Filtering Service Communication screen

If you select Linking Service for installation, the Filtering Service Communication screen appears.

Enter the IP address of the Filtering Service machine and the port Filtering Service uses to communicate with Network Agent, Content Gateway, or third-party integration products (default is 15868).

  • In an appliance-based deployment, Filtering Service is installed on all Web appliances (full policy source, user directory and filtering, and filtering only).
    • Enter the IP address of the appliance’s C interface and use the default port (15868).
    • If you have multiple appliances, be sure to select the one you want Network Agent, the filtering plug-in, or Linking Service to use.
  • The Filtering Service communication port must be in the range 1024-65535. During installation, Filtering Service may have been automatically configured to use a port other than the default. (This does not apply to appliance-based Filtering Service instances.) To verify the port:
    1. Navigate to the bin directory on the Policy Server machine (C:\Program Files\Websense\Web Security\bin or /opt/Websense/bin/, by default).
    2. Open the eimserver.ini file in a text editor.
    3. Locate the WebsenseServerPort value.
    4. When you are finished, close the file without saving. Do not modify the file.

If Filtering Service is not installed anywhere in your network, you must install it before installing Network Agent, a filtering plug-in, or Linking Service.