Templates

Use the Web Reputation Blocked-Approved List Wizard to create and maintain global lists of websites in the form of templates that you can use to control your users’ web access. After these templates are defined, use them to create Custom Tasks which you can then apply to your endpoints. There are two types of URL lists that you can create and group into templates using the Wizard:
Blocked Lists
Lists of blocked websites. If the endpoint tries to access a site in one of these lists, they receive a message in their web browser indicating that access to the site is blocked.
Approved Lists
Lists of websites you allow your endpoints to access without restriction.
Note: Use care when selecting sites for Approved Lists. After a site is added to an Approved List, it is no longer checked. Therefore, endpoints connecting to that site would no longer be protected by Web Reputation, should that site become a host for malware at some point in the future.

By creating multiple tasks, you can apply different sets of Blocked and Approved List templates to different users or groups of users. You can perform the following tasks:

  • Create and deploy a New Blocked or Approved List template.
  • Create and deploy a New Blocked or Approved List template by importing an existing list.
  • View an existing Blocked or Approved List template.
  • Copy a Blocked or Approved List template.
  • Copy and edit a Blocked or Approved List template.
  • Delete a Blocked or Approved List template.

Create and Deploy a New Template

  1. From the IBM BigFix Console, click Endpoint Protection on the lower left pane.
  2. From the upper-left navigation pane, go to Core Protection Module > Configuration > Web Reputation Blocked-Approved List > Web Reputation Blocked-Approved List Wizard. The Web Reputation Blocked-Approved List Wizard window opens, showing a list of your currently available templates.
  3. Click Add Template. The Blocked-Approved List Template–Add Template page opens.
  4. Enter a name for your template in the Template Name field.
  5. In the Blocked List pane, enter or copy and paste the URLs you want to block. Enter up to 500 URLs. Place http:// or https:// before each URL entry. To block all the pages for a site, enter the name of the domain followed by /*. For example: 
    http://www.badURL.com/*
    Note: You can include up to 500 URLs in a single template, and can create multiple templates for use. However, only one template can be active on an endpoint at the same time.

  6. To enter an Approved List, in the Approved List pane, type or copy and paste the URLs you want your users to be able to access without restriction. You can enter up to 499 URLs per template. You also must have http:// or https:// before each URL entry. To grant access to all the pages on a site, enter the name of the domain followed by /*. For example: 
    http://www.goodURL.com/*
  7. When you are finished creating your template, click Save. The Blocked-Approved List Templates window returns.
  8. Click the Create Task From Template... button. The Edit Task window opens.
  9. Click OK.
  10. Click the hyperlink in the Actions window. The Take Action window opens.
  11. Select the computer or computers in the window to which you want to deploy your Blocked / Approved List template and set any wanted options.
  12. When you have finished selecting options, click OK.
  13. In the Action | Summary window that opens, monitor the "Status" and "Count" of the Action to confirm that it is "Running" and then "Completed."