When there are errors or warnings related to core Websense components, alert messages are listed on the Status > Alerts page in the Web Security manager. In addition, by default, short alert messages are displayed in the Health Alert Summary list at the top of the System tab of the Status > Dashboard page (see Websense Health alerts).

Errors, warnings, and messages from Websense software components, as well as database download status messages, are recorded in the websense.log file in the Websense bin directory (see The Websense log file).

For Websense software components installed on Windows machines, you can also check the Windows Event viewer. See The Windows Event Viewer.