The Master Database is more than 1 week old

Web Security Help | Web Security Solutions | Version 7.8.x

The Websense Master Database houses the category and protocol definitions that provide the basis for managing Internet content. Websense software downloads changes to the Master Database according to the schedule defined in the Web Security manager. By default, download is scheduled to occur once a day.

To manually initiate a database download:

Go to the Status > Dashboard page, and then click Database Download.

Click Update next to the appropriate Filtering Service instance to start the database download, or click Update All to start the download on all Filtering Service machines.


	Note After downloading updates to the Master Database, CPU usage can be 90% or more for a short time while the database is loaded into local memory. It is a good idea to perform the download at off-peak times.

To continue working while the database is downloaded, click Close.

Click the Database Download button at any time to view download status.

If a new version of the Master Database adds or removes categories or protocols, administrators performing category- or protocol-related policy management tasks (like editing a category set) at the time of the download may receive errors. Although such updates are somewhat rare, as a best practice, try to avoid making changes to categories, protocols, and filters while a database is being updated.