Content Engine 507 Software

Hi Guys,
I am a CCNA doing a collection of Cisco equipment to build my own home lab, now i am in the edge of writing my CCNP though i failed one exam.
I have a Content Engine 507 (i know its outdated) and i am looking for the software, i htink it takes ACNS ver 4.1 and below, please help, i can't download it from cisco because it requires a superior username and password. I am in Africa.
Thanks in advance..
(future CCIE - Mdutywa Farai Dalu

Hello,
I honestly doubt you can get the ACNS software you need unless you have a CCO access that grants download for that software. I would recommend you check for the device entitlement and find out if software download is possible.

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Content Engine 507

I have Cisco content engine 507 needs to be integrated with Trend Micro’s Inter-Scan Web Security Suite, What is the best way that would speed up the internet access,
Configure the CE in Nontransparent mode where all web clients through IE point to CE and CE in turn point to IWSS will this work.
Thanks

From the perspective of utilizing ICAP to interact with InterScan, whether you use transparent or direct proxy mode to get the traffic to the CE doesn't make a difference.
~Zach

Content Engine compatability with Windows Media Player

I am currently running ACNS version 5.5 on our CE510 Content Engine. We want to set this box up to serve VOD requests from WMT. I think the clients on site are all using Windows Media Player version 10. Does this version of ACNS software work with Windows Media Player 10?

Dan
this brings up an interesting point. The content (which is canned Video on an Intranet Web site) is HTTP? I am wasting my time here by trying to use the Windows MP services?? Perhaps I already have what I need...
Your comments appreciated.
Kevin

Help!!! Content engine

my configuration is follow the attached file. I don't know what is wrong with my content engine using as a cache server. when i connect this CE to my network, i can make my user access to the internet fast only 2 days, but after 2 days it makes my users internet connection slow. So when users access to the internet slow, i disconnect this CE from my network, then my users internet connections is running better. So please help me to find what is incorrect with my configuration and what commands i should add more to this current configuration"

What is the ACNS software version u r using in ur content Engine7305.I am sending u a configuration doc for ACNS rlease 5.2.This has all the info regarding ACNS 5.2.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/conntsw/ps491/products_configuration_guide_book09186a00802debd6.html
Let me know, if you have any problem in browsing this big document. and finding out the pblm.I will assist you.

Content Engine Problem

Dear All,
My apologies if this posting is on the wrong board.
I've a problem with our content engine returning an error of:
"Tre reply from server is not valid"
The URL of the site is http://hiring.monster.co.uk/jobs/createtitle.aspx?mode=qb.
I've attached a screenshot of the error message.
Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Sinh

This symptom is observed on a router on which Web Cache
Communication Protocol (WCCP) is enabled and Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF)
switching is disabled. If the caches are Cisco caches, they will be running
software prior to ACNS 4.2.5.
solution: Ensure that CEF switching is enabled on the router. If this is not possible, the impact of the problem on the cache will be minimized if the authentication bypass function is disabled.also try upgrading IOS to 12.1(18.01)E which may solve the issue.

Content Engine transaction logs -- monitoring and analysis

At our remote sites there's a local Cisco CE511 to ease our WAN bandwidth. I have been tasked to find a method to gather CE usage for trending and troubleshooting.
From my search on the internet I decided to go with the Webalizer application. I setup the CEs to export their transaction logs every hour to my FTP server. After a test of Webalizer on a log file, it produced a nice HTML report for that hour.
I would like to discuss with anyone on bringing this up to a new level. I would like webalizer to run as a cron job, but the log file names changes every hour. So that's a hurdle I need to figure out. Also keeping track of user web hits is important. I would like to make sure my reports are accurate in reporting what IP address is the top talker.
I hope this will start a productive exchange of ideas. Thanks.

