[squid-users] Getting a squid clients list

[Amos Jeffries]

On 30/08/21 6:35 pm, U Zee wrote:
> I've inherited an old machine running squid 2.6 and planning to refresh 
> it. There are many clients in our environment and I'd like to put 
> together a list of those so that they can be updated if the IP/hostname 
> changes.
> Looking at the docs, I see cache.log and store.log but access.log is 
> empty?

That is a bit worrying. Find out why access.log is empty.


> Is there a better way to generate a list of all clients that use it?


If your proxy has clientdb features enabled you can use the cache 
manager "client_list" to fetch a list of all the clients that have been 
using the proxy.

Try command:
   squidclient mgr:client_list | grep "Address"



Amos