Adding/Editing Scheduled Tasks - 3Com SUPERSTACK 3 WEBCACHE 3000 User Manual

Adding/Editing
Scheduled Tasks
1 Log in to the Web interface.
2 Click Caching on the toolbar.
3 Select Content Preload > Preload Tasks > Preload Tasks to see the Edit
4 To add a new Preload Task, click Add. To edit an existing Preload Task,
5 If you are adding a new Preload Task, choose a name for the task. The
6 Enter or amend the Starting URL for the task. This is often the base URL
7 Select Recursion Level from the drop-down box. The Recursion Level
8 Select Content Lifetime from the drop-down box. The Content Lifetime
9 Check the Follow Links to Different Hosts box to allow the preload task to
To define a preload task:
Preload Tasks window.
highlight the task in the list and click Edit.
name must be unique and should be descriptive of the task you are
adding.
If you are editing a Preload Task, the name of the task will be greyed out
as you cannot rename tasks once created.
for a site e.g.
http://www.3com.com
enter from a Web browser.
determines how deep the Webcache is to scan when looking for pages to
preload. Selecting None will preload only the Starting URL and the images
contained on the page. Selecting 1 will preload not only the Starting URL
and its images but each page linked from it. You may recurse up to five
pages deep.
determines how long the Webcache will assume the preloaded content is
current and therefore a cache hit, before reverting back to using its
standard checks that may involve revalidation of the content with the
Web server.
follow links to other web sites. The Web pages you frequently preload
will contain links to other web sites in a different domain. For example,
http://www.amazon.com
http://www.toysrus.com
follows such links when recursing, or whether the task will remain only
within the initial web site. Normally, you will want to follow links to other
web sites. To prevent this content being preloaded ensure that the box is
cleared.
but can be any URL that you can
may contain a direct link to
. You can control whether the preload task
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