Chapter 4

Planning for News Cache Service

About this chapter  

This chapter provides information to help you plan to configure a NetCache appliance as a news cache. It includes a scenario in which NetCache appliances are deployed as news caches in an ISP network.

Before reading further  

This chapter assumes that you have read the information about news caching in the Deployment Guide and have made decisions about how you want to deploy your NetCache appliance as a news cache on your network.

Sections in this chapter  

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Section A, Planning for news cache configuration
• Section B, How NetCache manages news objects
• Section C, Configuration options for a news cache
• Section D, News cache performance
• Section E, Monitoring a news cache
• Section F, News cache configuration scenario

Procedures and option descriptions  

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

Location of configuration options  

To access the news caching options in the Appliance Manager, select:

Setup tab > NNTP

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