STEELHEAD APPLIANCE MANAGEMENT
Steelhead appliances are designed for easy remote management.
Steelhead Appliance Management and Reporting
Steelhead appliances include a robust enterprise-class management infrastructure that simplifies configuration, enables control from around the world, and provides full visibility into the health and performance of your Steelhead appliances. In addition to the management console available on every Steelhead appliance, enterprises can take advantage of the optional Central Management Console (CMC)to enable centralized management of many Steelhead appliances at once.
Management Features
Steelhead appliances can be managed through a rich GUI or command-line interface for fast set up, configuration, and remote management.
Extensive Reporting
Steelhead appliances monitor traffic and performance and provide reports on a per-port/application basis. Performance reports containing data for the previous 30 days are easily retrieved via simple-to-read graphs rendered in the Steelhead WEB GUI and formatted tables in the CLI. Reports range from applications and their traffic load, to how much data is being reduced by having the Steelhead appliances in place.
Selectable Optimization via Powerful Rules Configuration
The default state for Steelhead appliances is to intercept and optimize all TCP traffic. However, a powerful capability to configure rules provides administrators the option to restrict or specify optimization by protocol, port, or IP address range.
Over-the-Wire Upgrades
As new Steelhead appliance software updates are released, a facility to easily perform upgrades is provided via the CLI or WEB GUI. In addition, a roll-back mechanism allows an administrator to quickly revert back to the previous software image if desired.
Health Monitoring and Reporting via WEBGUI, SNMP traps, Syslog, and email Notification
Steelhead appliances constantly monitor key software and hardware areas and when thresholds have been met, alarms are sent to the WEB GUI, SNMP MIB traps, Syslog, and by way of email notification. Key monitored areas include software, network bypass, data store, software version, CPU utilization, memory utilization, memory paging, admission control, high temperature, and disk full events.
AutoSupport for Reporting Problems to Riverbed Technical Support
Steelhead’s optional AutoSupport facility quickly reports problems back to Riverbed support when critical failures occur, enabling much faster time to problem resolution.
Multi-Level Access to Management System
The Steelhead appliances WEB GUI and CLI provide monitor (read-only) and admin (full control) access. Management system authentication may also be managed via Radius/TACACS+ enterprise infrastructures.
Centralized Management
If you have many Steelhead appliances, you can deploy a separate, optional Central Management Console (CMC) appliance, which allows you to configure and manage many Steelhead appliances simultaneously.
|
