• SonicOS 7 Action Objects
• App Rule Actions
  • About Action Objects
    • About System Predefined Default Action Objects
    • About Action Types for Custom Action Objects
  • About Actions Using Bandwidth Management
    • Bandwidth Management Methods
  • Creating an Action Object
  • Modifying an Action Object
  • Related Tasks for Actions Using Packet Monitoring
• Content Filter Actions
  • About Content Filter Objects
  • About CFS Action Objects
  • About the Passphrase Feature
  • About the Confirm Feature
  • About UUIDs for CFS Objects
  • Managing CFS Action Objects
    • About the CFS Action Objects Table
    • Configuring CFS Action Objects
      • Block Option
      • Passphrase Option
      • Confirm Option
      • BWM Option
      • Threat API Option
    • Editing CFS Action Objects
    • Deleting CFS Action Objects
    • Applying Content Filter Objects
• SonicWall Support
  • About This Document

Creating an Action Object

SonicOS has a number of default predefined action objects, as described in About System Predefined Default Action Objects. These action objects cannot be modified or deleted.

If you do not want one of the predefined actions, you can configure an Action Object. The Action Object Settings Object dialog, shown below, provides a way to customize a configurable action with text or a URL. You can select any of the action types available in the Action drop-down list. The predefined actions plus any configurable actions that you have created are available for selection when you create an App Rules policy.

To configure an Action Object:

1. Navigate to Object > Action Objects > App Rule Actions.
2. At the top of the page above the table, click Add.
3. In the Action Object Settings dialog, type a descriptive name in the Action Name field.
4. In the Action drop-down menu, select the action type that you want.
5. In the Content field, type the text or URL to be used in the action.

6. If HTTP Block Page was selected as the action type, the options change.

   1. In the Content field, enter the content to be displayed when a page is blocked.

   2. From the Color drop-down menu, choose a background color for the block page:

      • White
      • Yellow
      • Red
      • Blue
   3. To preview the block page message, click the Preview button.
7. If Bandwidth Management was selected as the action type, the options change. For configuring these options, see About Actions Using Bandwidth Management.
8. Click OK.