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Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator's Handbook

By : Erez Ben-Ari, Ran Dolev, Erez Y Ben
Book Image

Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator's Handbook

By: Erez Ben-Ari, Ran Dolev, Erez Y Ben

Overview of this book

Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) is the latest in a line of Application Publishing (Reverse Proxy) and Remote Access (VPN) Server products. The broad set of features and technologies integrated into UAG makes for a steep learning curve. Understanding all the features and abilities of UAG is a complex task that can be daunting even to experienced networking and security engineers. This book is the first to be dedicated solely to Microsoft Forefront UAG. It guides you step-by-step throughout all the stages of deployment, from design to troubleshooting. Written by the absolute experts who have taken part of the product’s development, official training and support, this book covers all the primary features of UAG in a friendly style and a manner that is easy to follow. It takes you from the initial planning and design stage, through deployment and configuration, up to maintenance and troubleshooting. The book starts by introducing UAG's features and and abilities, and how your organization can benefit from them. It then goes on to guide you through planning and designing the integration of the product into your own unique environment. Further, the book guides you through the process of publishing the various applications, servers and resources - from simple web applications to complex client/server based applications. It also details the various VPN technologies that UAG provides and how to take full advantage of them. The later chapters of the book educate you with common routine “upkeep” tasks like monitoring, backup and troubleshooting of common issues. Finally, the book includes an introduction to ASP, which some of the product's features are based on, and can help the advanced administrator with enhancing and customizing the product.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator's Handbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring UAG event logging


In addition to using the built-in Web Monitor, you can also configure UAG to send events to three external resources—a RADIUS server, Email, and a Syslog server. These, as well as other logging parameters are configured through the Admin/Event Logs Settings. The settings you can configure through it are:

Queue and report size

The queue size parameter controls how many events are shown in the Event Viewer of the Web Monitor. The default is 50 messages. One reason that you might have for changing it is if you have a very busy server. If so, the server may generate so many messages that they might refresh too fast for you to track. Setting a larger number will allow you to see messages before they overflow off the display window.

The Max Report Results parameter controls how many events a query can display. This means that if you use the Event report to generate a report, it will not display more results than the number defined here (the default is 2000). You might...