You enable URL Analysis at the NSX Edge cluster level.
- Navigate to .
- Toggle the Enable bar on the edge cluster you want to begin URL analysis on. NSX Edges require access to the Internet to download category and reputation definitions.
- Click Set to add a context profile, with a URL Category attribute. URL Analysis Profiles specify the categories of traffic to be analyzed. If no profiles are created, all traffic is analyzed. See Add a Context Profile for more details.
- Configure a Layer 7 gateway firewall rule for DNS traffic, so that URL Analysis can analyze domain information. See Create a Layer 7 DNS Rule.
- Once enabled, you can check the connection status to the cloud service for each NSX Edge Node. You can also verify the version of the URL data used.
Note: Fetching the URL data version is not supported if a proxy server is enabled in your environment. NSX Edge must have a direct connection with the cloud provider to fetch the URL data version.