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SonicOS 5.8.1 Administrator Guide
To create a new BWM action:
Step 1 Navigate to the Firewall > Action Objects page in the SonicOS management interface.
Step 2 Click the Add New Action Object button, the Add/Edit Action Object window displays.
Step 3 Enter a descriptive Action Name for this action.
Step 4 Select ‘Bandwidth Management’ from the Action dropdown list.
Step 5 Select from the Bandwidth Aggregation Method dropdown list:
a. Per Policy - to apply this limit to each individual policy.
b. Per Action - to share this action limit across all policies to which it is applied.
Step 6 Create the desired settings for Inbound Bandwidth Management and Outbound Bandwidth
Management.
Step 7 Click the OK button to create this object.
Create an Application Control Policy to Manage Non-Productive Content
Create an Application Control policy to block content defined in the Application Object:
Step 1 Navigate to the Firewall > App Rules page in the SonicOS management interface.
Step 2 Click the Add Policy button, the Add/Edit Application Firewall Policy window displays.
Step 3 Enter a descriptive name for this action in the Policy Name field.
Step 4 Select ‘CFS’ from the Policy Type dropdown list.
Step 5 From the Application Object dropdown list, select the object you created in the previous
section. In the case of our example, this object is named ‘Nonproductive Content’.
Step 6 From the Action dropdown list, select ‘Bandwidth Management - 100k’ to apply this custom
BWM rule when users attempt to access non-productive content.