Configuring FreeTime...

[wpblencowe]

Nubie here again.... I created a freetime policy and when i go back to the user i don't see it in the drop down for freetime... what am i missing here 🤨

[support200]

One user has two policies. One is work-time policy and the other one is free-time policy. You have to create a new policy for your free-time and set it for a user or a group.

[wpblencowe]

so i created a new free time policy just fine.. but when i go back to 'user' it's not in the drop down list of 'freetime'.. actually what is in the freetime drop down list are all the normal policies (no freetimes)

[support200]

What do you mean by 'normal policies'? Your policies are all under 'Policy> Policy' menu. Where did you create the new policy?

Show me the capture image of your policy list on 'Policy > Policy'.

[wpblencowe]

I'm running version 4.5.2.6 on a new linux PC.. you can see in the policy i have a new free time called 'SafeNightFreeTime' and when i go back to 'User' it doesn't show up in the free time list.. the free time list is showing all the policies (not free time policies)

[support200]

On 'Policy > Free Time', you define your free time. You define 12 ~ 18 as a free time range. That's not what you want I guess.

Create a policy 'SafeNightFreeTime' on 'Policy > Policy' and set it as a free-time policy which gets applied for the free time range you defined or already defined at default.

[sywong2000]

I have the same confusion. Say from example of wpblencowe I can see the free time policies in the dropdown like SafeAllDay, SafeDay & SafeNight. But in the Policy->Policy of "SafeAllDay" how it's associated to which Freetime slot? It looks like there're no association between the Free time defined to which policy? I read the help of NxFilter appearing that's the global one. Then how can I set the Policy-level free time?

[support200]

There's no policy level free-time. You can have user level or group level free-time policy. On user edit or group edit page, you can set 2 policies. One for work-time and the other for free-time.

If there's a user named 'john200' and then you have 2 policies named p1 and p2. On the edit page for 'john200' you set p1 as his work-time policy and p2 as his free-time policy. When it's in free-time range then he gets applied with p2 policy.

[sywong2000]

OK, thanks for your explanation and now I understand. So if I set john200's free-time policy as P1, and work-time policy as P2, at the time he uses the DNS matches the free-time range, P1 will be applied to john200's traffic; and if it's out of the free-time range (work time), the P2 will be applied on john200's traffic.

Thank you!