This feature introduces the following alert messages:
- "%URLF-3-SERVER_DOWN: Connection to the URL filter server 10.92.0.9 is down"
This level three LOG_ERR-type message is displayed when a configured UFS goes down. When this happens, the firewall will mark the configured server as secondary, try to bring up one of the other secondary servers, and mark that server as the primary server. If there is no other server configured, the firewall will enter allow mode and display the "URLF-3-ALLOW_MODE" message.
- %URLF-3-ALLOW_MODE: Connection to all URL filter servers are down and ALLOW MODE is OFF
This LOG_ERR type message is displayed when all UFSs are down and the system enters allow mode.
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Whenever the system goes into allow mode (all filter servers are down), a periodic keepalive timer will be triggered which will try to bring up a server by opening a TCP connection.
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- "%URLF-5-SERVER_UP: Connection to an URL filter server 10.92.0.9 is made, the system is returning from ALLOW MODE"
This LOG_NOTICE-type message is displayed when the UFSs are detected as being up and the system is returning from allow-mode.
- "%URLF-4-URL_TOO_LONG:URL too long (more than 3072 bytes), possibly a fake packet?"
This LOG_WARNING-type message is displayed when the URL in a look-up request is too long; any URL longer than 3K will be dropped.
- "%URLF-4-MAX_REQ: The number of pending request exceeds the maximum limit <1000>"
This LOG_WARNING-type message is displayed when the number of pending requests in the system exceeds the maximum limit and all further requests are dropped.
To display these alert messages, use the ip urlfilter alert command.
This feature introduces the following syslog messages:
- "%URLF-6-SITE_ALLOWED: Client 10.0.0.2:12543 accessed server 10.76.82.21:8080"
This message is logged for each request whose destination IP address is found in the cache. It includes the source IP address, source port number, destination IP address, and destination port number. The URL is not logged because the IP address of the request is found in the cache, so parsing the request and extracting the URL is a waste of time.
- "%URLF-4-SITE-BLOCKED: Access denied for the site 'www.sports.com'; client 10.54.192.6:34557 server 172.24.50.12:80"
This message is logged when a request finds a match against one of the blocked domains in the exclusive-domain list or the corresponding entry in the IP cache.
- "%URLF-6-URL_ALLOWED: Access allowed for URL http://www.n2h2.com/; client 10.54.192.6:54123 server 192.168.0.1:80"
This message is logged for each URL request that is allowed by a UFS. It includes the allowed URL, source IP address, source port number, destination IP address, and destination port number. Longer URLs will be truncated to 300 bytes and logged.
- "%URLF-6-URL_BLOCKED: Access denied URL http://www.google.com; client 10.54.192.6:54678 server 172.19.14.2:80"
This message is logged for each URL request that is blocked by a UFS. It includes the blocked URL, source IP address, source port number, destination IP address, and destination port number. Longer URLs will be truncated to 300 bytes and then logged.
To display these syslog messages, use the ip urlfilter audit-trail command.