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How is a Profile used?
A Profile defines the particular filtering parameters assigned to a group or indi-
vidual. There are two kinds of Profiles. The first is the
Global Group Profile
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Category Profile tab
The default for the Global Group Profile is set up under the Category Profile tab of
the Global Group’s administrative controls. Its default is set at custom and uncate-
gorized sites are not blocked (note the Uncategorized Sites pull-down menu at the
bottom of the window). The custom setting allows the administrator to immediately
assign Library Categories to be passed, always allowed, warned or blocked to
establish the initial default level of filtering assigned to every user (IP address) until
that user (IP address) is assigned a sub-group or individual profile.
The Global
Group Profile setting doesn’t use Rules, only library categories.
The second profile is the
Group Profile
. A Group Profile is assigned to an IP
Group under the Global Group and can contain filtering parameters different from
the Global Group default. For example, a company may have a Global Group
Profile that blocks access to all sites in the earlier LegalLiability Rule example, i.e.
Pornography/Adult Content, Child Pornography, Explicit Art, Obscene and Taste-
less, and R-Rated. That means every employee (or every computer the employees
use) is subject to those filter parameters. However…
Let’s say the employees in the marketing department need to access photo
services, online publications and other sites that might contain some adult content
—or at least suggestive images. An administrator can set up a Group that is
subject to a custom profile, which might be called Marketing, which is different*
from the Global Group Profile, to allow access to the R-Rated library category. This
group, or range of IP addresses, now exists within the Global Group, but with
different filtering criteria. The rest of the Global Group (all other IP addresses)
remain filtered by the default Global Group Profile, which includes R-Rated.