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an interoperable standards-based protocol that allows for external monitoring of the Content Engine through an SNMP agent.
An SNMP-managed network consists of three primary components: managed devices, agents, and management systems. A managed device is a network node that contains an SNMP agent and resides on a managed network. Managed devices collect and store management information and use SNMP to make this information available to management systems that use SNMP. Managed devices include routers, access servers, switches, bridges, hubs, computer hosts, and printers.
An SNMP agent is a software module that resides in a managed device. An agent has local knowledge of management information and translates that information into a form compatible with SNMP. The SNMP agent gathers data from the Management Information Base (MIB), which is the repository for information about device parameters and network data. The agent can also send traps, or notification of certain events, to the manager.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/conntsw/ps491/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a0080236630.html#wp1101506

Should the Content Engine work while the Inernet link is down ?

I have installed CE590 in a client network
The http saving performance is from 30 : 40 %
My client want to make sure the CE is caching the web site
He want to shutdown Serial port of the main router , and try to browse web sites. ( the Cached sites )
Should he get a reply from the CE and browse the cached sites ??
I mean , Can the PC browser ( while the internet is link is down ) open page like www.yahoo.com for example if it is cached on the CE ??
Is there is any command of the CE that can display the name of the cahced web pages ?
Note : Cisco Content Engine Software Release 3.11
Can anyone help me ?
Thanks
Mohamed Abdallah

Mohamed,
Before you go any futher you need to upgrade the CE to ACNS 4.2.3. There are known issues with 3.1.1.
To answer your question the CE will only server content if it can not access the internet if the object is fresh. By this I mean the object has not expired or the object does not need revalidation eg If modified since request.
This could cause problems with broken pages etc etc.
Your best option is to turn on transaction logging.
transaction-logs enable
You can then go to the local1/logs directory on the CE
type working.log
This will show you the urls that clients are requesting and if they got a hit / miss/ ims hit / ims miss etc etc.
Overall your cache should always have access to the origin server for content.
Cheers
Phil

Content Engine CE565 authentication cache

I have a Content Engine CE565 running software version CE 5.1.7
The commands <show users request-authenticated> and <show http-authcache> provide me with information on authenticated users, but I would like to know how to determine the time remaining for a user/ip address in the authcache. This is with the understanding that the authentication will timeout after the configured period of inactivity (in minutes).
Also, is there a way to remove the authentication cached for single user/ip address? Understanding that the authentication cache resides in RAM. The only command that I am aware of is <clear users request-authenticated>, which clears all authenticated users. However, this requires all users to reauthenticate. TIA

As far as I know, there is no way to clear a single user, only all of them by using the command you mentioned above. The command http authentication cache timeout can be used to configure the time between last access and cache removal.

Content Engine errors.

Hi there,
I'm having some problems with Content Engine.
I would appreciate any help.
It gives following errors:
Jun 12 08:15:59 CE01 wccp: %CE-WCCP-5-500008: WCCP: A new view from
the 25.25.25.25. Change number = 28
Jun 12 08:15:59 CE01 wccp: %CE-WCCP-5-500014: WCCP: New CE notified of
15.16.17.208
Jun 12 08:15:59 CE01 wccp: %CE-WCCP-5-500026: New CE entry being
created for 15.16.17.208 seen by router 25.25.25.25
Jun 12 08:16:07 CE01 wccp: %CE-WCCP-4-500015: WCCP:No assignment sent:
15.16.17.204 not in Router View
Jun 12 08:16:08 CE01 wccp: %CE-WCCP-5-500008: WCCP: A new view from
the 25.25.25.25. Change number = 29
Jun 12 08:16:08 CE01 wccp: %CE-WCCP-5-500014: WCCP: New CE notified of
15.16.17.204
Jun 12 08:16:08 CE01 wccp: %CE-WCCP-5-500026: New CE entry being
created for 15.16.17.204 seen by router 25.25.25.25
Jun 12 08:16:17 CE01 wccp: %CE-WCCP-5-500019: WCCP: New WC in compute
assign 15.16.17.204
Jun 12 08:16:40 CE01 wccp: %CE-WCCP-3-500001: HTTP Proxy may be down,
keepalives halted!
Jun 12 08:20:54 CE01 java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: ds_getStruct got error :
50 for key stat/cache/http/perf/throughput/requests/sum connection 5
Jun 12 08:20:54 CE01 java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: ds_getStruct: unable to
get `stat/cache/http/perf/throughput/requests/sum' from dataserver
Jun 12 08:20:54 CE01 java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: unable to get http
request throughput stats(error 50)
Jun 12 08:20:54 CE01 java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: ds_getStruct got error :
4 for key stat/cache/https/request connection 5
Jun 12 08:20:54 CE01 java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: ds_getStruct: unable to
get `stat/cache/https/request' from dataserver
Jun 12 08:20:54 CE01 java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: unable to get https
request throughput stats(error 4)
Jun 12 08:20:54 CE01 java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: ds_getStruct got error :
4 for key stat/cache/ftp connection 5
Jun 12 08:20:54 CE01 java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: ds_getStruct: unable to
get `stat/cache/ftp' from dataserver
Jun 12 08:20:54 CE01 java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: unable to get
ftp-over-http request throughput stats(error 4)
Jun 12 08:20:54 CE01 java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: ds_getStruct got error :
4 for key stat/cache/http/usage/cpu/sum connection 5
Jun 12 08:20:54 CE01 java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: ds_getStruct: unable to
get `stat/cache/http/usage/cpu/sum' from dataserver
Jun 12 08:20:54 CE01 java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: unable to get cpu
stats(error 4)

