Riverbed Central Management Console (CMC)

Central Management Console

Centralized Configuration, Monitoring, and Control

The Riverbed Central Management Console makes the process of deploying, configuring, and managing Steelhead™ appliances more simple. Administrators are in full control of their Steelhead appliance deployment with just a few clicks. Configuring, updating, and monitoring Steelhead appliances happens all through one Web-based interface.

The CMC also offers visibility into how applications are working across a WAN. Reporting metrics such as WAN traffic levels, application throughput performance, and TCP session flow characteristics can be shown over configurable intervals of time going back to a whoel year. Variable reporting modes provide underlying application insight required to assist with the diagnosis of problems and maintain the control over your WAN application infrastructure.

Key Features & Advantages

Touchless Steelhead configuration

With the Central Management Console, a new Steelhead appliance can be installed with minimal administration. Steelhead appliances will automatically contact the CMC for configuration and operation information, and start accelerating applications right away.

Flexible group management

The CMC's powerful grouping feature gives administrators 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 delivers an instinctive "configuration profile" method for managing configurations throughout 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. For instance, a complex QoS rule set can be made part of a configuration profile and then used in one step to a group of Steelheads.

Scheduled operations

The CMC poses a feature which is able 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 aany desired time you wish.

Central configuration and image libraries

The CMC has the ability to archive and install both configuration files and software images to and from distributed Steelhead appliances.

Appliance and network health monitoring

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.

SNMP support

The CMC supports SNMP MIBs. IT departments can use SNMP to observe and monitor Steelhead appliances through a 3rd party management system.

Aggregated performance reports

The CMC provides the ability to centrally view performance statistics for all Steelhead appliances throughout the network, or from a specific group of Steelhead appliances. Global statistics also can be represented by QoS classes or applications (optimized and pass-through). View a sortable list of all appliances/groups and their sole performance stats or view graphed representations of all appliances or a group's aggregate performance.

Dynamic report generation

Its simple to, select ports/apps/appliances and generate performance reports spanning a configurable window of time up to 12 months in the past with just a few clicks of a mouse. For example if you need to see throughout performance for FTP and HTTP for the first week of last April, simply select these two ports and the time interval to see the report almost instantaneously. Customized reports can be emailed regularly to any number of recipients, further simplifying management of large numbers of Steelhead appliances.

Customizable pages

With the option to choose which statistics and group to display on both the Summary and Home Pages, the CMC also enables per-statistic configuration, including trending interval and traffic direction, and even changing the text label representing the performance chart. Automatic port and application discovery facilitates the creation of insightful reports.

Specifications

Platform

• 1U Rack Mount Chassis

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

Datasheets:

• Central Management Console

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