Requirements:

The following requirements must be met in order for you to operate the LANCOM Content Filter:

    • The firewall must be enabled and the content-filter profile must be selected with a corresponding firewall rule.
    • The content-filter profile must specify a category profile and if desired a whitelist and/or blacklist for each part of the day. Acontent-filter profile can consist of several different entries to provide different levels of protection during different parts of the day. If a certain time span during the day does is not covered by an entry, then access to the Internet goes unchecked during this period.

If the content-filter profile is subsequently renamed, the firewall must also be modified.



Quick start:

After the LANCOM Content Filter has been installed, the settings are ready to get you started quickly.

Operation of the LANCOM Content Filter may be restricted by privacy policy in your country or by agreements within your company. Please check any regulations that may apply before putting the system into operation.


Activating the LANCOM Content Filter:

The LANCOM Content Filter is activated with the following steps:

1) Ensure that the firewall is active:

    • LANconfig: Firewall/QoS → General
    • WEBconfig: LCOS Menu Tree → Setup → IP-Router → Firewall

2) Activate the firewall rule for the LANCOM Content Filter:

    • LANconfig: Firewall/QoS → Rules
    • WEBconfig: LCOS Menu Tree → Setup → IP-Router → Firewall → Rules

3) Activate the LANCOM Content Filter:

    • LANconfig: Content Filter → General
    • WEBconfig: LCOS Menu Tree → Setup → UTM → Content-Filter → Operating

By default the LANCOM Content Filter is equipped with three category profiles. You can modify these category profiles to match your requirements under:

  • LANconfig: Content Filter → Profiles → Categories
  • WEBconfig: LCOS Menu Tree → Setup → UTM → Content-Filter → Profiles → Profiles

The profile category 'DEFAULT' is assigned to the 'DEFAULT' content-filter profile and has the time frame "ALWAYS". If you want to make changes to the time frame, learn more under 'Time-frame settings for the LANCOM Content Filter'.