Blue Coat SURF-500-999-3YR Manuale Utente

SurfControl Web Filter v5.5 

Administrator’s Guide 105

These settings affect how SurfControl Web Filter resolves Domain names:

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Workstation name resolution - Determines a workstation name based on IP address.

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Site name resolution - Provides DNS resolution for destination names.

SurfControl recommends you leave these settings cleared to increase performance. If you need 
workstation and site name resolution enabled, you must define the DNS settings on all Web Filter servers. 
It is critical that DNS requests from those servers do not time out or take an excessive time to respond.

By default the Web Filter service writes data to flat files, which are then imported to the database 
automatically. The Monitor to Database settings enables you to configure this process. The options are:

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Automatic (default setting) - Flat files are continuously imported into your database as they are 
created.

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Manual - Select this option to update the flat files to your database manually. This can be done in the 
following two ways:

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Use  the  Database Updater tool. See 

 for more details.

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Schedule a database update event in the Scheduler. See 

 for 

more details.

SurfControl recommends using a scheduled event for updating your database. This ensures that your 
database is automatically kept up to date, without the need to perform a manual update.