Go to Your Proxy section. Under “Control” area, click on the link “Proxy.pac/WPAD service” grey link Click on the “Proxy.pac Auto-configuration wizard” button. The first step is to define the network domain, this an optional information. Next, specify your network, this will help the wizard to build “White list” […]
The computer “wpad” is a reserved host-name to automatically provide proxy settings to all browsers. The Artica DNS service is able to catch all “wpad*” DNS requests in order to answer them according rules by network. On the DNS section/Control, click on WPAD rules grey link. Enable the feature by […]
The ACLs feature allows you to log requests according a rule. For example we need to log all requests from a computer ip address On the ACL section, create a new acl. Select the option “Log to a CSV file“ On the objects section, define appropriate objects that will filter […]
To display the content of the log partition usage: Click on “System” on the top Menu. Select “Your hard drive” link. Choose Directory Monitor tab Click on the chart icon in the table for the /var/log directroy. A graph is displayed and shows you the directory usage.
Quota size object ( available in 3.x Artica version ) is a proxy extension that calculate the downloaded size per user, IP, website, categories. Calculated size is each 10mn, hour, day, month. This object can be used in ACLs in order to block access or limit the bandwidth dynamically. It’s […]
Artica proxy statistics allows you to retrieve history for a specific member. Generate the query On the top menu, click on “Statistics“ Choose Members icon Click on the “Build the query” button. Define the User id in drop-down list Choose the period give the username on the search field. Click […]
If you encounter this error when bootting the Artica server. It is caused by a corrupted /etc/inittd file. With root password on the Artica Box If you know the root password, reset your Artica server on the blue screen choose the recovery mode ( the second line) The system […]
My Computers section allows you to manage computers trough Artica, it is a new feature from Artica 1.x or 2.x. All entries are merged to one single section. This Computers database is used for several ways: Add Aliases for proxy service ( link a MAC address to a “name”) Manage […]
To make Artica Proxy in transparent mode in both HTTP/SSL mode you just have to make a routing rule…. You did not need 2 network interfaces, only one single network interface make the infrastructure to work. On the SonicWall: Go to routing rules and create 2 routing rules with the […]
This procedure is to retrieve the password set for the Web administration interface. With putty or any other client open SSH on the Artica server ( default root and password artica ) Or exit the menu console. Perform this command line: grep root /etc/ldap/slapd.conf You will see for example: rootdn […]
