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18Network ConfigurationTRITON - Web Security Help | Web Security Solutions | Version 7.7.xRelated topics: Network Agent configuration, page 440 Verifying Network Agent configuration, page 446When you run Websense Web Security or Websense Web Filter in standalone mode(not integrated with a proxy or firewall product), Websense Network Agent enables:Internet content filteringNetwork protocol and Internet application managementBandwidth managementLogging of bytes transferredIn an integrated Websense software deployment, a gateway, firewall, or cachingproduct may handle the task of routing user requests to Websense software forfiltering, and routing block pages back to the client. In this environment, NetworkAgent may still be used to filter non-HTTP requests, provide enhanced logging detail,or both.In addition, Websense Web Security Gateway can detect protocols that tunnel overHTTP (see Tunneled protocol detection, page 192) and provide some bandwidthmanagement capabilities (Using Bandwidth Optimizer to manage bandwidth, page279), independent of Network Agent.Network Agent works by continually monitoring overall network usage, includingbytes transferred over the network. The agent sends usage summaries to Websensesoftware at predefined intervals. Each summary includes start time and end time,overall bytes used, and bytes used per protocol.By default, Network Agent also provides bandwidth usage data to Policy Server, andfiltering log data to Filtering Service.Network Agent is typically configured to see all traffic in your network. The agentdistinguishes between:Requests sent from internal machines to internal machines (hits to an intranetserver, for example)TRITON - Web Security Help 439