Cisco Cisco Firepower Management Center 4000
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FireSIGHT System User Guide
Chapter 49 Scheduling Tasks
Automating URL Filtering Updates
You can use the scheduler to automate updates of URL filtering data from the Collective Security
Intelligence Cloud. For a URL filtering update task to succeed:
Intelligence Cloud. For a URL filtering update task to succeed:
•
The Defense Center must have access to the Internet or it cannot contact the cloud.
•
You must enable URL filtering, as described in
Note that when you enable URL filtering, you can also enable automatic updates. This forces the
Defense Center to contact the cloud every 30 minutes for URL filtering data updates. If you have enabled
automatic updates, you should not create a scheduled task to update URL filtering data.
Defense Center to contact the cloud every 30 minutes for URL filtering data updates. If you have enabled
automatic updates, you should not create a scheduled task to update URL filtering data.
Although daily updates tend to be small, if it has been more than five days since your last update, new
URL filtering data may take up to 20 minutes to download, depending on your bandwidth. Then, it may
take up to 30 minutes to perform the update itself.
URL filtering data may take up to 20 minutes to download, depending on your bandwidth. Then, it may
take up to 30 minutes to perform the update itself.
To automate URL filtering data tasks:
Access:
Admin/Maint
Step 1
Select
System > Tools > Scheduling
.
The Scheduling page appears.
Step 2
Click
Add Task
.
The New Task page appears.
Step 3
From the
Job Type
list, select
Update URL Filtering Database
.
The page reloads to show the URL filtering update options.
Step 4
Specify how you want to schedule the update,
Once
or
Recurring
:
•
For one-time tasks, use the drop-down lists to specify the start date and time. The
Current Time
field
indicates the current time on the appliance.
•
For recurring tasks, you have several options for setting the interval between instances of the task.
See
See
for details.
Step 5
In the
Job Name
field, type a name using up to 255 alphanumeric characters, spaces, or dashes.
Step 6
Optionally, in the
Comment
field, type a comment using up to 255 alphanumeric characters, spaces, or
periods.
Tip
The comment field appears in the View Tasks section of the page, so you should try to keep it relatively
short.
short.
Step 7
Optionally, in the
Email Status To
field, type the email address (or multiple email addresses separated by
commas) where you want status messages sent.
You must have a valid email relay server configured to send status messages. See
for more information about configuring a relay host.
Step 8
Click
Save
.
The task is added. You can check the status of a running task on the Task Status page; see
.