Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S670 User Guide

The Web Security appliance uses the first four characters of custom URL category names preceded by 
“c_” in the access logs. Consider the custom URL category name if you use Sawmill to parse the access 
logs. If the first four characters of the custom URL category include a space, Sawmill cannot properly 
parse the access log entry. Instead, only use supported characters in the first four characters. If you want 
to include the full name of a custom URL category in the access logs, add the %XF format specifier to 
the access logs. 

 

Go to Security Services > Acceptable Use Controls to enable Acceptable Use Controls.

Choose Web Security Manager > Custom URL Categories.

To create a custom URL category, click Add Category. To edit an existing custom URL category, click 
the name of the URL category.

Provide the following information. 

Category Name

Enter an identifier for this URL category. This name appears when you 
configure URL filtering for policy groups.

List Order

Specify the order of this category in the list of custom URL categories. Enter 
“1” for the first URL category in the list.

The URL filtering engine evaluates a client request against the custom URL 
categories in the order specified.