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Geolocation Restrictions

You can set rules that allow or block access to the CASG console based on the country from which the connection attempt is made.

Geolocation restriction policy applies to admins and users that has the selected domain in their user ID.

Create a geolocation policy

Click 'Incoming' on the left then click 'Geolocation restrictions':

The 'Geolocation restrictions' interface for the domain opens:

Enable geolocation restrictions - Activate location based access restrictions. If enabled, administrators need to add restriction rules.

From the interface, you can:

Add geolocation restriction rule

Edit a geolocation restriction rule

Delete a geolocation restriction rule

Import geolocations from a CSV file

Export geolocation list as a CSV file

Add a new geolocation restriction policy

Click the 'Add' button

The 'Add country restriction' dialog appears:

Select the countries from the 'Choose country' drop-down

Note – Use any one option only, select either ‘Accept’ or ‘Reject’. ‘Accept’ option overrides ‘Reject’ option. For example, you choose to allow admins and users from US and reject from Sudan. CASG allows access from US only and denies access from all other countries irrespective of how many countries you rejected.

Choose the geolocation restriction policy for accessing the CASG web interface

Accept - Admins and users from these countries are allowed to access the domain management interface. If you select this, admins and users from all other countries are automatically rejected from accessing CASG.

Reject - Admins and users from these countries are not allowed to access the domain management interface. If you select this, make sure you have not opted for ‘Accept’ for any country in the list.

Click 'Save' to create the policy.

Edit a geolocation restriction policy

Select the restriction rule that you want to update and click the 'Edit' button

The ‘Edit country restriction’ dialog is shown:

Update as required and click the 'Save' button for the changes to take effect.

Note – Use any one option only, select either ‘Accept’ or ‘Reject’ in the list. ‘Accept’ option overrides ‘Reject’ option. For example, you choose to allow admins and users from US and reject from Sudan. CASG allows access from US only and denies access from all other countries irrespective of how many countries you rejected.

Delete a geolocation restriction policy

Select the policy that you want to remove from the list and click the 'Delete' button

Click 'OK' to confirm the removal of the selected geolocation restriction rule from the list

The rule will be removed from the list.

Import geolocations from a CSV file

You can add many geolocations at a time by importing from a file. The country codes and values should be saved in 'comma separated value' (CSV) as shown below:

us,accept

tj,reject