There is a trick with "Uncategorized" as there is a Category named "Uncategorized" and there are sites that are "Uncategorized" because no Category has been determined for the site.
Cheers - Bob
Sophos UTM Community Moderator Sophos Certified Architect - UTM Sophos Certified Engineer - XG Gold Solution Partner since 2005
I have to quibble Bob. I just rechecked and I have only one type of Uncategorized in the administrative interface for web proxy
Perhaps you were remembering that there are options for both "Uncategorized" and "Categorization Failure". The latter would mean that the Categorization database is not reachable.
Assuming that you're not looking at Sophos at home because I haven't seen that but there should be a catergory selector for "Uncategorized websites" at the bottom of the Categories tab in your filter action. This is where you set whether to allow or block uncategorized sites.
However I'd be wary of doing that big bang so to speak. You'll block a lot of legitimate sites. Just run a few reports on activity logged against the Uncategorized category and you'll see just how many sites are still in that default category.
Again, guys, there is a sub-category "Uncategorized" that you can select when you define a new Category on the 'Categories' tab in 'Web Filtering Options'. This is an assigned category, not the lack of any category assignment.
At the bottom of the Categories section of a Filter Action, you can select to Allow 'Uncategorized websites'. These are sites that have had no category assigned. They haven't even been assigned 'Uncategorized'. Perhaps this is what you mean as "categorization failure," Doug?
At least, that's how I've understood and used these concepts - I'd be happy to have my knife sharpened though!
Cheers - Bob
Sophos UTM Community Moderator Sophos Certified Architect - UTM Sophos Certified Engineer - XG Gold Solution Partner since 2005
