NxFilter Tutorial

GUI - Policy
You can have multiple filtering policies in your network based on user and group.


Policy > Policy
When you install NxFilter, there is only one policy that is 'Default'. This policy will be applied to everybody if you don't make any change on NxFilter setup. If you want to apply a different policy for a specific user or group, you need to create another policy and enable authentication.

After you create a policy you can modify its properties.

- Priority Points

If there are multiple policies associated to one user then the policy having the biggest points will be applied.

- Enable Filter

If you disable this option there will be no blocking from the policy.

- Block All

Block everything on policy level.

- Block Unclassified

Block unclassified domains.

- Screen Time

You can allow your users to browse websites in certain categories for certain amount of time on daily basis.

- Screen Time for All

Apply Screen Time to all domains including unclassified domains.

To use Screen Time and Data Cap features, you need to enable user authentication on 'System > Setup'.

- Data Cap

You can set daily network data cap for users.

This feature requires to import NetFlow data from your router or firewall. To find out more, read Bandwidth control with NxFilter.

- Safe Search

Enforcing Safe Search against Google, Bing, Youtube.

At the moment, switching between Moderate and Strict makes difference only for Youtube.

- Block-time

You can set policy level block-time.

- Logging Only

Monitoring user activity without blocking them.

- Blocked Categories

You can block domains by categories.

- Screen Time Categories

If you check some categories in 'Screen Time Categories' then your users can access the websites in the categories for the amount of time you specified with 'Screen Time' above. When a user consumed up his screen time the DNS requests for those sites will be blocked.


Policy > Free Time
You can set two types of policies for a user based on office work hours: a work-time policy and a free-time policy. The free-time policy is applied during the free time you define in the 'Policy > Free Time'. To assign a free-time policy to a user, you must first create a user and have at least two policies.

On the group edit page, you can set a Group Specific Free Time, which will be combined with the free-time slots you set in the 'Policy > Free Time'.


Policy > NxProxy
NxProxy is a remote filtering agent for Windows. To find out more, read NxProxy and Remote filtering


Policy > CxBlock
CxBlock is a browser level filtering agent for Chrome/Edge. To find out more, read CxBlock for browser filtering