Preposition Configuration Mode Commands

Use preposition configuration mode for configuring preposition tasks and related parameters. To enter this mode, enter the specified preposition command from the global configuration mode. The prompt for preposition configuration mode consists of the hostname of the WAE followed by (config-preposition) and the pound sign (#). You must be in preposition configuration mode to enter preposition configuration commands.

(config-preposition) accelerator http preposition dre enable

To enable DRE (DDUP feature) for preposition connections, use the accelerator http preposition dre enable preposition configuration command. To disable DRE for preposition connections, use the no form of this command.

accelerator http preposition dre enable

no accelerator http preposition dre enable

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Syntax Description

This command has no arguments or keywords.

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Command Default

The default is disabled.

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Command Modes

preposition configuration

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Device Modes Default

application-accelerator

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Usage Guidelines

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Examples

The following example shows how to enable DRE for preposition connection.

WAAS(config-preposition)# accelerator http preposition dre enable

 

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Related Commands

(config-preposition) accelerator http preposition task task-name

(config-preposition) accelerator http preposition task task-name

To configure a preposition task for one or more sites, use the accelerator http preposition task task-name preposition configuration command. To disable the specified preposition task, use the no form of this command.

accelerator http preposition task task-name duration | enable | pattern | rate | recursion | schedule | url

no accelerator http preposition task task-name duration | enable | pattern | rate | recursion | schedule | url

task-name

The name of the preposition task. Preposition task name is an alphanumeric identifier up to 47 characters. Special characters like ‘/\{}()?”<>[]&*” are not allowed.

Note the following when specifying a task

  • You can configure up to 10 URLs per task.
  • You can configure up to 10 schedules per task.
  • You can configure up to 50 tasks per device/device group.

pattern exclude pattern

The object type(s) to exclude from caching, such as.jsp or.asp, each separated by a comma or a space. The list of object name patterns to be excluded has a total pattern field limit of 47 characters.

pattern include pattern

The object type(s) to include in caching, such as.jsp or.asp, each separated by a comma or a space. The list of object name patterns to be included has a total pattern field limit of 47 characters.

schedule

The time for the preposition task to run, include start date and time and recurring dates and times.

(no) schedule daily hour:minute

(no) schedule yearly day-of-month:month hour:minute

(no) schedule monthly date list-of-day-of-month time hour:minute

(no) schedule weekly list-of-day-of-week time hour:minute

duration minutes

The maximum amount of time, in minutes, a preposition task can run before it is halted. You can set the duration to ensure that preposition tasks do not overlap with each other, or with times of high traffic.

The range is 1 to 2,147,483,647 minutes.

depth

The depth of the link level at which the content is retrieved. Recursion depth is active only if you check the Recursive Task check box. Select 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, or 21 from the drop-down list, or enter any custom value between 1-1000. The default is 1.

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Noteblank.gif A greater number of specified levels of links means a greater amount of data stored in the cache, sometimes exponentially more. If the amount of requested pre-fetched data becomes larger than the cache, the newly requested data will flush all previously stored data, and may slow down other operations that attempt to use the cache.

url

The base URL(s) for prepositioning. The maximum length for the URL is 900 characters. Characters not allowed in the URL are space, double quotes (“). ASCII characters are allowed in the range of ASCII 33 through ASCII 125.

  • Use a space to separate multiple URLs.
  • You can configure up to 10 URLs per task.

rate

The maximum download rate, in KBps. The range is 0 to 10,000,000. The default is 20. Zero indicates no enforced rate limiting.

recursive

The prepositioning should travel from the base URLs according to the specified depth.

recursion delay seconds

The amount of time, in seconds, between requests during recursive download.This simulates user wait time. Recursive delay time is necessary because some servers use the lack of time between requests to detect and restrict web spiders.

Use a value between 0 and 600 seconds. A value of zero provides the best performance when there are no web spider restrictions.

recursion include domain domain-suffix

The list of server domain suffixes for which recursive spidering is permitted. If the list is empty, then spidering is only permitted within the same domain as the specified URL. You can configure up to ten servers:

  • The server name is up to 255 characters.
  • Server names are separated by comma or space.

enable

Enable the task to run. For the task to run, it must be enabled with at least URL and one schedule.

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Command Default

The default is disabled.