Hi guys,
I am really out of ideas!!!
I've updated software couple times already.
but nothing helps.
it still gives same error:
Jun 16 14:23:01 ponent exec_show_stats: %CE-CLI-3-170013: item stat/cache/http/usage/cpu/sum not found not found in dataserver
Jun 16 14:23:01 ponent exec_show_stats: %CE-CLI-3-170013: item stat/cache/http/request not found not found in dataserver
Jun 16 14:23:01 ponent exec_show_stats: %CE-CLI-3-170013: item stat/cache/https/request not found not found in dataserver
Jun 16 14:23:01 ponent exec_show_stats: %CE-CLI-3-170013: item stat/cache/https/requests not found not found in dataserver
Jun 16 14:23:01 ponent exec_show_stats: %CE-CLI-3-170013: item stat/cache/ftp-native not found not found in dataserver
Jun 16 14:23:01 ponent exec_show_stats: %CE-CLI-3-170013: item stat/cache/ftp not found not found in dataserver
Jun 16 14:23:02 ponent exec_show_stats: %CE-CLI-3-170013: item stat/wccp/bypass not found not found in dataserver
Jun 16 14:23:02 ponent exec_show_stats: %CE-CLI-3-170013: item stat/wccp/bypass not found not found in dataserver
Jun 16 14:23:52 ponent exec_rule: %CE-CLI-3-170013: Verifier not responding. when setting cfg/gl/cache/rule/stat/show (Error number: 32)
Jun 16 14:23:52 ponent exec_show_stats: %CE-CLI-3-170013: item stat/cache/http/err not found not found in dataserver
Jun 16 14:23:52 ponent exec_show_stats: %CE-CLI-3-170013: item stat/cache/https/err not found not found in dataserver
Jun 16 14:24:37 ponent cfg_bin_urlfilter: %CE-CLI-3-170013: Verifier didn't respond. Need to re-register verifier. when setting /cfg/gl/cache/urlfilter/http/enable (Error number: 64)
Jun 16 14:24:45 ponent java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: ds_getStruct got error : 4 for key stat/cache/http/perf/throughput/requests/sum connection 5
Jun 16 14:24:45 ponent java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: ds_getStruct: unable to get `stat/cache/http/perf/throughput/requests/sum' from dataserver
Jun 16 14:24:45 ponent java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: unable to get http request throughput stats(error 4)
Jun 16 14:24:45 ponent java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: ds_getStruct got error : 4 for key stat/cache/https/request connection 5
Jun 16 14:24:45 ponent java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: ds_getStruct: unable to get `stat/cache/https/request' from dataserver
Jun 16 14:24:45 ponent java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: unable to get https request throughput stats(error 4)
Jun 16 14:24:45 ponent java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: ds_getStruct got error : 4 for key stat/cache/ftp connection 5
Jun 16 14:24:45 ponent java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: ds_getStruct: unable to get `stat/cache/ftp' from dataserver
Jun 16 14:24:45 ponent java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: unable to get ftp-over-http request throughput stats(error 4)
Jun 16 14:24:45 ponent java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: ds_getStruct got error : 4 for key stat/cache/http/usage/cpu/sum connection 5
Jun 16 14:24:45 ponent java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: ds_getStruct: unable to get `stat/cache/http/usage/cpu/sum' from dataserver
Jun 16 14:24:45 ponent java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: unable to get cpu stats(error 4)
Jun 16 14:24:47 ponent java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: ds_getStruct got error : 4 for key stat/cache/http/perf/throughput/requests/sum connection 5
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Jun 16 14:24:47 ponent java: %CE-CMS-4-700001: unable to get http request throughput stats(error 4)
Jun 16 14:25:15 ponent cfg_bin_urlfilter: %CE-CLI-3-170013: Verifier didn't respond. Need to re-register verifier. when setting /cfg/gl/cache/urlfilter/http/enable (Error number: 64)
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please, any suggestion would be appreciated.

