•  Welcome
  • About product terminology
  • About document conventions
  • About documentation and release notes
  • Contacting Riverbed
•  About Licenses, Upgrades, and Image Signing
  • About Riverbed licensing methods
  • About automatic licensing
  • About the Riverbed Licensing Portal
  • Installing licenses using the Management Console
  • Installing licenses using the CLI
  • About software upgrades and image signing
  • About software image signing certificates
  • Importing image signing certificates
  • About software upgrades
  • Using an image located on the network
  • Using an image located on the Riverbed Support site
  • Using an image located on the local system
  • Switching to the backup software version
  • Restarting and shutting down the appliance
•  About SteelHead
  • About data streamlining
  • About transport streamlining
  • About application streamlining
  • About path selection for hybrid networking
  • About traffic classification
  • About packet forwarding
  • About availability monitoring
  •  About failover management
    • Fail-to-wire
    • Fail-to-block
  • About centralized management and autodiscovery
  • About in-path and peering rules
  • About controller compatibility
  • About firewalls
•  About the Management Console
  •  About the dashboard
    • Navigating in the Management Console
    • Saving your configuration
    • Restarting the optimization service
    • Signing out
    • Printing pages and reports
  •  Getting help
    • About next steps
•  About Host, Interface, and General Service Settings
  •  About host settings
    • DNS
    • Proxy
  • About the DNS testing tool
  •  About base interfaces
    • Speed and duplex
    • Main routing table
  • About in-path interfaces
  •  About in-path interface settings
    • In-path routing table
    • In-path interfaces for appliance management
  •  About general service settings
    • In-path support
    • Out-of-path support
    • Connection limits
    • Failover support
    • Packet mode optimization
  • About failover
  • About master and backup failover pairs
  • About VLAN tags
  • About auto kickoff and client connection reset
  • About IP address formats
•  About Peering, Autodiscovery, In-Path Rules, and Service Ports
  • About peering rules
  • About peering rule settings
  • About autodiscovery
  • About autodiscovery settings
  • Preventing unwanted peering
  • About in-path rules
  •  About in-path rule settings
    • Web Proxy
    • Cloud acceleration
    • Neural Framing Mode
    • WAN Visibility Mode
  • About default in-path rules
  • About service ports
•  About TCP, Satellite, and SkipWare
  • About SCPS connections
  •  About transport settings
    • TCP optimization
    • Rate pacing
    • Buffer
  • About high-speed TCP
  • About single-ended connection rules
  • About single-ended connection rule settings
  • About traffic settings
•  About Data Stores
  • About data stores
  • About data store settings
  •  About data store encryption
    • Downgrade limitations
  • About data store synchronization
  • About branch warming
  • About data store wrap notifications
  • Clearing the data store
  • About data store performance
•  About Application Protocols, Authenticated Connections, and Domain Controllers
  • About secure traffic authentication
  • About CIFS
  • About CIFS settings
  • About CIFS prepopulation
  • About SMB2 and SMB3
  •  About SMB2 and SMB3 settings
    • SMB Down Negotiation
  • About SMB signing
  • Viewing SMB connections
  • About HTTP
  • About HTTP automatic configuration
  • About HTTP automatic configuration settings
  • About stream splitting
  •  About HTTP settings
    • SaaS User Identity
    • HTML tag prefetch
    • HTTP server subnet or host
  • About MAPI
  • About MAPI settings
  • About Outlook Anywhere
  • About transparent prepopulation
  • Viewing MAPI connections
  • About NFS
  •  About NFS settings
    • Server and volume overrides
  • About SaaS Accelerator
  • About WinSec Controller
  • About Windows domain authentication
  • About Active Directory easy configuration
  • About Active Directory easy configuration settings
  • Viewing configuration status
•  About Domain, Host, and Port Labels
  •  About domain labels
    • Domain labels and cloud acceleration
  • About domain label settings
  •  About host labels
    • Host labels and cloud acceleration
  •  About host label settings
    • Hostnames resolution
  •  About port labels
    • Default port labels
•  About Prioritizing and Directing Traffic Flow
  • About sites, networks, and uplinks
