Viewing the Access Log

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can change the password by clicking Change Password and entering the new password.

10If you want to test and upload the Access Log now, click FTP Now. Enter a filename for the log and click OK. The filename can only contain alphanumeric and . (dot), - (hyphen) or _ (underscore) characters and can only be up to 32 characters in length.

Clicking FTP Now will immediately FTP the currently active Access Log to the FTP server. This allows you to test your FTP settings or to save the Access Log without waiting for the next automatic FTP. Since the Webcache may still be writing to the Access Log, using FTP Now may result in an incomplete record at the end of the saved Access Log.

If no client machines have accessed a Web site through the Webcache before you click FTP Now, then an empty log file will be saved on the FTP server.

Viewing the Access To view the Access Log using the Web interface:

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1Log in to the Web interface.

2Click Device View on the Toolbar.

3Select System -> Caching -> View Access Log in the Navigation Tree.

4The last 256 lines of the Access Log are displayed.

Click Refresh to update the information that is displayed.

If the Webcache is deployed in Proxy mode, multiple entries for the pages in the Web interface itself will be made in the Access Logs. This is standard behavior for the Webcache, as it is "seeing" the requests for the Web interface pages and logging these requests in the Access Logs. You should either leave the Web Interface open for only short periods of time to reduce the entries made, or use a log analyzer tool such as Webtrends to view and analyze the Access Logs.

Analyzing the

The access logs that have been saved on the FTP server are based on the

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native Squid format. This is optimized for efficient generation and can be

 

analyzed using a wide variety of off-the-shelf log analysis tools.