Appendix A: Glossary
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access control list | Allows or denies specific IP addresses access to a server. |
access log | A list of all the requests sent to an appliance. You can read an access log using any of |
| the popular |
| streaming entry goes to the same access log. |
account | A named entity that has purchased the appliance or the Entitlements from Blue Coat. |
activation code | A string of approximately 10 characters that is generated and mailed to customers |
| when they purchase the appliance. |
active content stripping | Provides a way to identify potentially dangerous mobile or active content and |
| scripts, and strip them out of a response. |
active content types | Used in the Visual Policy Manager. Referring to Web Access policies, you can create |
| and name lists of active content types to be stripped from Web pages. You have the |
| additional option of specifying a customized message to be displayed to the user |
administration access policy | A policy layer that determines who can access the SG appliance to perform |
| administrative tasks. |
administration | A policy layer that determines how administrators accessing the SG appliance must |
authentication policy | authenticate. |
Application Delivery | A WAN that has been optimized for acceleration and compression by Blue Coat. This |
Network (ADN) | network can also be secured through the use of appliance certificates. An ADN |
| network is composed of an ADN manager and backup ADN manager, ADN nodes, |
| and a network configuration that matches the environment. |
ADN backup manager | Takes over for the ADN manager in the event it becomes unavailable. See ADN |
| manager. |
ADN manager | Responsible for publishing the routing table to SG Clients (and to other SG |
| appliances). |
ADN optimize attribute | Controls whether to optimize bandwidth usage when connecting upstream using an |
| ADN tunnel. |
asx rewrite | Allows you to rewrite URLs and then direct a client's subsequent request to the new |
| URL. One of the main applications of ASX file rewrites is to provide explicit proxy- |
| like support for Windows Media Player 6.4, which cannot set explicit proxy mode for |
| protocols other than HTTP. |
audit | A log that provides a record of who accessed what and how. |
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