Document Outline

• Contents
• List of Procedures
• Preface
  • Who should read this manual
  • Conventions used in this manual
• 1 Overview
  • What is Traffic Server?
  • Traffic Server deployment options
    • Traffic Server as a web proxy cache
    • Traffic Server as a reverse proxy
    • Traffic Server in a cache hierarchy
    • Traffic Server in a cluster
  • Traffic Server components
    • The Traffic Server cache
      • RAM cache
    • The Adaptive Redirection Module (ARM)
    • The Host Database
    • The DNS Resolver
    • Traffic Server processes
    • Administration tools
  • Traffic analysis options
  • Traffic Server security options
• 2 Getting Started
  • Overview of Access Methods
  • Verifying that Traffic Server is up and running
  • Accessing Traffic Manager
    • Using the Monitor and Configure tabs
    • Using online help
  • Starting Traffic Line
  • Restarting Traffic Server
• 3 Web Proxy Caching
  • Understanding web proxy caching
    • A day in the life of a cache request
  • Ensuring cached object freshness
    • Revalidating HTTP objects
    • HTTP object freshness tests
    • Deciding whether to serve HTTP objects
    • Configuring HTTP freshness options
      • Configuring HTTP revalidation
      • Configuring HTTP cachability
    • Caching HTTP alternates
    • Scheduling updates to local cache content
  • News article caching
    • Traffic Server as a news server
    • Traffic Server as a caching proxy news server
    • Supporting several parent news servers
      • Several news servers supplying the same groups
      • Several servers supplying different groups
      • NNTP cache hierarchies
      • Nonstandard ports and network interfaces
    • Blocking particular groups
    • Clustering
    • Transparency
    • Posting
    • Maintaining the cache: updates and feeds
    • Configuring access control
    • Using enhanced NNTP authentication
    • Obeying NNTP control messages
    • Client bandwidth throttling
• 4 Transparent Proxy Caching
  • Serving requests transparently
  • ARM redirection
  • Interception strategies
    • Using a layer 4 switch with cache switching functionality to filter transparency requests
    • Using a WCCP-enabled router for transparency
      • Enabling WCCP on Traffic Server
      • ARM bypass and WCCP
      • About WCCP load balancing
    • Using policy-based routing to filter transparency requests
  • Interception bypass
    • Dynamic bypass rules
      • Setting dynamic bypass rules
      • Viewing dynamic bypass statistics
    • Static bypass rules
    • Viewing the current set of bypass rules
    • Configuring ARM security
• 5 Reverse Proxy and HTTP Redirects
  • Understanding reverse proxy caching
    • Reverse proxy solutions
      • Off loading heavily used origin servers
      • Delivering content in geographically dispersed areas
      • Providing security for an origin server
    • How does reverse proxy caching work?
  • HTTP Reverse Proxy
    • Handling origin server redirect responses
    • Using mapping rules
      • Map rules
      • Reverse-map rules
      • Setting map and reverse-map rules
    • Setting HTTP reverse proxy options
  • FTP Reverse Proxy
    • Configuring FTP Reverse Proxy
    • Setting FTP Mapping Rules
    • Enabling FTP Reverse Proxy
    • Modifying FTP Options
  • Redirecting HTTP Requests
• 6 Traffic Server Clusters
  • Understanding Traffic Server clusters
    • Management-only clustering
    • Full clustering
    • Changing clustering mode
  • Adding and deleting nodes in a cluster
    • Adding nodes to a cluster
    • Deleting nodes from a cluster
  • Virtual IP failover
    • What are virtual IP addresses?
