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August 26, 2009  1:20 PM

Websense Web Filter 7.01 – Unable to download filtering database



Posted by: Jason Tramer
7.01, hot fix, known issue, unable to download filtering database, web filter, websense

I have been working with Websense to get a fix for an issue i have been having in Web filter 7.01 where I was unable to download the filtering database. This is apparently a known issue which has a hotfix. Here are the details of downloading and installing the hotfix.

August 14, 2009  8:55 PM

Setting up Websense on a Virtual machine



Posted by: Jason Tramer
ESX, port mirroring, port spanning, promiscous, virtual machine, VM, vmware, vSwitch, websense

Ok so I was setting up a Websense VM in standalone mode and there are a few things that you need to do to make this work. So, part of a Websense implementation includes setting up port spanning/mirroring on a port that connects to you monitor NIC so that it recieves all the traffic from your...


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