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Command Modes

preposition configuration

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Device Modes Default

application-accelerator

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Usage Guidelines

Use the sub-mode facility (prompt “>”) to configure a preposition task:

  • no - Turns off the command or resets it to its defaults.
  • exit - Exits the sub-mode options menu.

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Examples

The following example shows the preposition task “test1,” which runs daily at 14:30. The task length is ten minutes; there is a recursion delay of two seconds between requests. The task URL is www.cisco.com. This task excludes.jsp files, and includes any objects to “www.sampletestdomain.com” if www.cisco.com references it. The task has a maximum download rate of 1000, and the recursion depth is four.

accelerator http preposition task test1
recursion depth 4
rate 1000
recursive
recursion delay 2
recursion include domain www.sampletestdomain.com
duration 10
pattern exclude.jsp
url www.cisco.com
schedule daily 14:30
enable

 

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Related Commands

(config-preposition) accelerator http preposition dre enable

(config-preposition) credentials

To set the username and password credentials for a file server in a preposition directive, use the credentials preposition configuration command.

credentials username username password { 0 | 1 } password }

 
Syntax Description

username username

Specifies the username.

password { 0 | 1 } password

Specifies the password. To indicate that the password string is unencrypted, specify 0. To indicate that the password string is encrypted, specify 1.

 
Defaults

No default behavior or values.

 
Command Modes

preposition configuration mode

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Device Modes

application-accelerator

Examples

 
Related Commands

(config-preposition) server

(config-preposition) dscp

To set the DSCP marking value for a preposition task, use the dscp preposition configuration command. To remove a DSCP marking value, use the no form of this command.

dscp value

no dscp value

 
Syntax Description

value

DSCP marking value to assign to prepositioning traffic.

 
Defaults

No default behavior or values.

 
Command Modes

preposition configuration mode

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Device Modes

application-accelerator

 
Usage Guidelines

This command specifies the DSCP marking value to be used for prepositioning traffic.

DSCP is a field in an IP packet that enables different levels of service to be assigned to the network traffic. The levels of service are assigned by marking each packet on the network with a DSCP code and associating a corresponding level of service. DSCP is the combination of IP Precedence and Type of Service (ToS) fields. For more information, see RFC 2474.

For details on the valid DSCP marking values, see Table 3-2, “DSCP Marking Values” for the service-policy global configuration command.

Examples

 
Related Commands

(config) service-insertion

(config-preposition) duration

To set the maximum duration for a preposition task, use the duration preposition configuration command. To remove a duration limit, use the no form of this command.

duration minutes

no duration minutes

 
Syntax Description

minutes

Maximum number of minutes that the preposition task is allowed to run.

 
Defaults

No default behavior or values.

 
Command Modes

preposition configuration mode

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Device Modes

application-accelerator

 
Usage Guidelines

This command specifies the maximum amount of time that the WAAS software should take to complete the preposition task. If the software takes longer than this amount of time, the software stops the prepositioning process before all files are copied to the Edge WAE cache. If the preposition task does not start at the scheduled start time (for example, because the Edge and the Core have no connection), the start retries are counted in the duration. If you do not specify a value for this command, WAAS takes as much time as needed to export this file server.

Examples

 
Related Commands

(config-preposition) schedule

(config-preposition) enable

To enable a preposition directive, use the enable preposition configuration command. To disable a preposition directive, use the no form of this command.

enable

no enable

 
Syntax Description

This command has no arguments or keywords.

 
Defaults

Not enabled.

 
Command Modes

preposition configuration mode

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Device Modes

application-accelerator

 
Usage Guidelines

You must use this command to enable a preposition directive after you define it and schedule it.

Examples

 
Related Commands

 

(config-preposition) ignore-hidden-dir

To ignore hidden directories in the set of files to be prepositioned, use the ignore-hidden-dir preposition configuration command.

ignore-hidden-dir

 
Syntax Description

This command has no arguments or keywords.

 
Defaults

Hidden directories are not ignored.

 
Command Modes

preposition configuration mode

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Device Modes

application-accelerator

Examples

 
Related Commands

(config-preposition) root

(config-preposition) max-cache

To set the maximum percentage of the cache that the files from a preposition directive can use, use the max-cache preposition configuration command.

max-cache percentage

 
Syntax Description

percentage

Integer from 1–100 that specifies a percentage of the overall Edge WAE cache that prepositioned files can consume.

