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Forcing immediate URL category updates using the CLI

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You can use the url-category db force-update command to download the latest URL categories from the third-party categorization database for the first time. You can also use the url-category db force-update command if you do not want to wait for 12 hours to download latest URL categories from the third-party categorization database.

To force immediate URL category updates:
  1. Go to CLI configuration mode.

    hostname > enable
    hostname # configure terminal
  2. Specify an immediate update of all URL categories.

    hostname (config) # url-category db force-update
  3. Verify the status of the database configuration for the URL categories.

    hostname (config) # show url-category db status
         DB Version           : 3843
         URL engine version   : 4016
         Update Status        : No update in progress
         Auto update state    : Auto Update Enabled
         Update Start time    : Mon Jun  4 20:01:25 2018