Websense Enterprise - URL Check

[stratisphere]

Morning All,

 

A question for those who use websense (or know of it).

 

Is there a feature or tool (either embedded in the software, or downloadable) where I can put a URL into a field and it'll check our policies etc and return it's category and/or the actions for each policy?

 

All of the data is stored in XML files, so I could write a program to parse through it, but it wouldnt be live data and i'm hoping there's something already out there!

 

Cheers!

[tomscaper]

Dont know if this is any help for you, we have a cachepilot which uses smartfilter and i use this site to find catagories. sorry if its no good.

 

www.trustedsource.org

[timbo343]

We use websense.. if you change the log server to the IP address of the server where websense is installed on, and then run some program from cmd, that websense uses, you will see which category it is stored under. Best thing to do though, is put a request into websense, and ask them to help you on this. They are very helpful. I use them all the time.

 

Tim

[john]

Websense have on there website in the members area a URL checking option, enter the url in that box and say submit and it will tell you what catagory it is under, obviously you then need to know what you are blocking or not etc but may be useful for you.

[Jonesminor]

From a command prompt on the server, change to the bin folder, run websenseping...

 

websenseping.exe -t 5 -m 2 -url www.url.com

 

or create a folder on your workstaion and copy the following from the bin folder..

 

btuc320.dll

Diagnostics.dll

libeay32.dll

log4cxx.dll

ssleay32.dll

stlport_vc646.dll

stlport_vc7146.dll

WebsensePing.exe

WFCBase.dll

WFCNetwork.dll

 

I copied these files to a local folder, C:\WebsensePing, then created a batchfile, wp.bat, in my local windows folder with the following

 

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echo off
cls
C:\WebsensePing\websenseping.exe -t 5 -s 192.168.0.10 -m 2 -url %1
pause

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so from a run box I can type..

 

wp www.url.com 

and websense will return the category and disposition.

 

Just replace the ip address with your websnese server IP and if it's on a firewall, open port 15868.

 

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[stratisphere]

perfect! Thank you!

 

Just out of interest... how did you find out about that?

Edited June 23, 2008 by stratisphere
wrong smily!

[Jonesminor]

You're welcome.

 

We had some problems a while back with unexpected filtering results and need an easier way of checking categories than the web based lookup tool or trawling thorugh testlogserver results.

 

I found this on the websense site.

 

https://www.websense.com/SupportPortal/SupportKBs/1749.aspx

 

Cheers.

 

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