Rick-

Paul Carter with Georgetown County Library advised you could possibly answer the question is IPT an approved technology to traverse e-rate funded circuits for library use.  I have been advised by vendors that it is, but I and the library would like to know definitively from the CIO that IPT will not break any policies set forth by the state.

Thx,

Bryan Lawrimore

Bryan,

Looks like a good plan for testing WebSense capability.  We should proceed with the following considerations:

• Schedule a time to start testing when we both can be available to monitor / observe.  I’m scheduled to be here 8:30AM to 8:00PM next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  I would not be available to participate Monday; and Friday is uncertain right now.  If you would like to test during weekend hours, let me know and we’ll try to arrange (but not this weekend).
• Set a specific test duration (starting and ending date/time) so we can communicate to all Library employees that need to know.
• Be prepared to roll-back modifications if it’s determined that network performance is being too severely impacted.
• Get Dwight’s concurrence.

Before committing to WebSense, we may have other issues to consider related to Library versus County needs and obligations.

Paul

Paul-

I would like to test the library’s functionality with our demo’d websense server to verify if configuring our server with two (county and library) internet gateways works.

I want to turn on the url filtering feature on the router to monitor only.  What this will do is confirm that the router is indeed communicating with our policy server.  if we are able to start logging library url requests then we will know that the configuration is a good one, and when we decide to purchase websense, it will work for both the county and the library.

This will not interfere with the library’s current web blocker service running on the firebox.  This will not permit or prohibit any traffic at this time.  It will slow down web page response time, however.  The router will see web requests, forward them to the websense server, the server will check them against its internal database and apply its policies, reply with permit or deny, and the router will follow the server’s directions.  The server is set up to monitor and log traffic only.  I do not have any plans to enforce traffic policies during this test.  Therefore all responses from the server will be to allow the traffic, and the router will comply.

The code I want to implement on the router, and its explanation is:

ip urlfilter allowmode on                        //this will allow traffic to pass even if the router cannot talk to the server

blawrimore@georgetowncountysc.org