Hi,
I have been loaned a trial Astaro ASG220 for the next two weeks.
This is our current school scenario.
We currently use a Sonicwall firewall and in behind the firewall is a squid proxy server. Squid proxy authenticates against our Active directory. Web access is allowed or disallowed based on whether our students have money in their Papercut account. If they have money they are placed in a webusers group and if they don't have money they are removed from this group. The Papercut program reads the Squid server logs, calculates the usage and deducts money from the user accounts. When the user runs out of money they are removed from the web users group and Squid refreshes every two minutes and detcts that they can no longer surf.
I am tinkering with the ASG220. I was told by the distributor that it uses Squid proxy.
1) Can I access the logs directly somehow?
2) If I use syslog to dump the HTTP Daemon logs on another server are they in normal Squid format?
3) Can I set the Astaro up so that only the Active Directory group called webusers is allowed to the web?
4) Will the Astaro rule refresh and detect when the user runs out of money?
Obviously, I can set up the Astaro exactly like our Sonic and continue as is now. However, if I can get this to work I free up a server.
Any suggestions ...comments?
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