Description
To increase productivity or set stricter rules, network administrators can apply firewall policies to restrict specific application to be accessed under certain time schedules only.
For example, an admin wants to restrict Internet access only during weekdays and for a specific amount of time:
Solution
To prevent the above behavior, the firewall policy setting 'schedule-timeout' will explicitly terminates all active sessions exactly on the upper limit of the configured schedule.
To increase productivity or set stricter rules, network administrators can apply firewall policies to restrict specific application to be accessed under certain time schedules only.
For example, an admin wants to restrict Internet access only during weekdays and for a specific amount of time:
From the above configuration, traffic towards Internet could not traverse the firewall outside of 08:00 – 17:00.
However, sessions which have been initiated just before 17:00 will bypass the schedule and will be closed only when user terminates them or if they eventually timeout.
However, sessions which have been initiated just before 17:00 will bypass the schedule and will be closed only when user terminates them or if they eventually timeout.
Solution
To prevent the above behavior, the firewall policy setting 'schedule-timeout' will explicitly terminates all active sessions exactly on the upper limit of the configured schedule.
