Run through all of these required and optional processes to finish the set up of your Download Delivery property.

Review errors and warnings

Once you've defined all Rules and Behaviors for your property, you need to address any noted conflicts or issues.

1. Review the settings in all Behaviors and ensure that they are set as desired.

2. Access the message center tab to review the messages there. Click the up triangle to display messages:

   • Ensure that there are no errors. Review any listed errors and resolve them in the applicable behaviors until 0 Errors is displayed.

   • Acknowledge all warnings. This includes any behavior you may have customized outside of what's predefined as its best practice. If desired, perform any necessary actions to resolve a warning. Otherwise, click Hide Message to dismiss it.

3. Collapse the message center tab, using the down triangle.

4. Review all other settings for your Download Delivery property and ensure they're set as required.

5. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save.

Here's an example of the message center tab, with all errors resolved, but multiple warnings displayed.

Update your origin server's configuration

If you're using your own custom origin to house your content for delivery, you may need to update it to work with your Download Delivery property. For example, you might need to modify infrastructure settings such as session stickiness and load balancing.

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Are you using NetStorage?

If you're using NetStorage as your origin server, the processes explained here don't apply.

Disable the origin server access control list (ACL)

If you have a client IP-based ACL on your origin servers, you need to disable it before beginning delivery of your content or application through the ​Akamai​ edge network. Once your application is delivered through the network, your origin servers will no longer see the real client IP addresses and will block all requests. If you need to maintain a client IP ACL, you can specify the list in your edge server configuration.

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You can skip this if you don't have a client request ACL on your origin servers.

Use compatible load balancing

Not all load-balancing algorithms are compatible with content delivery services. Incompatible systems include those based on client IP addresses, SSL session identifiers, or least-used connections to specific servers.

This is because more than one edge server can accept end-user requests in the same session and then forward them to the origin server. So, your origin server may see the different edge servers as different clients. In addition, your origin server will receive requests from a much smaller number of clients, once you switch to the edge network, as the requests are routed through Edge servers.

If you've been using load balancing based on client IP addresses or least-used connections, you need to change the load-balancing algorithm when using the edge network. Compatible algorithms are random or round-robin load distributions replicating session data across all origin servers.

Adjust your intrusion detection settings

Using edge network services may trigger aggressively configured intrusion detection systems. This happens because requests from many end users are aggregated through a smaller number of edge servers, potentially making it seem like a single end user is making multiple requests for the same content.

Other recommended tasks

These tasks deal with monitoring and maintaining applications. They're recommended, but you don't have to complete them to implement your Download Delivery property. Review these tasks and determine which ones best suit your needs.

Activate log delivery

Edge network logs can help you troubleshoot content and configuration problems. You can receive Edge server logs of all requests for your content in a standard log file format. These logs are aggregated from data from all Edge servers, sorted by time, and can be delivered with specified frequency to a specific email address, or sent to your FTP servers.

Log delivery is not enabled by default. If you need edge network logs, you need to activate it in ​Akamai Control Center​.

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It takes 24-48 hours for log delivery to start from the time when you activate it. Keep this in mind when configuring log delivery. Make sure it's completely set up before delivering any actual content from the ​Akamai​ edge network. Logs can't be collected retroactively.

1. Access ​Control Center​ and log in using a User ID and Password that have been configured for access to Download Delivery.

2. Select ☰ > COMMON SERVICES > Log Delivery.

3. Type Download in the Filter field to filter results in the table to only Download Delivery.

4. Locate the applicable ID (CP code) or Object Name associated with your instance of Download Delivery.

5. Click the ... in the Action column and select Start a log delivery > New.

6. Follow the wizard to set up log delivery.

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Are you using NetStorage?

If your edge network services include logs delivery via FTP to your NetStorage account, specify the NetStorage FTP upload account in the Log Delivery settings. The NetStorage account information is included in your service activation package. You can also look it up in ​Akamai Control Center​.

When you use NetStorage for log delivery, it's important to manage the content. If you don't remove excess log files, you may see large overage charges as the files take up more and more space. You can remove the log files after you download them, or you can set up automatic purging rules through the NetStorage interface on ​Control Center​

Test log delivery

Edge network logs are delivered in standard log formats, such as W3C Extended log format. But, if you're currently using your own server logs for reporting or data analysis, you should verify that edge network logs are fully compatible with your log processing application. Test the first log files you receive from the edge network through your regular log processing application or workflow, and adjust them if necessary.

Additional details on log delivery

For complete details on log delivery and its use, see the Log Delivery Service user documentation.

Create additional administrator accounts

An administrator account for ​Akamai Control Center​ is provided to you in your account information after you initially provision Download Delivery. As an administrator, you can create additional accounts with this, or lesser levels of access. Creating additional administrator-level accounts allows multiple people to log on and perform administrator-level tasks.

See the Identity and Access Management documentation for instructions on adding new users.