Is your allowed website not being allowed or is not displaying properly? Are you trying to identify what website BrowseControl is blocking?
BrowseControl has a built-in option to help you find out what websites BrowseControl is blocking. This option is disabled by default because it logs a lot of entries on your computer. It is recommended that you disable this option after troubleshooting your issue.
- On the CurrentWare Console choose Settings from the left-hand menu.
- Click on “BrowseControl” from the Settings menu then the Client Settings tab.
- Check the option “Enable logging of blocked URLs“.
On the cwClient Computer
- Browse to the website that you are having issues with.
- Go to the Clients log folder. In most cases it is located here: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wcsystck\Logs
- Check the cwBlockedURL.log file to see the most recent blocks and time-stamps.
- Apply the URLs that appear to be getting blocked when trying to access your page to your allowed list in BrowseControl.
- On the CurrentWare Console, select the folder your computers are under.
- Click on “BrowseControl Client Settings” from the menu on the right-hand side
- Check the option “Enable logging of blocked URLs“.
On the cwClient Computer
- Browse to the website that you are having issues with.
- Go to the Clients log folder. In most cases it is located here: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wcsystck\Logs
- Check the BlockedURL.log file to see the most recent blocks and time-stamps.
- Apply the URLs that appear to be getting blocked when trying to access your page to your allowed list in BrowseControl.
Go back to the cwConsole
- Select the affected computer
- Click on Tools > Troubleshooting > View Blocked URL log
- Add the blocked websites to the URL Filter’s Allowed list
