Application-based configuration is the middle level of policy configuration on the POLICY | Rules and Policies > App Control | Signatures page, between the category-based and signature-based levels.
This configuration method allows you to create policy rules specific to a single application if you want to enforce the policy settings only on the signatures of this application without affecting other applications in the same category.
To configure an App Control policy for a specific application
Select an application from the Application drop-down menu (if you did not select a category, the category changes to that of the selected application). The Configure button to the right of the field is enabled as soon as an application is selected.
Click Configure to display the App Control App Settings dialog for the selected application.
If the application’s Block setting is set to Use Category Setting:
To prevent the category settings from overriding your settings for the application, change the Block setting here to Enabled or Disabled, as desired, and update any other settings in this dialog to the specific values that you want.
The fields at the top of the dialog, App Category and App Name, are not editable. The other settings default to the current settings of the category to which the application belongs. To retain this connection to the category settings for one or more fields, leave this selection in place for those fields.
By default, the Log Redundancy Filter has the Use Category Settings option selected; the field is dimmed and cannot be changed. To specify a different delay between log entries for repetitive events:
Clear the Use Global Settings checkbox. The field becomes available.
Enter the number of seconds for the delay into the Log Redundancy Filter field. The minimum number of seconds is 0 (no delay), the maximum is 999999, and the default is 0.