Managing Excelerator XL 1.0 Cache Devices

As you set up your cache device and fine-tune its installation, you should be aware of the many supporting functions the cache device offers.

We recommend you review the chapters in this section and use the information in them to ensure your cache device is providing exactly the services your Web content delivery strategy requires.

The following table summarizes the tasks you can accomplish using the information in this section.

To	See
Install and manage product licenses	Installing and Upgrading Licenses
Provide conditional access to device services	Access Control
Learn about and use Excelerator XL 1.0 authentication services	Authentication Services
Tune the cache device to meet your cache freshness requirements	Cache Freshness
Learn about managing cache device security	Device and Service Security .
Learn how the cache device stores various configuration settings, including those you make Learn important information about re-imaging and restoring cache device configurations	Device Configurations
Learn how content filtering works and its setup requirements	Content Filtering
Configure the cache device so that DNS names in browser requests resolve as expected	DNS Name Resolution
Prevent caching of errors from origin Web servers	Dynamic Bypass
Understand the system events that a device tracks and how to ensure those who need to know are alerted when events occur	Device Events and Alert Handling
Plan and implement a logging strategy so log files are downloaded before cache device logging space fills up	Logging
Keep specific objects in cache and prevent their being replaced in cache by more recently requested objects	Object Pinning
Set up and use cache device routing in small network installations	Router Capabilities
Shut down and restart the cache device	Shutting Down and Restarting
Use cache device SOCKS client services	SOCKS Client Services
Ensure cache device time is synchronized with the network	Time Synchronization
Use cache device WPAD capabilities to automatically configure network workstations to use cache device forward proxy services	Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD)
Use the cache device in a hierarchy	Hierarchical Caching