[squid-users] What do you recommend?
Hi, I have several aborted attempts to get what I want to do to work and have failed miserably every time, so I thought I would ask you for advice. My plan is simple (in my head anyway) I want to set in place a device to run squid proxy so that I can the reduce bandwidth usage and also so i can see what users are doing on the web. So far I have tried a Windows solution but could not sort out the syslog bit and a linux solution which I struggled with and had to give up. My plan is to host squid on a virtual server hosted in Hyper V, on my previous attempts with linux I tried to use the gui desktop but could not get it to display properley so I am going to have to work around the command line to get it working. Can anyone help with this? Which OS should I use? What monitoring software would you recommend? I am trying to keep costs to a minimum while doing this while managing to have a reasonable solution. Thanks in advance for any advice you can pass on. alamb200 -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/What-do-you-recommend-tp4663512.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: [squid-users] What do you recommend?
On Monday 25 November 2013 at 15:50, alamb200 wrote: > I want to set in place a device to run squid proxy so that I can the reduce > bandwidth usage So, you want Squid to be configured as a caching proxy - that's not difficult, and there are lots of tutorials and guides around on the net to help with this. > and also so i can see what users are doing on the web. Assuming that it is legal to do this, wherever you are, then you want a logfile analysis tool - again there are several around, but you could start with http://squidalyser.sourceforge.net/ > So far I have tried a Windows solution but could not sort out the syslog > bit and a linux solution which I struggled with and had to give up. I would always recommend a Linux-based solution for Squid (and indeed for networked services in general), so it would be helpful if you could tell us: - which version (distribution) of Linux did you try? - which guidelines did you follow to get Squid working? - which aspects did you find yourself struggling with? - what didn't work satisfactorily, leading you to give up? What you're looking for is a relatively simple Squid setup, so hopefully it shoudn't be too hard to identify what problem you had, and people here can almost certainyl help you to solve it. Regards, -- "There has always been an underlying argument that we should open up our source code more broadly. The fact is that we are learning from open source and we are opening our code more broadly through Shared Source. Is there value to providing source code? The answer is unequivocally yes." - Jason Matusow, head of Microsoft's Shared Source Program, in response to leaks of Windows source code on the Internet. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.
Re: [squid-users] What do you recommend?
Hi, CentOS / RHEL 6.4 runs natively on the Hyper-V platform. Just keep in mind that i've never done an install with a desktop manager running as i generally just with the console / ssh. I manage several web filtering servers based on squid running that distro (usually squid 3.3.9/10 on CentOS 6.4), it works fine and is rock stable. Other than that, i use a really basic squid / squidGuard solution, log parsing is done by sarg. 2013/11/25 alamb200 : > Hi, > I have several aborted attempts to get what I want to do to work and have > failed miserably every time, so I thought I would ask you for advice. > My plan is simple (in my head anyway) I want to set in place a device to run > squid proxy so that I can the reduce bandwidth usage and also so i can see > what users are doing on the web. > So far I have tried a Windows solution but could not sort out the syslog bit > and a linux solution which I struggled with and had to give up. > My plan is to host squid on a virtual server hosted in Hyper V, on my > previous attempts with linux I tried to use the gui desktop but could not > get it to display properley so I am going to have to work around the command > line to get it working. > Can anyone help with this? Which OS should I use? What monitoring software > would you recommend? > I am trying to keep costs to a minimum while doing this while managing to > have a reasonable solution. > Thanks in advance for any advice you can pass on. > alamb200 > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/What-do-you-recommend-tp4663512.html > Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
