How to use APP Enforcement?

1. Go Security / Firewall Filters / Content Filters. Add a content filter rule and configure it as follows.

• Enter the profile name.
• Check Enabled.
• (Optional)Edit the source IP and interface if you want to apply this firewall rule to a certain IP range only. Here we leave it as Any so that the router can prevent all LAN clients from using YouTube service.
• Drag down the menu and select [APPE]YouTube. You can type the keyword on the search bar to find the related category.
• Choose Block for Action.
• Enable Syslog for monitoring and troubleshooting.

With the above configuration, LAN clients will not be able to use YouTube.

We will see the following message in the syslog when APP Enforcement is working.

1. Go to System Maintenance >> APP Signature Upgrade >> Auto APP Signature Upgrade to make sure the router has the latest version of APP Signature.

2. Go to Firewall >> Filter Setup, and click Add in the Application Filter tab

1. Give a Profile Name
2. Enable the profile
3. (optional) Set up Time Object for office hour and Source IP of specific LAN clients

3. Click Add in APP Block

1. Select the forbidden application(s).
2. Click Apply

Now we can try to open TOR browser to see if it's blocked.

Enable Syslog to print the Firewall Log. We will see the following message on the Syslog File tab when the APP filter is triggered.