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Quota Management

Many ISP’s have different action requirements that are dependant on usage generally called a CAP but called a quota in SunGate. Two quota types are allowed by SunGate, a daily quota and a monthly quota and two profiles are required for each quota – one which is used when the rule or group is under quota and the other that is used when the rule or group is over quota. These profiles can also be sets of profiles.

Unfortunately, while profiles are very efficient, quotas are not and require a significant amount of CPU power so it may save you some bandwidth at peak times and stop user abuse but it will significantly reduce the number of users that a single unit can manage. This is caused by that fact that every rule or group that has a quota also needs long term statistics enabled and these stats must be interrogated for every rule to detect when it transitions from under to over quota. This is typically done once per hour to try and limit the load.

Restricted Client Access

A very popular feature of the SunGate unit is the ability for ISP’s to allow clients to access their own statistics and reports without compromising other client’s data. This access can is by using a normal Web browser and can be HTTP, Secure HTTPS, or either. Every SunGate unit has a User Manager where secure access can be setup and each user can be restricted to which modules access is allowed and whether changes can be made or only viewing allowed.

In addition in SunGate individual users can be restricted to viewing a rule, a group, or a set of either or both. Standard reports can be setup which will store and/or mail reports to users every day, week or month with just their own data visible.