RE: Proxy question

[Carolyn Wilson <c.wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Margaret,

You use service levels to do this, providing you have a distinct IP range
for your campus.

In LIMIT NETWORK ACCESS under logins, under your HTTP connection, set your
campus IP range to a service level that is higher than that required for off
campus patrons IP ranges. For example, the service level for our campus
range is 3, while the service level for the default 'all' is set to 0.

Then in your Web Access Management Table (forward table), under Ver? , enter
the service level that is equal to the level for your campus users - eg ours
is set to 3. So any group of IPs that are set to 3 or above will not be
required to verify themselves on our system. This works well for us.

When we first got WAM, it took me ages to find this out, as I thought the
only options for Ver? were yes or no. But you can also enter a service level
number. We have been using this for over a year, and it works well.

Regards
Carolyn

-----Original Message-----
From: MARGARET WALDRON [mailto:mwaldron@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, 7 May 2002 5:59 PM
To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Proxy question


Hi Carolyn,

How do you set up the system to verify off campus patrons but not 
on campus patrons if the ptype is the same?
Thank you in advance,


On 7 May 02, at 8:45, Carolyn Wilson wrote:

> John,
> 
> We have only just implemented the rewrite version, but were using the 
> old version for some time.
> 
> Without going into it in great detail, providing your different 
> members have different discrete IP ranges, I would think that the 
> service levels and verification levels, along with the Limit Network 
> Access functions, should give you what you need. The outside vendor 
> might be a problem if the IP numbers allocated are not discrete.
> 
> The URLS will need to be changed, but you can use global updates to do 
> that. You shouldn't need two URLS.
> 
> The links will use the proxy whether the user is on campus or not, but 
> you can set the verification level so they are not asked to verify 
> themselves - making it seem the same to the patron as going direct. I 
> don't believe there is a problem with server load, but if you have to 
> pay for your network traffic it could be an issue.
> 
> If you want some more detail I am happy to answer questions or send 
> you examples of our setup. The documentation isn't very clear on this. 
> We require off campus patrons to verify, and but not on campus 
> patrons.
> 
> Regards
> Carolyn Wilson
> Library IT Coordinator
> Murdoch University
> Murdoch Western Australia 6150
> ph: 9360 6273
> c.wilson@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:c.wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hammer [mailto:jhammer@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, 7 May 2002 12:28 AM
> To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Proxy question
> 
> 
> We are a member of a consortium considering using the WAM in its new
> version.  One of our institutions are using the old version, one is 
> contracting with an outside vendor, one is using Squid, and one is not 
> using any form of proxy.  I have some questions for those in the group
that 
> have some experience with a rewriting proxy.  The colleges all share the 
> bib record.
> 
> I have been told the urls in the bib records will need to be changed.
> 
> 1) How will this affect the institution not using a proxy and the one
> contracting with the outside vendor? Will the changed urls be a problem
for 
> them? Will there have to be two versions of urls?
> 
> 2) Will the links use the proxy whether the users are on campus or 
> not?  If
> so, how will that affect the resources of the Innovative server?
> 
> As you can see I am not quite sure how this is going to work for us.  
> Any
> words of advice will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
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Margaret Waldron
Millennium Coordinator
College Library
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology,
Dublin Rd,
Galway. Ireland.
Email: margaret.waldron@xxxxxxxxxx
Tel: 0035-91-742168
Fax: 0035-91-751107
URL: http://www.gmit.ie
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