My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. When troubleshooting user internet connection issues with a specific URL, that are returning the very unhelpful Blue Coat “TCP Error" message, I normally pop into the Blue Coat ProxySG appliance and run a test from the appliance to the URL in question. I will log into the ProxySG appliance via SSH, and issue the 'test http get' command below: test http get … [Read more...]

My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. Here is a list of Blue Coat ProxySG CLI commands, that I have compiled from my studies, Blue Coat documents, and places around the web. This is by no means an exhaustive or comprehensive list, but is rather meant to be a command line KB of sorts - mainly for my quick reference. The list is split into standard and privileged mode commands. If the list proves useful to you, … [Read more...]