recently we have installed the astaro firewall on our network. after some weeks use now, the following questions and issues have risen. Am I the only one finding these things strange, or not..?
- Issue one, disk space
We required assistance from astaro, because all of a sudden, astarto started to complain about disk usage. (storage partition filling up) Turns out that the http proxy cache was using too much disk space. It is NOT possible to set a max cache size. So, without logging in manually and emptying the disk cache, the http cache feature is unusable, right? (or am I missing something)
Stupid: astaro sets a cache size itself, and later starts complaining about this same cache size. Isn’t this weird?
- Issue two, virus scanning
All virusscanners I know have several options in dealing with virusses. Among the options are: to quarantine, to try to disinfect, and to delete. (usually more advanced options are possible as well: first try to disinfect, if that fails, THEN block, or delete)
As far as I can see, astaro smtp proxy does NOT support the more interesting options: disinfect, and WHEN THAT FAILS quarantine. OR: strip the virus off a message, and let the body go through.
If you receive a mail w/ word file with a virus infection attached, you will never know that you received this mail. Why no disinfect option? Or strip virus??
- Issue three, pptp access logging
I would like to be able to see which users and how often these users use their pppt vpn access. As far as I know, this currently is not possible? The pptp option under ‘reporting’ is *very* shallow... (compared to http proxy usage, for example)
- Issue four, proxy content manager
First of all: the proxy content manager does not display the space occupied by the http proxy CACHE. Meaning: It’s possible to get error messages like “too little free disk space available”. You delete all content (as far as you know) and STILL the disk is not empty at all. (filled to 80%, in fact!) There is nowhere to find out how much disk space is used by the cache. (combined with NO option to specify the cache size)
- Issue five, proxy content manager (again)
Under filters it would be very sane, to have a ‘date’ filter option (before or after) or a ‘age’ filter option. Why? Deleting all content (virusses, spam, etc, etc) older then four weeks would be a very logical action. This is NOT possible now, without selecting each message by hand. (Please, correct me if I’m wrong)
- Issue six, proxy content manager (again, again)
Apparently (acknowledged by astaro support) if there are too many items in the proxy, one cannot use the web interface to delete them anymore. Meaning: Then you can only delete EVERYTHING together. (by logging in to astaro with ssh)
This is really very poor.
Anyway, I am really curious what everybody here has to say to these issues. Agian: PLEASE enlighten me if I am missing anything...
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