Schedules; Creating One-Time Schedules - D-Link DFL-500 User Manual

Adding a service group:

Schedules

Use scheduling to control when policies are active or inactive. You can create one-time schedules and
recurring schedules. You can use one-time schedules to create policies that are effective once only for the
period of time specified in the schedule. Recurring schedules repeat weekly. You can use recurring schedules
to create policies that are effective only at specified times of the day or on specified days of the week.
In some cases, you may be required to create multiple schedules to schedule a policy to be active for more
than a single day. For example, for a policy to be valid from Monday at 5:00 pm until Tuesday at 9:00 am, you
must create two schedules and then two policies, one for each schedule. The first schedule should run from
Monday evening at 5:00 pm until midnight and the second from midnight until 9:00 am on Tuesday morning.
This section describes:
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Creating one-time schedules

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Creating recurring schedules
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Applying a schedule to a policy
Creating one-time schedules
You can create a one-time schedule that activates or deactivates a policy for a specified period of time. For
instance, your firewall may be configured with the default Internal to External policy that allows access to all
services on the Internet at all times. You can add a one-time schedule to block access to the Internet during a
holiday period. The following procedure describes how to create a one-time schedule with a start date at the
start of the holiday and an end date at the end of the holiday.
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Go to Firewall > Schedule > One-time .
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Click New.
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Specify a name for the schedule.
The name can contain numbers (0-9) and upper and lower case letters (A-Z, a-z), and the special
characters - and _. Spaces and the @ character are not allowed.
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Specify the Start date and time for the schedule.
Set start and stop times to 00 for the schedule to cover the entire day.
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