We are currently testing a Barracuda internet content filter box on our LAN for a handful of test users. When IE is set to use the Barracuda as its proxy I cannot connect to any databases using Visokio. I have tried a SQL connection and an ODBC connection but both time out. If I remove the proxy settings from within Visokio the problem still exists. The strange thing is that the ODBC connection itself works fine, and I can establish a Telnet connection to the DB server OK from command line. The problem seems to be specific to Visokio. I can only make a successfully DB connection when I remove the IE proxy settings. I have reviewed the Barracuda logs and cannot see any sign of the traffice being logged, let alone blocked.
Thanks for your reply Steve. I had tried adding this setting but your post showed my that I had omitted the ADDITIONAL_JVM_ARGS=- prefix. I'd added it to the config file in C:\Program Files\Visokio Omniscope but I then found that this was a remnant of a previous installation that had been done for 'all users' and that the installation the user was using was installed for 'current user'. So I added the setting to the config file under the user's profile area and it worked a treat. I'm still not sure why the Barracuda box is causing this problem but I'm more than happy with this workaround.