Bloxx Web filter Zones

[stujham]

Love the use of Bloxx web filter zones as it allows relaxing certain sites for classroom computers as needed such as Youtube etc while maintaining your main Filter Policies across the campus.

 

The down side to this is adding each computer to a zone individually which can be time consuming and tedious when you have multiple classrooms to add with 20+ computers, is there any way of creating a computer group in AD and just adding the computer group to the zone?

 

Anyone had much dealings here or any idea's of how you would get around this?

 

Thanks

 

Ste

[clareq]

I've just done it, fortunately only for one classroom. You can add individual computers, or a subnet. There is no option for a security group or OU. I suppose you could set reservations in DHCP so each computer is in it's own subnet.

[stujham]

Yes, done exactly same along with the wireless zones.

Reservations are not an option as very messy to administer given the changes required for certain zones, security groups are easier to work with along with the adding or deleting members.

 

Would be nice for Bloxx to look at for future releases.

 

Thanks

Ste

[grant_girdwood]

Thanks for the feedback, will pass this on internally and hope to have this pushed out in 2015