Inquiry Regarding Layer 7 Content Filtering in Network Templates

[MerakiMaverick]

Hello Team Meraki 🙂,

I have a question regarding the Layer 7 content filtering functionality. I'm currently working on configuring an outbound Layer 7 firewall rule to block TikTok. Within an individual network, I can see the application category "Social web & photo sharing" includes TikTok as an option. However, when attempting to apply the same rule within a Network Template, the TikTok option appears to be missing.

Could you please clarify why the available application options differ between individual networks and Network Templates in the Layer 7 firewall settings?

Thank you

[alemabrahao]

Network Templates often provide a simplified or standardized subset of options to ensure compatibility across multiple devices or configurations. TikTok might be excluded from templates due to inconsistencies in how it's detected across different environments.

You can try blocking as per this other discussion.

Solved: How to block TikTok in 2022 - The Meraki Community

[RaphaelL · Accepted solution]

NBAR is not supported/working correctly in templates. It has been years like that so I suppose that they not trying to "fix" it.