Duration
Squid Proxy for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Essentials
5 days
Goals
To be able to implement Squid Proxy for Production usage in any coperate environment
Pre-requisite
Red Hat 124 and RH134 or Comptia Linux+. At least 3 years Linux Administration experiences. Not a beginner level
training.
Outline
1: Getting Started with Squid
- Proxy server
- Reverse proxy
- Getting Squid
2: Installing Squid from binary packages
- Fedora, CentOS or Red Hat
- Debian or Ubuntu
3: Configuring Squid
- Quick start
- Syntax of the configuration file
- Types of directives
4: Running Squid
- Command line options
- Getting a list of available options
- Getting information about our Squid installation
5: Control lists
- Fast and slow ACL types
- Source and destination IP address
- Adding backend web servers
6: Understanding Log Files and Log Formats
- Log messages
- Cache log or debug log
- Access log
- Understanding the access log
- Access log syntax
7: Managing Squid and Monitoring Traffic
- Cache manager
- Installing the Apache Web server
- Configuring Apache for providing the cache manager web interface
- Accessing the cache manager web interface
8: Protecting your Squid Proxy Server with Authentication
- HTTP authentication
- Basic authentication
- Active Directory and LDAP authentication
- SMB authentication
9: Building a Hierarchy of Squid Caches
- Cache hierarchies
- Reasons to use hierarchical caching
- Problems with hierarchical caching
- Joining a cache hierarchy
10: Squid in Reverse Proxy Mode
- What is reverse proxy mode?
- Exploring reverse proxy mode
- Configuring Squid as a server surrogate
- HTTP port
- HTTP options in reverse proxy mode
- HTTPS port
- HTTPS options in reverse proxy mode
11: Squid in Intercept Mode
- Interception caching
- Advantages of interception caching
- Problems with interception caching
- Diverting HTTP traffic to Squid
12: Writing URL Redirectors and Rewriters
- URL redirectors and rewriters
- Understanding URL redirectors
- HTTP status codes for redirection
- Understanding URL rewriters
13: Squid Analysis Report Generator
- Installing and configuring SARG
- Generating Reports
14: Troubleshooting Squid
- Some common issues
- Cannot write to log files
- Could not determine hostname
- Cannot create swap directories
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.