Content Engine cannot authenticate using LDAP

Dear All,
I have a problem with content engine 511 authenticating with LDAP server. I am using Lotus notes LDAP server to authenticate with content engine but it doesn't work. Anyone has try with LDAP before? Please advice. Thank you for your help.
Regards,
Chris

Dear,
I already using the latest version of ACNS software 5.3. And there is an option to use LDAP authentication in CLI and WEB based management. Thank you for your help.
Regards,
Chris

Cisco Content Engine for Content Filtering

Hi All,
I am looking for a low end solution for Content Filtering and would like to use Cisco Content Engine.
1. The documentation said that Websense, Secure Computing SmartFilter (does not require separate SmartFilter) & N2H2 support is there on the CE. I used configurator on CE 510, but it did not give me option for any of those. I would appreciate any input in this regard.
2. Also, I assume that once I get a Content Engine, I don't need to use Microsoft Proxy any more, please confirm.
regards,
Ahmer Ghazi

You would have to Install the Smartfilter software on the Content engine that would work with the ACNS software running on the CE. SmartFilter software operates inside your network to control user access to external Internet resources and allows you to restrict access to World Wide Web pages, newsgroups, and FTP sites.
For more details refer:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/webscale/uce/acns41/smrtfltr/sf_chap1.htm
The Content Engine does the job of storing content locally and serving it to the users, so you would not need to use the Microsoft Proxy.

Content Engine performance issue

Hi. I have 2 pairs of Content Engines in my network. Both pairs work in redundancy mode. One pair services external requests to the internet and the other is for servicing requests made to internal 'http' resources. It has been observed that the CE's are getting slow over a period of time. One of the CE's also gives out a message 'Unsupported hardware'. Can anyone help me out on this?

Hi. It has been a couple of weeks that this slow performance has been observed. There was no change in any hardware or software done. Hence it makes the matter more intriguing.

Content engine 510 - transparent proxy stand-alone

Hello to all,
after studying architecture examples about Content Engine 510, I found that there is two modes:
1) standard proxy
2) transparent proxy
I need the transparent architecture !
But every example about transparent mode seems to include a router or a switch with a particular level of software, that can send http requests to the Content Engine to have cache.
I don't have any of these components.
I simply need to have a Content Engine that receive any kind of IP protocols on one ethernet, and route it to the other ethernet plug, except that if it is http protocol, it will cache the pages.
Is is simply impossible to configure the Content Engine 510 that way ?
Is the transparent proxy mode always requires a router or a switch to give it the http flow ?
If it is possible, where can I find some configuration examples ?
Thanks to help a newbie in content engine...
Olivier