  • About quality of service
  • About application definitions
  • About exporting QoS and application statistics to flow collectors
  • About QoS considerations
  •  About subnet side rules
    • Filtering LAN traffic from WAN traffic with subnet side rules
  •  About QoS for FTP
    • Active FTP classification
    • Passive FTP classification
  • About QoS for Citrix
  • About inbound QoS
  • About path selection
  • About sites and networks settings
  • About uplink status probes
  • About tunneled uplinks
  • About application definition settings
  •  About QoS settings
    • About QoS class settings
  •  Verifying QoS configurations
    • MX-TCP queue policies
  •  About QoS profiles
    • About out-of-band traffic using DSCP marking
  •  About path selection
    • Using paths to steer packets
  •  Configuring path selection
    • Validating the path selection design
    • Path selection use cases
  •  Configuring path selection in a SteelHead Interceptor cluster
    • Path selection in Interceptor cluster deployment options
    • Configuring path selection on a SteelHead in an Interceptor cluster
•  About DNS Caching
  •  DNS caching settings
    • DNS forwarding name servers
    • Advanced cache
    • Advanced name servers
  • Clearing the cache
•  About Network Integration Features
  • About asymmetric routing features
  • Troubleshooting asymmetric routes
  • Automatically detecting asymmetric routing
  • About connection forwarding features
  • Enabling connection forwarding
  • Adding a new neighbor
  • About IPsec encryption
  • Enabling IPsec encryption
  • About the Secure Peers list
  • About subnet side rules
  • Adding subnet side rules
  • About flow statistics
  • Enabling flow export
  • Adding or removing a flow collector
  • About flow export in virtual in-path deployments
  • Troubleshooting flow export settings
  •  About joining a Windows domain or workgroup
    • Domain and local workgroup settings
  • Configuring a Windows domain in Local Workgroup mode
  • Joining a SteelHead to a Windows domain
  • Configuring a Windows domain in Domain mode
  •  Troubleshooting a domain join failure
    • System time mismatch
    • Invalid domain controller IP
  • About simplified routing features
  • Enabling simplified routing
  • About WCCP
  • Enabling a WCCP service group
  • Adding, modifying, or removing a service group
  • Verifying a multiple in-path interface configuration
  • Modifying WCCP service group settings
  • Configuring Hardware Assist rules
•  About Secure Connections
  • About TLS optimization
  • Preparing to configure TLS optimization
  • Configuring appliances for secure connections
  •  About SSL main settings
    • About automatically generated and signed certificates
  • About server certificates
  • About secure peers
  •  About secure peering settings
    • About peer trust tables
  • About certificate authorities
  • About certificate revocation lists
  • Viewing SSL connection reports
  •  About SSL Simplification
    • Requirements for Client Accelerator as an SSL agent
    • Requirements for Client Accelerator as an optimization and SSL agent
    • Configuring TLS optimization with SSL Simplification
  •  About TLS profiling
    • Host details
    • Server details
    • Client details
•  About Routine Management of SteelHeads
  • Starting, stopping, and restarting the optimization service
  • Configuring scheduled jobs
  •  Upgrading your software
    • Verifying your software image
    • Upgrading or reverting your software version
  • Rebooting and shutting down the SteelHead
  •  Managing licenses and model upgrades
    • Flexible licensing overview
    • For more information
    • Installing a license
    • Upgrading an appliance feature tier
    • Upgrading an appliance model
    • Removing a license
  • Viewing system permissions
  • Managing configuration files
  • Configuring general security settings
  •  Managing user permissions
    • Accounts
  •  Managing password policy
    • Selecting a password policy
    • Applying Session Management
    • Unlocking an account
    • Resetting an expired password
  • Setting RADIUS servers
  • Configuring SAML
  • Configuring TACACS+ access
  • Unlocking the secure vault
  •  Configuring a management ACL
    • ACL management rules
  •  Configuring web settings
    • Managing web SSL certificates
  • Enabling REST API access
  • Configuring an External Certificate
•  About System Administrator Settings
  •  About alarm settings
    • Admission Control
    • Asymmetric Routing
    • Connection Forwarding
    • CPU Utilization
    • Data Store
    • Disk Full
    • Domain Authentication Alert
    • Domain Join Error
    • Hardware
    • Inbound QoS WAN Bandwidth Configuration
    • Licensing
    • Link Duplex
    • Link I/O Errors
    • Link State
    • Local and Remote Logging
    • Memory Paging
    • Neighbor Incompatibility
    • Network Bypass
    • NFS V2/V4 alarm
    • Optimization Service
    • Outbound QoS WAN Bandwidth Configuration
    • Path Selection Path Down
    • Path Selection Path Probing Error
    • Process Dump Creation Error
    • Proxy File Service
    • Secure Transport
    • Secure Vault
    • Software Compatibility
    • SSL
    • Storage Profile Switch Failed
    • System Detail Report
    • Temperature
    • Web Proxy
  • Setting alarm parameters
  • Setting announcements
  •  Configuring email settings
    • SMTP Server
    • SMTP Port
    • Send Reminder of Passthrough Rules via email
    • Report Events via Email
    • Report Failures via Email
    • Override Default Sender’s Address
    • Report Failures to Technical Support
  •  About log settings
    • Adding or replacing a log certificate
    • Adding or removing a remote log server
  • Filtering logs by application or process
  •  About the date and time settings
    • Setting the date and time manually
    • Using Network Time Protocol (NTP) time synchronization
    • Current NTP server status
    • NTP authentication
    • NTP servers
    • Adding an NTP server
    • NTP authentication keys
    • Adding an NTP authentication key
    • NTP key information
  • About monitored ports
  • About SNMP settings
  • Setting general SNMP parameters
  • Adding or removing a trap receiver
  • About SNMPv3
  • Creating users for SNMPv3
  • SNMP authentication and access control
  •  About secure usernames
    • Setting secure groups
    • Setting secure views
    • Adding an access policy
•  Viewing Reports and Logs
  •  About the report format
    • Navigating the report layout
  • Viewing the Current Connection report
  • Viewing the Connection History report
  • Viewing the Connection Forwarding report
  • Viewing the Outbound QoS report
  • Viewing the Inbound QoS report
  • Viewing the Secure Transport report
  • Viewing the Top Talkers report
  • Viewing the Traffic Summary report
  • Viewing the WAN Throughput report
  • Viewing the Application Statistics report
  • Viewing the Application Visibility report
  • Viewing the Interface Counter report
  • Viewing the TCP Statistics report
  • Viewing the Latency Detected Peers report
  • Viewing the Optimized Throughput report
  • Viewing the Bandwidth Optimization report
  • Viewing the Peer Optimization report
  • Viewing the Peer report
  • Viewing the CIFS Prepopulation Share Log report
  • Viewing the HTTP report
  • Viewing the Live Video Stream Splitting report
  • Viewing the NFS report
  • Viewing the SSL report
  • Viewing the SharePoint report
  • Viewing the Data Store Status report
  • Viewing the Data Store SDR-Adaptive report
  • Viewing the Data Store Disk Load report
  • Viewing the Alarm Status report
  • Viewing the CPU Utilization report
  • Viewing the Memory Paging report
  • Viewing the TCP Memory report
  • Viewing the Disk Status report
  • Viewing the System Details report
  • Checking network health status
  •  Checking domain health
    • Common domain health errors
  • Verifying hardware capabilities of a SteelHead-v
  •  Viewing logs
    • Viewing user logs
    • Viewing system logs
  •  Downloading log files
    • Downloading user log files
    • Downloading system log files
  • Generating system dumps
  • Viewing process dumps
  •  Capturing and uploading TCP dump files
    • Capturing TCP dump files with Interceptor deployments
    • Troubleshooting
    • Custom flag use examples
    • IPv6 custom flag use examples
    • Stopping a TCP dump after an event occurs
    • Viewing a TCP dump
    • Uploading a TCP dump
  • Viewing DNS Cache Hit reports
  • Viewing DNS Cache Utilization reports
  • Exporting performance statistics
  • Viewing in-path rule statistics
•  Reference: SteelHead MIB
  •  Accessing the SteelHead enterprise MIB
    • Retrieving optimized traffic statistics by port
  • SNMP traps
•  Reference: SteelHead Ports
  • SteelFusion ports
  • Default ports
  • Commonly excluded ports
  • Interactive ports forwarded by the SteelHead
  • Secure Ports forwarded by the SteelHead
• Reference: Application Signatures for AFE
•  Reference: Feature Support for IPv6
  • Features not supported with IPv6

SteelHead™ User Guide

Reference: Feature Support for IPv6