Setting Up Websense V-Series Appliances
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Websense V-Series Appliances
After collecting the information needed, access the Appliance Manager through a
supported browser.
Follow these steps to enable default proxy caching and filtering. See the Appliance
Manager Help for detailed instructions on any field or area, or for information about
other available settings.
1.
Open a supported browser, and enter the following URL in the address bar:
https://<IP address>:9447/appmng
Replace <IP address> with the address assigned to network interface C during
initial configuration of the appliance.
(See
Perform initial command-line configuration
.)
2.
Log on with the user name
admin
and the password set during initial appliance
configuration.
3.
In the left navigation pane, click
Configuration > System
.
4.
Under
Time and Date
:
a.
Set the time zone.
b.
Set the time and date:
•
Automatically synchronize with an NTP server
: select this option to use
a Network Time Protocol server. Specify up to three NTP servers. Use of
an NTP server is recommended, to ensure that database downloads and
time-based policies are handled precisely.
Full policy source IP address
This appliance provides (choose one):
Full policy source
User directory and filtering (you
must specify the IP address of a
machine running Policy Broker,
which can be a
full policy source
appliance)
Filtering only (you must specify
IP address of a machine running
Policy Server, which can be a
full
policy source
or
user directory
and filtering
appliance).
TRITON Unified Security Center location
(user interface for managing Web Security
Gateway)
TRITON Unified Security Center can run on this
appliance or on a separate Windows server. By
default it is enabled to run on the appliance. During
the setup procedure below you will decide where it
should run.
Note: Organizations with high traffic volume or
large reporting needs are encouraged to install and
run TRITON Unified Security Center on a separate
Windows server, to optimize performance.See
Creating a TRITON management server
.
Choose: runs on this appliance or runs
on separate server
