Setting http parent caching options – Intel 1520 User Manual

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Intel NetStructure Cache Appliance Administrator’s Guide

▼ Reaching the Routing page

1

Be sure you are in configure mode. If not, click the CONFIGURE tab.

2

Click the Routing page button.

Setting HTTP parent caching options

The appliance can participate as a member of an HTTP cache hierarchy. You can
point your appliance at a parent network cache—either another Intel NetStructure
Cache Appliance or a different caching product—to form a cache hierarchy,
wherein a child cache relies upon a parent cache in fulfilling user requests.

parent

failover

You can specify more than one parent cache to be queried. If the first parent
cache does not respond to the request, the appliance tries the next parent cache.

The appliance supports multiple parent caches and parent failover. Use the
command-line interface to configure multiple parent caches and parent failover
(which gives appliance a sequence of parent caches to query if the first parent
cache misses). See

Controlling parent proxy caching‚ on page 89.

The following table describes the options.

Option

Description

Parent Caching
on/off

Enables or disables parent caching. To set parent caching
on, you must also name a parent cache.

Parent Cache

Identifies the parent cache and port. Using the following
format:

parent_name:port_number

. The port must be

dedicated. If the appliance cannot find a requested object in
its own cache, it searches the parent cache before
searching the Internet. If you want parent failover, you can
specify more than one parent cache; for example,

parent1:port1; parent2:port2

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