Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S690 User Guide

Updates to the URL category set are distinct from the changes that simply add new URLs and re-map 
misclassified URLs, as described in 

. Category set updates may 

change configurations in your existing policies and therefore require action from you. 

URL category set updates may occur between product releases; an AsyncOS upgrade is not required. 
Information about each update will be available from 

. 

You should take the following actions: 

 

URL category set updates can have the following impacts on existing Access Policies, Decryption 
Policies, and Cisco IronPort Data Security policies, and on Identities: 

 

This section applies to all policy types with membership that can be defined by URL category, and to 
Identities. 

When policy group membership is defined by URL category, changes to the category set may have the 
following effects: 

If the sole criterion for membership is a deleted category, the policy or identity is disabled. 

If membership in any policy is defined by a URL category that changes, and if this causes ACL list 
changes, the web proxy will restart. For the effects of proxy restarts, see 

. 

Before updates occur

(Do these tasks as part 
of your initial setup) 

After updates occur 

  

This section describes how URL category set changes impact reporting 
and web tracking data. 

Policy changes resulting from URL category set updates are logged in the 
GUI logs. See the Logging chapter for more information.