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journeyman
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February 12, 2024
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Possible to restrict website access to ten minutes per hour (or similar) - quotas?

  • February 12, 2024
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I am interested to create a policy that restricts access to number of websites (eg social media, youtube shorts) to a limited period say ten minutes per hour.

A simple schedule (the first ten minutes of the hour) is not suitable, the timer should start when each user hits the policy for the first time (in each hour).

I know that quotas are usually used to restrict time and bandwidth per user, but these reset daily afaik. Or is there a way to create 24 quotas one for each hour?

 

Open to suggestions on how to achieve.

FGT60E currently running 7.0

 

Many thanks

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hjezzapaula
Staff
Staff
February 13, 2024

Hi,

with reference on below document, quotas are reset daily at midnight and access are calculated separately for each user.
https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/7.4.2/administration-guide/801136/usage-quota

You can check configuring a quota for a set of policies with specific schedule/timeslots and a different webfilter policy.

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Configuring-a-Schedule-Firewall-policy-expiration/ta-p/222790

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