Issue

• Log all websites blocked by a Web control rule when visited by endpoints running ESET Endpoint Security 
• Create a new ESET Remote Administrator Dashboard report for blocked URLs

Solution

I. Create a new Web control rule

If you have already created a Web control rule and want to create a Dashboard report, first make sure to change each rule's Logging severity to Warning (see step 5 below) and then skip to part II. 

1. Open ESET Remote Administrator Web Console (ERA Web Console) in your web browser and log in. How do I open ERA Web Console?

2. Click Admin  → Policies.
    
3. Select the appropriate policy and click the gear icon  → Edit.

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4. Expand Settings and click Web and Email → Web control. Next to Rules, click Edit.

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5. Click Add (or select an existing rule and then click Edit to change the Logging severity). 

Figure 1-3

6. Type or select the appropriate settings for the rule (Name, Type, Access rights, URL). In the Logging severitydrop-down menu, select Warning and click OK.

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7. Click Save → Finish . An error message (Figure 1-5b) appears anytime a client attempts to navigate to a URL blocked by Web control. Continue to Part II.

   

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   Figure 1-5b

   For further information on creating new Web control rules, including category names, URL groups and blocked webpage message/graphic, see Create and edit Web control rules in ESET business products (6.x).

II. Create a new "Web control logs" report template in ESET Remote Administrator

1. Open ESET Remote Administrator Web Console (ERA Web Console) in your web browser and log in. How do I open ERA Web Console?

2. Click Reports .
    
3. Click Report Templates → New Report Template.
   

   

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4. In the Name field, type a name for your report.
   

   

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5. Expand Chart. In the Table section, select the check box next to Display Table.
   

   

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6. Expand Data. In the Table Columns section, click Add Column.
   

   

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7. Expand the Computer or Web control category, select the appropriate item and click OK. Repeat Steps 6 and 7 until all items listed in the table below are added to the Table Columns section and then click Finish. 
   

   

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   Category	Item
   Computer	Computer name
   Web control	Action performed
   Web control	URL
   Web control	Category
   Web control	Time of occurrence
   Web control	Number of occurrences
   Web control	User

   
   

   

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III. Add new "Web control logs" Dashboard report

1. Open ESET Remote Administrator Web Console (ERA Web Console) in your web browser and log in. How do I open ERA Web Console?

1. Click Dashboard  and then the plus icon  to add a new dashboard.

   

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2. Type a name for your new dashboard and click OK.

   

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3. Click the plus icon .

   

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4. Navigate to the report you created in Part II (Web Control Logs, in this example), select it and then click OK. Your dashboard is now available. When a URL is blocked by Web control (Figure 1-5b), each URL is listed in the new Dashboard report (Figure 3-4b).

   

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