Sophos Web Appliance
Sophos Web Appliance
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  • About Your Appliance
  • Getting Started
  • Dashboard
  • Configuration
  • Reports
  • Search
  • System Status
  • Using Help
  • Configuring Ports
  • Configuring Your Browser
  • Appliance Behavior and Troubleshooting
  • Interpreting Log Files
  • Copyrights and Trademarks
  • Contacting Sophos
  • Glossary
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  • About Your Appliance

    The Sophos Web Appliances and Sophos Management Appliances include a powerful, highly effective, and easy-to-use administrative web interface that provides configuration and reporting tools, automated software updates, and self-monitoring to minimize the administrator’s day-to-day involvement in web security and control maintenance. You can customize the appliances’ default URL-handling policy and message pages, and accept or reject end user requests for changes to the handling of blocked URLs submitted via an end user feedback system.

  • Getting Started

    The Sophos Web Appliance is designed to function as a web proxy that provides HTTP security at the gateway. Potentially risky content is scanned for various forms of malware. URL requests are compared to the Sophos site list, in which sites are assigned a risk class and a site category. Access to sites can be blocked on the basis of degree of risk or by site category.

  • Dashboard

    The Dashboard tab provides a quick overview of Web Appliance activity and status in several panels: Select View, Summary Statistics Today, URL Test, Virus Updates, Web Traffic, Blocked Sites, Viruses and Malware, and Traffic Patterns.

  • Configuration

    The Configuration tab provides an interface for setting web security, browsing policy options, and performing appliance network configuration and administrative tasks.

  • Reports

    The Reports tab provides graphical and textual data on a variety of aspects of Web Appliance activity and performance.

  • Search

    Use the search functionality to search user activity, sandbox activity, and user requests.

  • System Status

    The icons on the System Status tab indicate the system’s alert level by their color. If it is a joined appliance, the System Status button on the navigation bar becomes animated if the appliance is synchronizing with other appliances. The status indicated by these icons is shown in the following table. Differently shaped icons are used for the Web Appliances (disks) and the Management Appliance (network icons).

  • Using Help

    The user help provides several mechanisms to help you master the use of the appliance.

  • Configuring Ports

    To ensure the functionality of the Sophos Web Appliance, configure your network to allow access on the ports listed below. Some ports are required only for specific situation, such as when you enable FTP backups or central management.

  • Configuring Your Browser

    This section contains instructions for configuring your browser to use the Web Appliance web proxy server.

  • Appliance Behavior and Troubleshooting

    This section contains information on the general behavior of Sophos appliance operations and specific information on troubleshooting various aspects of Web Appliance deployment and configuration.

  • Interpreting Log Files

    This page provides the information required to interpret a Web Appliance log file.

  • Copyrights and Trademarks
  • Contacting Sophos
  • Glossary
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Contacting Sophos

Sophos Support

If you encounter a problem with your Sophos product, or if it does not function as described in the documentation, contact Sophos Technical Support: http://www.sophos.com/support/

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To contact your local Sophos office, see: http://sophos.com/companyinfo/contacting/

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