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Websense – Disable Internet until Database has loaded. - 17.Jul.2009 1:53:37 PM

zakfleming

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Hi,

We are running Websense 7.1. Every now and then the ISA server needs to be rebooted in the middle of the day. When you reboot it takes a few minutes for the Websense database to load. During this time users have unfiltered internet, personally i think this is really daft. I changed something in 6.3 so that when you start the server and the database was still loading the internet was disabled.

For the life of me i can't remember what it was. Can someone give me a hint as to what needs to be changed?

Thanks

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RE: Websense – Disable Internet until Database has loaded. - 17.Jul.2009 7:04:52 PM

zakfleming

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found it... Settings >> Network Agent >> Global Settings >> {IP address of NIC}

In the old days you used to have to alter a config file.

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RE: Websense – Disable Internet until Database has loaded. - 17.Jul.2009 9:42:41 PM

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Another idea here is to configure Websense to fail closed (by default it fails open). If the URL databse is unavailable, the ISA firewall will not pass those requests.

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RE: Websense – Disable Internet until Database has loaded. - 18.Jul.2009 9:05:06 AM

zakfleming

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How would i go about this please?

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RE: Websense – Disable Internet until Database has loaded. - 20.Jul.2009 11:51:12 AM

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For ISA integrated installations, edit the wsmsp.ini file located in \Windows\System32 and set BlockOnFailure to 1. For non-integrated installations you configure the fail close setting in the management console with the other Network Agent settings.

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