Project Detail

Description

TLC Gateway

Creation of a web based tool for both configuring a web content filtering server, and allowing end customers to log in and view reports.
We would envisage that this would be accomplished by developing a web site that edits the configuration of a squid proxy server and dansguardian content filtering engine. We are however flexible in the technology chosen, so if you have any suggestions or comments on alternate solutions, please feel free to put them forward.
• The tool should allow an administrator to:
• Update configuration options for the proxy server/content filtering engine and have them reloaded in real time.
• Temporarily suspend/resume services
• Restart the services/server
• View server health such as CPU, Free memory, disk space, etc.
View server log files from the web interface
• Manage end user usernames and passwords
• Ability to add/remove whitelisted sites and blacklisted sites
• Ability to send regular reports on usage to the end customer on a configurable period.


The tool should allow an end customer to:

• Login with a supplied username and password
• Ability to add/remove whitelisted sites and blacklisted sites
• Ability to send regular reports on usage to the end customer on a configurable period.
• View reports on internet usage such as:

o Total bandwidth, bandwidth per user, bandwidth per site
o website hits, website hits by user
o blocked requests, blocked requests by user
• All reports should be available from configurable periods including yearly, monthly, weekly, daily or a user specified range

• Design Constraints
• Web interface to be developed using php and mysql or postgres
• Provide different permission levels for basic users vs super users
• Utilise Ajax partial postbacks wherever possible
• Be styled to match the corporate website