Content Filtering; Enabling Content Filtering; Enabling Content Filtering For A Wireless Profile - Aruba IAP-335 User Manual

Content Filtering

The content filtering feature allows you to route DNS requests to the OpenDNS platform and create content
filtering policies.
With content filter, you can achieve the following:
Allow all DNS requests to the non-corporate domains on a wireless or wired network to be sent to the
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OpenDNS server. When the OpenDNS credentials are configured, the IAP uses these credentials to access
OpenDNS and provide enterprise-level content filtering. For more information, see
Credentials on page
Block certain categories of websites based on your organization policy. For example, if you block the web-
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based-email category, clients who are assigned this policy will not be able to visit email-based websites
such as mail.yahoo.com.
Prevent known malware hosts from accessing your wireless network.
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Improve employee productivity by limiting access to certain websites.
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Reduce bandwidth consumption significantly.
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Regardless of whether content filtering is disabled or enabled, the DNS requests to
http://instant.arubanetworks.com
The content filtering configuration applies to all IAPs in the network and the service is enabled or disabled
globally across the wireless or wired network profiles.

Enabling Content Filtering

This section describes the following procedures:
Enabling Content Filtering for a Wireless Profile on page 195
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Enabling Content Filtering for a Wired Profile on page 195
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Enabling Content Filtering for a Wireless Profile

To enable content filtering for a wireless SSID, perform the following steps:
In the Instant UI
1. Select a wireless profile in the Network tab and then click the edit link. The window for editing the WLAN
SSID profile is displayed.
2. Click Show advanced options.
3. Select Enabled from the Content Filtering drop-down list, and click Next to continue.
You can also enable content filtering while adding a new wireless profile. For more information, see
WLAN Settings for an SSID Profile on page
In the CLI
To enable content filtering on a WLAN SSID:
(Instant AP)(config)# wlan ssid-profile <name>
(Instant AP)(SSID Profile <name>)# content-filtering
(Instant AP)(SSID Profile <name>)# end
(Instant AP)# commit apply
Enabling Content Filtering for a Wired Profile
To enable content filtering for a wired profile, perform the following steps:
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are always resolved internally on Instant.
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Configuring OpenDNS
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