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7.0 User Guide Policy Manager
Scanners and filters
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 Change — to change the primary and secondary actions associated with a file
filtering rule.
 Delete — to delete the file filtering rule.
Creating a new file filtering rule
1 From
Policy Manager, select a submenu item that has a file filter. The policy page for
the submenu item appears.
2 Choose a desired policy.
3 Click File Filtering. The View Settings tab for the file filtering scanner appears.
4 From the Available rules drop-down menu under File filtering rules and associated actions,
choose
Create new rule. The File Filtering Rule page appears.
5 Enter a unique Rule name. Give the rule, a meaningful name, so that you can easily
identify it and what it does.
For example, FilesOver5MB.
6 In
Filename filtering, select Enable file name filtering to enable file filtering according to
the file names.
For example, if you type *.exe, this file filtering rule is applied to any file that has a
.exe file name extension.
7 In
Take action when the file name matches, specify the names of the files that are affected
by this rule.
You can use the * and ? wildcard characters to match multiple filenames. For
example, if you want to filter out executable files, type *.exe.
8 Click
Add to add the file names to the filtering list or Delete to remove file names from
the filtering list.
9 In File category filtering, select Enable file category filtering to enable file filtering according
to their file type.
10 In
Take action when the file category is, specify the type of files that are affected by this
rule.
Note
For more information on changing the primary and secondary actions associated with a
file filtering rule, refer to Primary and secondary file filtering actions on page 127
Note
File types are divided into categories and subcategories.