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User Name Lists

A User Name List is a group of user names to whom you want to apply a common policy. User Name Lists could represent common users within your organization. For example:

• Functional groupings, such as a Sales Team or a regional office.
• Role-oriented groupings, such as Managers.
• Relational groupings, such as Company Partners.

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• User Name Lists

  User Name Lists are used by the Gateway as the 'endpoint' of a web policy route between your organization and an Internet Zone. For example, a Web Policy Route might be defined between Managers and Inappropriate Sites.

• Static Lists and LDAP Synchronized Lists

  There are two types of list:

  • Static User Name List

    The entries in a Static User Name List are defined and maintained by a local administrator. You can import lists of users and addresses into a Static User Name List from a text file.

  • LDAP Synchronized User Name List

    An LDAP Synchronized List is synchronized with an LDAP server containing your user information. The LDAP User Name List is refreshed automatically by the Gateway once every twenty four hours.

  User Name Lists are used by the Gateway as the 'endpoint' of a web policy route between your organization and an Internet Zone. For example, a Web Policy Route might be defined between Managers and Inappropriate Sites.

• Managing Static Lists

  You can build your own static lists, import data and manage multiple lists. See Create and Modify a Static List for more information.

• Managing LDAP Synchronized Lists

  LDAP Lists enable you to manage your user information dynamically from an LDAP Server, See Create and Modify an LDAP List for more information.

See also...

• Policy References