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Network Configuration
Web Security Help | Web Security Solutions | Version 7.8.x
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Network Agent configuration
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Verifying Network Agent configuration
When you run Websense Web Security or Websense Web Filter in standalone mode (not integrated with a proxy or firewall product), Websense Network Agent enables:
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Internet policy enforcement
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Network protocol and Internet application management
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Bandwidth management
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Logging of bytes transferred
With Websense Web Security Gateway or Gateway Anywhere, or when Web Security or Web Filter is integrated with a third-party gateway, firewall, or caching product, Content Gateway or the third-party product routes user requests to Filtering Service for policy enforcement, and routes block pages back to the client. In this environment, Network Agent may still be used to manage non-HTTP requests, log Internet activity, or both.
In addition, Websense Web Security Gateway and Gateway Anywhere can detect protocols that tunnel over HTTP (see Tunneled protocol detection) and provide some bandwidth management capabilities (Using Bandwidth Optimizer to manage bandwidth), independent of Network Agent.
Network Agent works by continually monitoring overall network usage, including bytes transferred over the network. The agent logs usage summaries at predefined intervals. Each summary includes start time and end time, overall bytes used, and bytes used per protocol.
By default, Network Agent also provides bandwidth usage data to Policy Server, and Internet activity log data to Filtering Service.
Network Agent is typically configured to see all traffic in your network. The agent distinguishes between:
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Requests sent from internal machines to internal machines (hits to an intranet server, for example)
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Requests sent from internal machines to external machines such as web servers (user Internet requests, for example)
The latter is the primary concern in monitoring employee Internet usage.

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