Technical Tip: FortiGuard category based filter with exclusion

[jkoay]

Description
This article describes how to exclude specific application signature ID in a specific application category while having all applications in the category blocked.

Solution

Below is an example of blocking all Proxy applications while excluding HTTP.Proxy application signature.

# config application list
    edit Exclude_HTTP_Proxy
# config entries
    edit 1
        set category 6
        set exclusion 107347980
        set action block
    end
end