CENTRAL MANAGEMENT CONSOLE (CMC)
Centralized Configuration, Monitoring, and Control
The Riverbed Central Management Console (CMC) simplifies the process of deploying, configuring, and managing Steelhead appliances.
The CMC also provides visibility into how applications are performing across a WAN. Reporting metrics such as WAN traffic levels, application throughput performance, and TCP session flow characteristics provide underlying application insight needed to help diagnose problems and maintain the control over your WAN application infrastructure.
Key Features & Benefits
Touchless Steelhead Configuration
With the CMC, a new Steelhead device can be deployed without a single keystroke. Steelhead appliances will automatically contact the CMC for configuration and operation information, and start accelerating applications immediately.
Flexible Group Management
The CMC’s powerful grouping feature provides administrators with the flexibility of creating groups of Steelhead appliances based on geographical location, business function, or personal preference. Once groups have been created, an administrator can broadcast a configuration to a specific group or to multiple groups as desired.
Intuitive Configuration Profiles
The CMC provides an intuitive “configuration profile” method for managing configurations across an entire Steelhead appliance deployment. Profiles are a set of configuration values that may be created, edited, re-used from existing configurations, and applied to target Steelhead appliances.
Scheduled Operations
The CMC provides a facility to schedule any Steelhead function or configuration. Software updates can be scheduled for after-hours, or optimization policies can be scheduled to take effect at a specific time.
Configuration Backup/Restore
The CMC provides a facility to backup and restore binary configuration files from distributed Steelhead appliances.
Aggregate Performance Reports
The CMC provides the ability to centrally view performance statistics for all Steelhead appliances network-wide, or from a specific group of Steelhead appliances. View a sortable list of all appliances/groups and their individual performance stats or view graphed representations of all appliances or a group’s aggregate performance.
Dynamic Report Generation
With a few clicks of a mouse, select ports/apps/appliances and generate performance reports on the fly. Want to quickly see throughout performance for FTP and HTTP combined? Select these two ports and see the report almost instantly.
Customizable Home and Summary Pages
Choose which statistics and group to display on both the Summary and Home Pages. Total control allows per-statistic configuration, including trending interval and traffic direction, and even changing the text label representing the performance chart.
Multiple Alarm Events Monitored
The CMC presents a centralized view of the health and status of a group or all Steelhead appliances. Each Steelhead appliance has its status reported by the CMC as healthy, degraded, or critical based on monitoring a number of health elements.
Central Log Retrieval
The CMC consolidates the viewing and retrieval of one or all Steelhead appliance logs in the network.
Single-Click Steelhead Appliance Access
The CMC presents a clear listing of all Steelhead appliances and associated network-wide groups of appliances. A Steelhead appliance can be accessed by simply clicking the appliance listing.
SNMP Support
The CMC supports SNMP MIBs. IT departments can use SNMP to monitor Steelhead appliances through a 3rd party management system.
Security
The CMC provides password-protected administrator (read-write) and monitor (read-only) access levels. Radius and TACACS+ environments are supported for seamless integration into existing authentication systems. In addition, SSL is supported when accessing the CMC from a web browser and communication between the CMC and Steelhead appliances is performed over SSH.
Specifications
Platform
- 1U Rack Mount Chassis
- Web Browser
- Any browser that supports a color display
- Tested with Mozilla and Internet Explorer
Compatibility
- Full feature compatibility with Steelhead appliances with 2.1.3 or greater software
- Limited support for pre-2.1.3 Steelhead appliances
- Listing of appliances with model, health, and version info
- Appliances may be remotely upgraded using the CMC
Number of Steelhead Appliances Managed
- CMC 8001: Up to 10 Steelhead appliances
- CMC 8002: Up to 25 Steelhead appliances
- CMC 8003: Up to 50 Steelhead appliances
- CMC 8004: Up to 100 Steelhead appliances
- CMC 8005: Up to 200 Steelhead appliances
- CMC 8006: Up to 500 Steelhead appliances
|