Olivier,
You'll need to have a router running wccp in order to redirect http requests to the cache. Withouth this, the cache has no visibilty of traffic on your LAN.
Regards,
Dave

Wacky integration of PIX,Content engine and router

Dear All,
I have got a situation...The situation is
that I have a pix515e, Content Engine and
Cisco 2620xm router...The 3 attachments contain each of the systems configuration..They are arranged in the following way..
There is a 192.168.0.0 network ID running on the PIX inside network which is getting translated by pix to 172.16.1.11-172.16.2.254. The e0 of pix has got an IP address of 172.16.1.7. PIX firewall's gateway is the router's ethernet interface which is 172.16.1.3. I have allowed tcp etc traffic for the inside network.
After PIX there is a content engine 565A which is getting connected via its gigabit interface with IP address of 172.16.1.2 to the network with wccp config.
The router is running 172.16.1.3 on its ethernet interface with the wccp configuration on WAN facing interface..
The problem is that I am able to access the Internet from inside of the PIX.. The PIX is translating perfectly...When the traffic reaches the router, it also translates into public addresses perfectly..The user's are accessing Internet without any problem..and i can see the nat maintained on router and pix..
But the problem is that when i write sh wccp gre on content engine, it doesn't show any activity..This is the problem that content engine is not responding the way it should..
Right now I am lost why the CE isn't working... If anyone has faced this scenerio before then any help will be greatly appreciated...
Hoping for a response which resolves this...
Regards,
Noman Bari

Dear Joerg,
Thank you for your response... That night when I had posted my request for help, I went back to my hotel room, took a shower and focused on CE and router communication and what was configured on them (by some another consultant)...
And then it struck to me that wccp was never enabled on the router in the global config(see the router config in my 1st posting)... once this glitch was removed, everthing now works .. This was never a pix issue bcuz I could see that it was working the way its suppose to work,xlating was happening, people were surfing the web and stuff but the show commands on CE and router weren't showing any activity..
The following link on configuring Cisco Cache Software helped me enormously and I recommend to everyone working on CE..
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/conntsw/ps547/products_configuration_guide_book09186a0080087140.html
Through this process I learned a very important lesson though...when you are troubleshooting a problem, never trust the configurations that have been done by the guy before you...start everything from the scratch by going through the documentation..
and ofcourse this extremely useful Cisco Forum also...
Regards,
Noman Bari

Rate Limiting - Will Content Engine 590 solve my problem?

We have a Cache Engine 550 deployed in our network which is great for reducing traffic on the Link to the Internet, however I have now run into a little problem with the device as we are now trying to implement Bandwidth Shaping using the existing Cisco infrastructure and thus the Cisco IOS.
One of the IOS features concerned is Committed Access Rate (CAR).
We would like to do some traffic shaping according to certain IP Protocols such as FTP, HTTP as well as rate limiting certain of our customers (IP Blocks) so that they dont saturate the Serial link to our ISP.
The problem we have is that the Cache Engine 550 replaces the original requestors IP with its own as it (the CE) now takes over as the requestor to the Internet thus we have all HTTP traffic via our ISP having the source as that of the Cache Engine.
Due to this we cannot Rate-Limit a particular customer (IP range).
Question-------
Does the Content Engine 590 (ACNS, ICDN) enable me to complete my task and control the Serial connection the way I would like to?
Can I do a sort of IP Spoofing so that the original IP is still in place, but the Content Engine still does its job of Caching?
I have already looked at the Packeteer unfortunately it only has Ethernet ports.
The WiseWan 401 with HSSI port looked promising, but I feel that even though it will do great shaping and graphs it will still not solve the problem of a saturated link upstream to the ISP (from the boxes point of view), I will still sit with packets being dropped and thus bandwidth wasted.
Anyone out there with any other solution?
Thanks in advance.
Lutz.

Hi,
We have just implemented IP spoofing in version 4.2 of ACNS code. (Caching) which will only run on a 590/560/507/7320 cache.
Version 4.2 sould be available at the end of July early August. This will slove you problem with identifing traffic to rate limit.
Cheers
Phil

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