BlueCoat Control Center 1.0b1 review

BlueCoat Control Center allows people with BlueCoat proxies to monitor their proxy infrastructure

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Sam McLane

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BlueCoat Control Center allows people with BlueCoat proxies to monitor their proxy infrastructure. BlueCoat Control Center utilizes Tcl, MySQL and PHP.

Advanced URLs are polled, and the data is presented back through PHP. Syslog and real-time access log data can also be used to show proxy utilization and alerts.

Requirements:
Tcl8.3.x
php 4.3.x
mysqltcl 2.5.1
TclCurl 0.12.2
TclUDP 1.0.6

Installation:

1) untar this to /var/www/html/dashboard

2) for each of your SG's, create a new accesslog format called dash of type bluecoat custom and using the string: %a|%v|%u|%f|%b|%e|$(x-virus-id)

3) Set up a cusomt log using the dash format and configure it to use a custom uplaod client. Point it at the linux box dashboard is installed on and at port 8300. It needs to be text and continuously uploaded.

4) go to the bin directory and run the script log_listener.tcl , I find the command works quite well: nohup ./log_listener &

5) The web should load within a couple of secs with data, the url is http://< ip_of_dashboardserver >/dashboard/

It should look fairly similar to the page you were shown. Please feell free to write and let me know of any issues or suggestions, here is a partial list of things I am working on for version 1.0:

1) Streaming Log file parser and statisitics (mostly done)
2) Poller for non real time reports (started)
3) Web UI for configuration and admin (not started)
4) Email notification of threshholds with WebUI (not started)
5) The follwing report categories:

DNS Response time DRTR Stats
Auth Resp time Policy Stats
HTTP Statistics CPU/Disk Stats
Interface Staistics HW Report
URL Response time Licensing report
Bandwidth gain stats (maybe) Virus Report (RSS Feed)
Attack Detection

Some of these are just thoughts in my head, others I have a pretty good handle on what is needed. If oyu think there are others that are needed let me know.