 
Defaults

5

 
Command Modes

Preposition configuration mode

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Device Modes

application-accelerator

Examples

 
Related Commands

(config-preposition) max-file-size

(config-preposition) max-file-size

To set the maximum size file that can be prepositioned, use the max-file-size preposition configuration command. To remove this limit, use the no form of this command.

max-file-size size_in_kb

no max-file-size size_in_kb

 
Syntax Description

size_in_kb

Number of kilobytes of the maximum file size.

 
Defaults

No default behavior or values.

 
Command Modes

preposition configuration mode

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Device Modes

application-accelerator

 
Usage Guidelines

Files that are larger than the specified size are not prepositioned.

Examples

 
Related Commands

(config-preposition) max-cache

(config-preposition) min-file-size

To set the minimum size file that can be prepositioned, use the min-file-size preposition configuration command. To remove this limit, use the no form of this command.

min-file-size size_in_kb

no min-file-size size_in_kb

 
Syntax Description

size_in_kb

Number of kilobytes of the minimum file size.

 
Defaults

20 KB

 
Command Modes

preposition configuration mode

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Device Modes

application-accelerator

 
Usage Guidelines

Files that are smaller than the specified size are not prepositioned.

Examples

 
Related Commands

(config-preposition) max-file-size

(config-preposition) name

To set the display name of a preposition directive, use the name preposition configuration command.

name name

 
Syntax Description

name

Name of a preposition directive.

 
Defaults

The default name is New preposition directive n.

 
Command Modes

preposition configuration mode

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Device Modes

application-accelerator

Examples

 
Related Commands

(config-preposition) enable

(config-preposition) pattern

To filter the files included for a preposition directive, use the pattern preposition configuration command. To remove this filter, use the no form of this command.

pattern { equals | starts-with | ends-with | contains } text

no pattern { equals | starts-with | ends-with | contains } text

 
Syntax Description

equals

Specifies to limit the selected files to those filenames that are equal to the specified text.

starts-with

Specifies to limit the selected files to those filenames that start with the specified text.

ends-with

Specifies to limit the selected files to those filenames that end with the specified text.

contains

Specifies to limit the selected files to those filenames that contain the specified text.

text

Text string that filters the selected files based on the pattern option.

 
Defaults

No default behavior or values.

 
Command Modes

preposition configuration mode

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Device Modes

application-accelerator

Examples

 
Related Commands

(config-preposition) root

(config-preposition) recursive

To include files in subdirectories for a preposition directive, use the recursive preposition configuration command. To not include subdirectories, use the no form of this command.

recursive

no recursive

 
Syntax Description

This command has no arguments or keywords.

 
Defaults

Subdirectories are included.

 
Command Modes

preposition configuration mode

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Device Modes

application-accelerator

Examples

 
Related Commands

(config-preposition) root

(config-preposition) root

To set a root directory for a preposition directive, use the root preposition configuration command.

root path

 
Syntax Description

path

Full pathname to the directory, not including the server name.

 
Defaults

No default behavior or values.

 
Command Modes

preposition configuration mode

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Device Modes

application-accelerator

 
Usage Guidelines

You can configure multiple root directories by executing this command multiple times for a preposition directive.

Examples

 
Related Commands

(config-preposition) pattern

(config-preposition) recursive

(config-preposition) scan-type

(config-preposition) server

(config-preposition) scan-type

To set the file scanning type for a preposition directive, use the scan-type preposition configuration command.

scan-type { full | since last | since period units }

 
Syntax Description

full

Specifies to copy all files to the Edge WAE cache.

since last

Specifies to copy only the files that have changed since the last preposition to the Edge WAE cache. This differential filter is applied from the second iteration of a task execution onward.

If a new directory is moved to an already prepositioned directory (without changing its last-modified time), this new directory is not prepositioned during the next prepositioning session when you choose this option.

since period units

Specifies to copy only the files that have changed within the specified period. Period values are the number of minutes, hours, days, or weeks (depending on the units specified). Unit values are min, hour, day, or week.

