Blue Coat introduced a new feature in SGOS 6.6.x called Volume Quota. With this feature, you can control the amount of data a user can receive during a period of time. This can be set for time period of Hourly, Daily or Weekly.
 This can be used to control how much data a user gets through ProxySG.

For using quota feature, ProxySG SGOS version needs to be a minimum of 6.6.x.

Before creating the policy, quota feature needs to be enabled by executing below command.

#(config) policy quota

Policy Configuration

• Now launch Visual Policy Manager and add a new Web Access Layer.
• Right click on Action and select Set.
• Click on New… and select Volume Quota…
• In the new window, configure the settings as required.

Sample configuration below



Above configuration is set to allow a user to receive only 50MB of data within a period of 1 hour. When the usage reaches 80% of the above set value (i.e. 40MB in this case), he will be issued a warning. After 1 hour the quota will get reset and user can continue to receive more data.


View the status of Volume Quota

Navigate to https://<Proxy IP>:8082/quota/volume

Volume Quota status page

• Under Quota Name: enter the name of the Volume Quota object.
• Select the period as per the object configuration in Quota Period:
• Mention Username or IP address of the client  [use the Username displayed in https://<Proxy IP>:8082/Auth/User-Logins/Summary/Realm/]
• Click View Quota

Resetting a Volume Quota manually

Navigate to https://<Proxy IP>:8082/quota/volume/reset

Volume Quota reset page

• Mention the information for which you wish to reset the quota
• Click on Reset Quota
• For resetting all Volume Quotas to zero, click Reset all volume quotas