration of the override and, depending on the settings, the administrator will be notified once more.
Possible values:
- 1-1440 (minutes)
- 5 (minutes)
- Override type:
- This is where you can set the type of override. It can be allowed for the domain, for the category of web site to be blocked, or for both.
Possible values:
- Category
- For the duration of the override, all URLs are allowed that fall under the affected categories (as well as those which would already have been allowed even without the override).
- Domain
- For the duration of the override all URLs in this domain are allowed, irrespective of the categories they belong to.
- Category-and-Domain
- For the duration of the override, all URLs are allowed that belong to this domain and also to the allowed categories. This is the highest restriction.
