Sophos Web Appliance

User assistance

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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Configuring Your Browser
This section contains instructions for configuring your browser to use the Web Appliance web proxy server.
Other Internet Explorer Settings

Other Internet Explorer Settings

This section contains information on configuring scenario-specific settings in Internet Explorer.

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