Managing and Leveraging Excelerator's Advanced Features

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

We recommend you review the chapters in this section and use the information in them to ensure your appliance 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
Use appliance authentication services	Authentication Services
Set up and implement access control policies	Access Control
Manage appliance certificates	Managing Appliance Certificates
Prepare internal content for Web access	Transforming Content for Internet Delivery
Tune the appliance to meet your cache freshness requirements	Cache Freshness
Learn about managing appliance security	Managing Appliance Security Features.
Learn how the appliance stores various configuration settings, including those you make Learn important information about re-imaging and restoring appliance configurations	Automatic Configuration Mechanisms
Learn about appliance content filtering capabilities, how they function, and how to use them	Content Filtering
Configure the appliance so that DNS names in browser requests resolve as expected	DNS Name Resolution
Control referred access to accelerated content by other Web sites	Controlling Referred Access to Content
Prevent caching of errors from origin Web servers	Dynamic Bypass
Customize appliance error messages and add error messages for additional languages	Appliance Error Messages
Plan and implement a logging strategy so log files are downloaded before appliance logging space fills up	Logging
Use the appliance's FTP services	FTP Services
Keep specific objects in cache and prevent their being replaced in cache by more recently requested objects	Object Pinning
Set up and use appliance routing in small network installations	Router Capabilities
Shut down and restart the appliance	Shutting Down and Restarting
Use appliance SOCKS client services	SOCKS Client Services
Ensure appliance time is synchronized with the network	Time Synchronization
Use appliance WPAD capabilities to automatically configure network workstations to use appliance forward proxy services	Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD)