Key Benefit:
•  Enables transparent deployment and centralized management
•  Management of up to 500 Steelhead appliances from a single screen

RiOS simplifies the deployment and management of application acceleration infrastructure by employing a transparent approach to communications. RiOS enables easy deployment through auto-discovery of peers and auto-interception of traffic, with no reconfiguration of clients, servers, or routers necessary.

RiOS simplifies ongoing management by providing simple but powerful Web-based and command line interfaces and reporting, as well as the integrated, centralized management and configuration. RiOS also enables a host of additional management features including dozens of deployment configurations, capabilities for redundancy, optional IPsec encryption, RADIUS/TACACS+ authentication, NetFlow support, and SNMP traps.

RiOS provides significant functionality to streamline the deployment of Steelhead appliances:

Reporting:

• Optional Centralized management and configuration via the Central Management Console (CMC)

AND

• Web and CLI-based management for each Steelhead appliance
• Easy to use, customizable reporting
• Aggregated reporting
• Configuration profiles
• Trending to 1 year
• Time period zooming
• Pass-thru traffic visibility

Deployment:

• Transparent deployment, with no tunnel pre-configuration necessary
• Hot-backup capabilities (serial or parallel)
• Support for a wide range of in-path and out-of-path deployment options
• Device auto-registration and 1-step configuration

Management:

• Over-the-wire upgrades
• Group and individual management
• Port and application auto-discovery
• Multi-hop auto-discovery
• Secure Auto-Registration
• Enhanced Active-Active Failover
• SSL Key Management
• MX-TCP Management
• More statistics about traffic & devices

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