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13.2 Local user accounts

Quota exceed action

Set actions which will be taken whenever a quota is exceeded:

•Block any further traffic — the user will be allowed to continue using the opened connections, however, will not be allowed to establish new connections (i.e. to connect to another server, download a file through FTP, etc.)

•Don’t block further traffic (Only limit bandwidth...) — Internet connection speed (so called bandwidth) will be limited for the user. Traffic will not be blocked but

the user will notice that the Internet connection is slower than usual (this should make such users to reduce their network activities). For detailed information, see chapter 7.

Check the Notify user by email when quota is exceeded option to enable sending of warning messages to the user in case that a quota is exceeded. A valid email address must be specified for the user (see Step 1). SMTP Relay must be set in WinRoute (see chapter 16.4).

If you wish that your WinRoute administrator is also notified when a quota is almost exceeded, set the alert parameters in Configuration → Accounting. For details, refer to chapter 17.3.

Notes:

1.If a quota is exceeded and the traffic is blocked in result, the restrictions will continue being applied until the end of the quota period (day or month). To cancel these restrictions before the end of a corresponding period, the follow- ing actions can be taken:

•disable temporarily a corresponding limit, raise its value or switch to the Don’t block further traffic mode

•reset statistics of a corresponding user (see chapter 18.2).

2.Actions for quota-exceeding are not applied if the user is authenticated at the firewall. This would block all firewall traffic as well as all local users. However, transferred data is included in the quota!

HINT: Data transfer quota and actions applied in response can also be set by a user account template.

Step 5 — content rules

Within this step special content filter rules settings for individual users can be defined. Global rules (defined in the Content Rules tab in the Configuration → Content Filtering

→HTTP Policy section) are used as default (when a new user account is defined). For details, see chapter 10.3.

Note: These settings can be customized at a corresponding page of the WinRoute’s Web interface (see chapter 9.4). If the user can override content rules, any changes can be

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