[isalist] Re: SurfControl/Direct Access...

  • From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:59:58 -0500

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Hi Dan,

For internal connections, Direct Access is entirely a client function.
ISA is never in the picture.

Tom

Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ball, Dan
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 8:36 PM
> To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [isalist] Re: SurfControl/Direct Access...
> 
> http://www.ISAserver.org
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>   
> That is what we were talking about, it IS configured for 
> direct access,
> but no matter what I do the traffic shows up as passing 
> through the ISA
> server.  I seem to recall discussing this with you before, and it was
> determined that SurfControl had basically disabled the Direct 
> Access.  
> 
> Geesh, now you got me wondering what was really said.  I'll 
> have to dig
> through my e-mail archives to find out what we talked about 
> last time...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Thomas W Shinder
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 8:12 PM
> To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [isalist] Re: SurfControl/Direct Access...
> 
> http://www.ISAserver.org
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>   
> Hi Dan,
> 
> To solve that problem you need to enable Direct Access to the internal
> sites.
> 
> Tom
> 
> Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
> Site: www.isaserver.org
> Blog: http://blogs.isaserver.org/shinder/
> Book: http://tinyurl.com/3xqb7
> MVP -- ISA Firewalls
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ball, Dan
> > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 6:56 PM
> > To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [isalist] Re: SurfControl/Direct Access...
> > 
> > http://www.ISAserver.org
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> >   
> > Yes, that was the problem we were running into.  Surfcontrol was
> > "automatically" monitoring every user that browsed our published
> > webserver from the Internet, making the saved history 
> > database useless.
> > I'd go in and deselect all the external hostnames, tell 
> > SurfControl not
> > to monitor them, and the next day I'd have a couple hundred 
> more to do
> > it all over again.  It proved to be quite tedious since I'd have to
> > browse through that narrow list box to select all the 
> hostnames, stop
> > the database, save the changes, and start it again.
> > 
> > I finally fixed that by stopping it from monitoring port 80, now it
> > monitors only port 8080, the proxy port.  That seems to be 
> > working now,
> > the only ones "automatically" monitored are the users using 
> the proxy,
> > which is who we want to monitor anyways.
> > 
> > But, that doesn't solve the problem I have now, the requests really
> > "shouldn't" be passing through the ISA server in the first 
> > place if they
> > are going to the webserver on the same internal subnet.
> >   
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Crockett, Gregory
> > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 6:49 PM
> > To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [isalist] Re: SurfControl/Direct Access...
> > 
> > http://www.ISAserver.org
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> >   
> > Add the sites to "unmonitored sites" found under the monitor
> > application/monitored data tab.  There, you should list all 
> > sites and ip
> > addresses of all host that you do not want monitored.  This 
> > includes web
> > enabled devices (switches, etc.) that are accessed through isa from
> > Internal to internal networks.  If not, they (users either 
> > authenticated
> > or unauthenticated) will eat at your license count.
> > 
> > greg
> > 
> > Sent from mobile Outlook.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Ball, Dan" <DBall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: 8/21/06 2:19 PM
> > Subject: [isalist] SurfControl/Direct Access...
> > 
> > Tom, what is the current status of Direct Access when used in
> > conjunction with SurfControl?  I remember you saying 
> > something about it
> > before, but I can't find my e-mails on it.  I was working with
> > SurfControl quite a bit last week, trying to work out some of 
> > the bugs,
> > and thought it would be really nice if I can get the local 
> web traffic
> > to stop going through the ISA server also.  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I finally figured out a way to get it to stop monitoring 
> > users from the
> > Internet, so that helps.  SurfControl support seemed 
> surprised that it
> > was doing that...
> > 
> >  
> > 
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