    • Setting virtual IP address options
      • Enabling/disabling virtual IP addressing
      • Adding and editing virtual IP addresses
• 7 Hierarchical Caching
  • Understanding cache hierarchies
  • HTTP cache hierarchies
    • Parent failover
    • Configuring Traffic Server to use an HTTP parent cache
      • Enabling the HTTP parent caching option
      • Identifying HTTP parent caches
  • ICP cache hierarchies
    • Configuring Traffic Server to use an ICP cache hierarchy
      • Identifying ICP Peers
• 8 Configuring the cache
  • The Traffic Server Cache
    • RAM cache
  • Partitioning the cache
    • Creating cache partitions for specific protocols
      • Making changes to partition sizes and protocols
    • Partitioning the cache according to origin server or domain
  • Clearing the cache
• 9 Monitoring Traffic
  • Traffic Server monitoring tools
  • Viewing statistics from Traffic Manager
    • Starting Traffic Manager Monitor mode
    • Using Monitor mode
      • The Dashboard button
      • The Node button
      • The Graphs button
      • The Protocols button
      • The Cache button
      • The Other button
      • The MRTG button
  • Working with Traffic Manager Alarms
    • Resolving alarms
    • Configuring Traffic Server to E-mail alarms
  • Viewing Statistics from Traffic Line
    • Viewing groups of statistics
      • Starting Monitor mode
      • Navigating Monitor mode
    • Retrieving individual statistics
  • Using MRTG
    • Accessing MRTG
    • Navigating MRTG
  • Using SNMP
    • Enabling SNMP
    • Configuring SNMP trap destinations
• 10 Configuring Traffic Server
  • Configuring Traffic Server using Traffic Manager
    • Starting Traffic Manager Configure mode
    • Using Configure mode
      • The Server button
      • The Protocols button
      • The Cache button
      • The Security button
      • The Routing button
      • The Host DB button
      • The Logging button
      • The Snapshots button
      • The Plugins button
      • The Content button
  • Configuring Traffic Server using Traffic Line
    • Starting Configure mode
    • Navigating Configure mode
    • Setting configuration options in Configure mode
    • Setting configuration options in batch mode
  • Configuring Traffic Server using configuration files
• 11 Security Options
  • Traffic Server security options
  • Controlling client access to the Traffic Server proxy cache
  • Controlling host access to the Traffic Server machine (ARM security)
  • Controlling access to Traffic Manager
    • Setting the administrator ID and password
      • If you forget the administrator password
    • Creating a list of administrator accounts
    • Controlling host access to Traffic Manager
    • Using SSL for secure administration
      • Enabling SSL
      • Accessing Traffic Manager using SSL
  • Configuring SOCKS firewall integration
    • Setting SOCKS configuration options
  • Configuring DNS server selection (split DNS)
  • Configuring LDAP-based proxy authentication
    • Configuring LDAP Authentication Bypass
  • Using SSL Termination
    • Client and Traffic Server connections
    • Traffic Server and origin server connections
• 12 Working with Log Files
  • Understanding Traffic Server log files
  • Understanding event log files
  • Managing event log files
    • Choosing the logging directory
    • Controlling logging space
    • Setting log file management options
  • Choosing event log file formats
    • Using standard formats
      • Setting standard log file format options
    • Using custom formats
      • Using traditional custom formats
      • Using XML-based custom formats
      • Creating summary log files
    • Choosing binary or ASCII
    • Using logcat to convert binary logs to ASCII
  • Rolling event log files
    • Rolled log file name format
    • Rolling intervals
    • Setting log file rolling options
  • Splitting event log files
    • NNTP log splitting
    • ICP log splitting
    • HTTP host log splitting
    • Setting log splitting options
    • Editing the log_hosts.config file
  • Collating event log files
    • Setting log collation options
    • Using a stand-alone collator
    • Recovering log files
  • Viewing logging statistics
• A Traffic Manager Statistics
  • The Dashboard page
  • The Node page
  • The Graphs page
  • The Protocols page
  • The Cache page
  • The Other page
  • The MRTG page
• B Traffic Manager Configuration Options
  • The Server Basics page
  • The Protocols page
  • The Cache page
  • The Security page
  • The Routing page
  • The Host Database page
  • The Logging page
  • The Snapshots page
  • The Plugins page
  • The Content Management page
• C Traffic Line Commands
  • Traffic Line batch mode commands
  • Traffic Line interactive mode commands
  • Traffic Line variables
    • Statistics
    • Configuration Options
• D Configuration Files
  • arm_security.config
    • Format
    • Example
  • bypass.config
    • Format
    • Example
  • cache.config
    • Format
    • Example
  • filter.config
    • Format
    • Example
  • ftp_remap.config
    • Format
    • Example
  • hosting.config
    • Format
      • Generic Partition
    • Example
  • icp.config
    • Format
    • Example
  • ip_allow.config
    • Format
    • Example
  • ldapsrvr.config
    • Format
    • Example
  • logs.config
    • Format
    • Example
    • WELF (WebTrends Enhanced Log Format)
  • log_hosts.config
    • Format
    • Example
  • logs_xml.config
    • Format
      • LogFormat
      • LogFilters
      • LogObject
    • Example
    • WELF (WebTrends Enhanced Log Format)
  • mgmt_allow.config
    • Format
    • Example
  • nntp_access.config
    • Format
  • nntp_servers.config
    • Format
    • Example
  • parent.config
    • Format
    • Example
  • partition.config
    • Format
    • Example
  • records.config
    • Format
    • Example
    • Configuration variables
  • remap.config
    • Format
    • Example
      • Reverse proxy mapping rules
      • Redirect mapping rules
  • snmpd.cnf
    • Format
    • Configuring trap destinations
    • Access control
      • Example
  • socks.config
    • Format
    • Example
  • splitdns.config
    • Format
    • Example
  • storage.config
    • Format
    • Example
  • update.config
    • Supported tag/attribute pairs
    • Format
    • Example
  • Specifying URL Regular Expressions (url_regex)
    • Example
• E Event Logging Formats
  • HP custom logging fields
  • Logging format cross reference
    • Squid logging formats
    • Netscape Common logging formats
    • Netscape Extended logging formats
    • Netscape Extended-2 logging formats
• F Traffic Server Error Messages
  • Traffic Server error messages
    • Traffic Server Notes
    • Traffic Server Process fatal
    • Traffic Server Warnings
  • Traffic Server alarm messages
  • HTML messages sent to clients
  • Standard HTTP response messages
• Glossary
• Index

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