How to Get There
Click the Server Pre-filters tab on the navigation pane on the left side of the Insite window.
What it Does
The Server Pre-filters screen allows you to specify certain actions for transactions before they are evaluated by the regular Powertech Network Security rules. The primary action is to allow or not allow a transaction — allowing it causes it to be further evaluated by Network Security rules; not allowing it is equivalent to a Network Security reject. The other actions that you can specify are to audit the transaction, send an immediate message, and capture the transaction. These actions work exactly like their equivalents within Network Security rules processing. The Server Pre-filter function allows you to specify settings by server. The default system Pre-filter record has a Server of *ALL. These records can be changed but not deleted. The system (*ALL) record must have either a 'Y' or an 'N' for each of the settings (allow, audit, message, and capture). The subsequent individual server Pre-filters can inherit from this system value.
The Pre-filter function attempts to match the most specific record to the transaction. Once a match is found, the Pre-filter function processes the transaction based on those settings.
Options
Sorting, filtering, and navigation features on this screen are described in Using the Web Browser Interface.
Click a Pre-filter to open the Edit Server Pre-filter screen where you can edit a Server Pre-filter.
Column Descriptions
Allow
The setting for whether transactions matching this record should be allowed to continue to be processed by Network Security. Valid settings are 'Y' (Yes — Network Security rules should evaluate this transaction, which may or may not cause it to be rejected, 'N' (No — reject the transaction), and a gray Y or N (inherit the value from the System (*ALL) Pre-filter).
Aud/Msg/Cap columns
A 
or 
in one of these columns indicates the value is explicitly defined in the rule. A gray 
or 
indicates the value is not defined in the Pre-filter itself, but is inheriting the actual value from the default System Pre-filter (*ALL). See Active Rule and Rule derivation.
Audit
The audit property controls the type of requests Network Security will log. Possible values are:
Log all requests by the location/server/function. Only log authority failures for the location/server/function.Message
The message property entry will determine if Network Security sends a message to the Network Security message queue.
No message is sent. A message is sent to the Network Security message queue. Capture
Capture transactions for Memorized Transaction Request (MTR).
Do not capture transactions. Capture transactions.