Chapter 2

Access Control

About this chapter

This chapter describes how to create rules and implement secure policies for controlling access to the NetCache by using the NetCache ACL feature. The NetCache is permissive by default; that is, ACLs are not enabled and no requests are denied.

Topics in this chapter

This chapter provides information about the following topics:

Procedures and option descriptions

See the Appliance Manager online Help for configuration procedures and option descriptions.

Location of configuration options

Options for configuring the features discussed in this chapter are in the following location in the Appliance Manager:

Setup tab > Access control > Access Control Lists

Controlling access using the CLI

This chapter describes options in the Appliance Manager to control access to the NetCache appliance, and to control access to content. For descriptions of CLI configuration commands, see the Command Line Reference.

To get information about access control configuration options from the CLI, enter the following command:

set config.acl.?

The preceding command lists the available access control options.

To get help for a specific access control option, enter the following command:

help config.acl.optionname

To get information about SmartFilter configuration options from the CLI, enter the following command:

set config.smartfilter.?

To get help for a specific SmartFilter option, enter the following command:

help config.smartfilter.optionname

To get information about WebWasher DynaBLocator configuration options from the CLI, enter the following command:

set config.wwfilter.?

To get help for a specific WebWasher DynaBLocator option, enter the following command:

help config.wwfilter.optionname