Volume 9: Managing the Blue Coat SG Appliance

authenticate-401 attribute

All transparent and explicit requests received on the port always use transparent

 

authentication (cookie or IP, depending on the configuration). This is especially

 

useful to force transparent proxy authentication in some proxy-chaining scenarios

authenticated content

Cached content that requires authentication at the origin content server (OCS).

 

Supported authentication types for cached data include basic authentication and

 

IWA (or NTLM).

authentication

Allows you to verify the identity of a user. In its simplest form, this is done through

 

usernames and passwords. Much more stringent authentication can be employed

 

using digital certificates that have been issued and verified by a Certificate Authority.

 

See also basic authentication, proxy authentication, and SSL authentication.

authentication realm

Authenticates and authorizes users to access SG services using either explicit proxy

 

or transparent proxy mode. These realms integrate third-party vendors, such as

 

LDAP, Windows, and Novell, with the Blue Coat operating system.

authorization

The permissions given to an authenticated user.

B

 

bandwidth class

A defined unit of bandwidth allocation.

bandwidth class hierarchy

Bandwidth classes can be grouped together in a class hierarchy, which is a tree

 

structure that specifies the relationship among different classes. You create a

 

hierarchy by creating at least one parent class and assigning other classes to be its

 

children.

bandwidth management

Classify, control, and, if needed, limit the amount of bandwidth used by network

 

traffic flowing in or out of an SG appliance.

basic authentication

The standard authentication for communicating with the target as identified in the

 

URL.

BCAAA

Blue Coat Authentication and Authorization Agent. Allows SGOS 5.x to manage

 

authentication and authorization for IWA, CA eTrust SiteMinder realms, Oracle

 

COREid, Novell, and Windows realms. The agent is installed and configured

 

separately from SGOS 5.x and is available from the Blue Coat Web site.

BCLP

Blue Coat Licensing Portal.

byte-range support

The ability of the SG appliance to respond to byte-range requests (requests with a

 

Range: HTTP header).

C

 

cache

An "object store," either hardware or software, that stores information (objects) for

 

later retrieval. The first time the object is requested, it is stored, making subsequent

 

requests for the same information much faster.

 

A cache helps reduce the response time and network bandwidth consumption on

 

future, equivalent requests. The SG appliance serves as a cache by storing content

 

from many users to minimize response time and prevent extraneous network traffic.

cache control

Allows you to configure which content the SG appliance stores.

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