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preventing you from using the Web interface.You can regain access by either:

Changing the client machine’s browser settings to remove the use of the Webcache as a proxy or

Using a browser on a client machine whose IP address is not blocked by Web Client Blocking to access the Web Interface.

 

CAUTION: If you are using Browser Auto-Configuration Files to configure

 

your client machine Web browser settings, and you are using Web Client

 

Blocking to control access to the Internet, you should ensure that Go

 

Direct if no Webcache Available is not checked in the Browser

 

Auto-Configuration screen. If this box is checked, the Web browser will

 

bypass the Webcache entirely after reading the Browser

 

Auto-Configuration file, and will never be blocked. For more information,

 

see “Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) File Scripts” on page 50.

 

 

What is Access

Access Logging allows you to track which client machines have accessed

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which Web sites through the Webcache. By default Access Logging is

 

disabled. If you enable Access Logging you must specify a FTP server that

 

you want to periodically save the log to. The log is saved to the FTP server

 

whenever the log is approaching full, or every 6 hours, whichever comes

 

first. You can see a complete history of every web request made through

 

the Webcache by combining all the FTPed logs; the saved logs are based

 

on the standard Squid access log format and can be analyzed using

 

off-the-shelf log analysis tools.

 

An SNMP trap is automatically generated if the Webcache fails to save

 

the access log to the FTP server.

 

The access logs contain the following fields:

 

Table 10 Access Log Fields

 

 

 

 

Field

Description

 

 

 

 

Time

A timestamp expressed as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) with a

 

 

millisecond resolution.

 

Elapsed

The amount of time in milliseconds that the Webcache took to serve

 

 

the request.

 

Client

The IP address of the requesting client machine.

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