 
Defaults

Full

 
Command Modes

preposition configuration mode

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Device Modes

application-accelerator

Examples

 
Related Commands

(config-preposition) recursive

(config-preposition) root

(config-preposition) schedule

To set the schedule for starting a preposition task, use the schedule preposition configuration command.

schedule { now |
daily time |
date date time |
weekly { dayname [ dayname ]...} time time |
monthly { week-day dayname weeknumber time time | { day day [ day ]...} } time time }

 
Syntax Description

now

Specifies that prepositioning occurs within a few minutes of submitting the schedule.

daily time

Specifies that prepositioning occurs daily at the defined time at which to run the prepositioning task, in the following format: hh : mm, where hh is the hour (00–23) and mm is the minutes (00–59).

Hours are in 24-hour format, as in the following example: 23:01

date date time

Specifies that prepositioning occurs at the defined time and date at which to run the prepositioning task, in the following format: DD : MM : YYYY, where DD is the day (01–31), MM is the month (01–12), and YYYY is the year (1993–2035). The time is in the following format: hh : mm, where hh is the hour (00–23) and mm is the minutes (00–59).

Example: 28:09:2008 23:01

weekly dayname

Specifies that prepositioning occurs on the selected days of the week at the defined time. To specify multiple days, separate them with spaces, as follows: Monday Tuesday

time time

Specifies the time to run the preposition task on the specified days.

monthly

Specifies that prepositioning occurs on the selected days or dates of the month at the defined time.

week-day dayname weeknumber

Specifies a named day of the week and week of the month to start preposition. Only one day is allowed. Week number values are 1–4.

day day

Specifies a numbered day of the month (integer). To specify multiple days, separate them with spaces, as follows: day 1 6 11 16 21 26 31.

 
Defaults

now

 
Command Modes

preposition configuration mode

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Device Modes

application-accelerator

Examples

The following example shows how to set the preposition task to run on December 15, 2008 at midnight:

WAE(config-preposition)# schedule date 15:12:2008 00:00
 

The following example shows how to set the preposition task to run weekly on Wednesdays and Fridays at 8 p.m.:

WAE(config-preposition)# schedule weekly Wednesday Friday time 20:00
 

The following example shows how to set the preposition task to run monthly on the 1st and 15th days at 1:00 a.m.:

WAE(config-preposition)# schedule monthly day 1 time 15 1:00
 

 
Related Commands

(config-preposition) duration

(config-preposition) server

To set a server name for a preposition directive, use the server preposition configuration command.

server name

 
Syntax Description

name

Server name.

 
Defaults

No default behavior or values.

 
Command Modes

preposition configuration mode

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Device Modes

application-accelerator

Examples

 
Related Commands

(config-preposition) credentials

(config-preposition) root

(config-preposition) use-proxy

To enable the proxy use by a specific preposition task, use the use-proxy global configuration command. To disable proxy use by a specific preposition task, the no form of this command.

use-proxy

no use-proxy

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Syntax Description

This command has no arguments or keywords.

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Command Default

No default behavior or values.

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Command Modes

preposition configuration

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Device Modes Default

application-accelerator

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Usage Guidelines

For WAAS Version 6.2.1 and later, you can preposition external content in the case of a deployment with proxy. Consider the following when configuring HTTP/S preposition proxy for Akamai Connect:

  • IPv4 proxy is supported for HTTP/S prepositioning.
  • The HTTP preposition proxy feature is a feature independent of the WAAS CM and external HTTP proxy.
  • Specific IP address-based proxy configuration is supported for HTTP/S preposition proxy. File-based and auto-detected configurations are not supported for HTTP/S preposition proxy.

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Examples

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Related Commands

(config-preposition) accelerator http preposition task task-name

(config-preposition) user-agent

To create a user agent to display information about the client browsers and operating systems used to access the URLs specified for a preposition task, use the user-agent global configuration command. To not use a specified user agent, use the no form of this command.

user-agent user-agent-string

no user-agent user-agent-string

 
Syntax Description

user-agent user-agent-string

String for the user agent. Use only letters, numbers, hyphen, and underscore, up to a maximum of 256 characters.

 
Defaults

No default behavior or values.

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Syntax Description

This command has no arguments or keywords.

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Command Default

No default behavior or values.

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Command Modes

preposition configuration

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Device Modes Default

application-accelerator

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Usage Guidelines

The user agent displays information about the client browsers and operating systems used to access the URLs specified for a particular preposition task. The server populates the cache with content that is dependent in part on the type of user agent used for the specified cache prepositioning task.

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Examples

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Related Commands