Use the Filtering Test section on the Policies page to check how your policies handle a request for a URL. You can also test particular situations that may be
causing issues for your end users, such as including a user name or user agent header.
To run the test:
Steps
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Under Filtering Test, enter the full URL that you want to test, including the http:// or https:// prefix.
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Optionally, enter the email address of an end user registered or synchronized with your account.
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Specify the Egress point for the test. By default this is the current IP address that you have used to access the cloud portal. You can also use:
- Other IP to specify a different IP address that is registered as a proxied connection in one of your policies
Note: If you select Other IP and
then enter an IP address that is not associated with your account, an error message results.
- Unknown IP to test a roaming user scenario
- Edge device or Appliance to test connections forwarded to the cloud by an on-premises network device
If you have defined
internal networks for your network device, you can optionally also specify the internal IP address that you want to test.
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To identify a particular user agent that may be causing policy enforcement issues, mark Specify user agent header and enter the user agent string in the
field provided.
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Click Test.
The results pop-up window displays the following information:
- The details that you entered, including the user email address and user agent if defined
- The policy applied, as derived from the source IP address that you selected
- The category or categories that contain the URL
- The action applied to the URL by this policy
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Click Close when you are done.