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 can be customized to show specific date ranges and can depict application metrics and data reduction statistics by connection and in total for the appliance.

Selectable Optimization via Powerful Rules Configuration

The default state for Steelhead appliances is to intercept and optimize all WAN traffic. However, a powerful capability to configure rules provides administrators the option to restrict or specify optimization by protocol, port, or IP address range.

QoS Configuration

QoS rule sets based on latency and bandwidth can be configured and sorted easily with either the WEB UI or CLI, ensuring high performance for real-time traffic like voice, video, Citrix or other interactive applications.

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.