Summary

We have learned about using the cache manager to monitor our Squid proxy server for various statistics.

Specifically, we have covered the following:

• Installing and configuring Apache to use the cachemgr.cgi program to provide a web interface for the cache manager.

• Various types of information and statistics about our running proxy server

• An overview of log file analyzers

• Installing and using Calamaris to generate interesting statistics about the usage and performance of our proxy server.

Now that we have learned about monitoring the performance of our proxy server, we'll learn about protecting our proxy server with authentication in the next chapter.