• SteelCentral™ Controller for SteelHead™ User Guide
•  Welcome
  •  About this guide
    • Audience
    • Document conventions
  • Documentation and release notes
  • Contacting Riverbed
•  Product Overview
  •  Hardware and software dependencies
    • Hardware and software requirements
    • SCC compatibility
    • Legacy policy push restrictions
    • Firewall requirements
  •  Upgrading the SCC
    • Image signature verification
    • Upgrade considerations
    • Recommended upgrade paths
    • Upgrading the SCC software version
    • Migration procedures
  • SteelHead autoregistration
  • SCC scaling best practices
  • HTTPS communication channel
  • Connecting SteelHeads when the SCC is behind a firewall
  • Connecting to the SCC Management Console
  •  Dashboard
    • Dashboard
    • Viewing appliance status
  •  Navigating in the SCC
    • Intelligent search bar
    • Saving your configuration
    • Printing pages and reports
    • Getting help
•  SCC Best Practices
  •  Best practices for SCC 9.9
    • Latency detection
    • Peering mode for client authentication
    • Riverbed software image verification
    • Enhanced host proxy settings
  •  Best practices for SCC 9.8
    • Security Assertion Markup Language
  •  Best practices for SCC 9.7
    • Restricted policy access for role-based management users
    • Unmanaged Appliances report
  •  Best practices for SCC 9.6
    • SCC scales to 2500 appliances
    • System administrator accounts on the SCC
    • Safety accounts on the SCC
    • Web proxy on VCX models
    • IPv6 connection forwarding support in Interceptor clusters
    • Temporary password on the SCC
    • Capturing TCP dumps for Interceptor clusters
  •  Best practices for SCC 9.5
    • SCC scaling guidelines
    • Configuring SSL-signed proxy certificates
    • Importing CAs into the SCC trusted store
    • Web proxy improvements
    • IPv6 support
  •  Best practices for configuring hybrid networking 9.0 or later
    • Network topology
    • Application performance
    • Hybrid network path selection probing techniques
    • Hybrid networking workflow
  •  Best practices for SCC 9.1 and 9.2
    • Autonegotiation of Multi-Stream ICA
    • HTTPS communication channel
    • MAPI over HTTP optimization
    • Migrating appliances to sites
    • Order of migration
    • Pushing hybrid networking features
    • QoS migration
    • SteelCentral AppResponse support
    • Web proxy
•  Configuring Administration Settings
  •  Configuring networking settings
    • Configuring general host settings
    • Configuring base interfaces
  •  Configuring system settings
    • Setting announcements
    • Configuring alarm parameters
    • Configuring the date and time
    • Configuring monitored ports
    • Configuring SNMP basic settings
    • Configuring SNMPv3
    • Configuring SNMP authentication and access control
    • Configuring email notification
    • Configuring log settings
    • Changing the account password
    • Managing configuration files
  •  Configuring security settings
    • Configuring general security settings
    • Configuring SCC security
    • Importing a certificate authority
    • Importing CAs into the trusted CA store
    • Managing user permissions
    • Configuring password policy
    • Selecting a password policy
    • Setting RADIUS servers
    • Configuring TACACS+ access
    • Configuring SAML
    • Unlocking the secure vault
    • Configuring a management ACL
    • Configuring web settings
    • Enabling REST API access
  •  Configuring maintenance settings
    • Managing external backups
    • Setting daily maintenance window settings
    • Displaying scheduled jobs
    • Managing licenses
    • Upgrading your software
    • Rebooting and shutting down the SCC
•  Managing Your Network
  •  Managing sites and networks
    • How is a site different from an appliance?
    • Before you begin
    • Defining networks
    • Defining sites
    • Defining site connectivity templates
    • Defining site types
    • Defining site regions
    • Creating a secure transport concentrator
    • Viewing site details
    • Defining uplinks
    • Defining uplink types
  •  Managing appliances
    • Migrating appliances to sites
    • Managing appliance groups
    • Adding appliances
    • Filtering the display of appliances
    • Managing appliance settings
    • Managing appliance operations
    • Fetching appliance-specific configurations
    • Performing global policy pushes
    • Trusting appliances using security keys
    •  Managing appliance pages
      • Managing host settings
      • Managing base interfaces
      • Managing in-path interface settings
      • Managing subnet side rules
      • Managing SSL settings
      • Managing licenses
      • Managing web settings and web certificates
      • Managing outbound QoS interfaces
      • Managing legacy inbound QoS interfaces
      • Managing path selection
      • Managing connection forwarding
      • Managing web proxy cache settings
      • Managing SteelFusion Core settings
      • Managing Virtual Services Platform
      • Managing data interfaces
      • Managing SAML
  •  Managing policies
    • Policy types
    • Basic steps to create and push a policy
    • Adding policies
    • Configuring policy pages
    • Copying an existing policy
    • Importing polices from appliance configurations
    • Merging policies
    • Editing policies
    • Overriding policy settings from a parent group
    • Policy page conflicts
    • Assigning policies to appliances and groups
  •  Managing Interceptor clusters
    • Adding a cluster using the wizard
    • Configuring cluster in-path rules
    • Configuring cluster load-balancing rules
    • Configuring path selection on Interceptor clusters
    • Editing clusters
    • Fetching cluster configurations from remote appliances
    • Pushing cluster configuration settings
    • Removing clusters
•  Managing Hybrid Network Services
  •  Managing path selection
    • Configuring application groups using the path selection wizard
    • Configuring path selection rules
    • Pushing your settings and viewing push status
  •  Managing secure transport
    • Overview of secure transport
    • Typical workflow for configuring secure transport
    • Configuring the secure transport controller on the SteelHead
    • Activating the secure transport controller on the SCC
    • Adding appliances to the secure transport group
    • Configuring secure transport group settings
    • Viewing active secure transport status
    • Viewing group traffic information
    • Viewing secure group members
  •  Managing QoS
    • QoS overview
    • Enabling and disabling QoS
    • Adding a QoS profile
    • Adding classes and rules to QoS profiles
    • Pushing your settings and viewing push status
  • Migrating legacy QoS policies
  •  Managing application policies
    • Defining applications
    • Viewing application details and statistics
    • Enabling statistics collection for applications
•  Managing Optimization
  •  Managing web proxies
    • Enabling HTTP web proxy
    • Enabling HTTPS web proxy
    •  Configuring web proxy profiles
      • Modifying web proxy profiles
    • Configuring parent proxy chaining
    • Pushing your settings and viewing push status
•  Managing Appliance Operations and Upgrades
  • Managing appliance operation history
  •  Managing backups and restores
    • Assigning rollover strategy
    • Backing up an appliance configuration settings
    • Restoring an appliance configuration settings
    • Migrating the current state of a source appliance
  • Upgrading appliances
  • Downgrading appliances
  • Performing an in-field software upgrade to SteelHead SD
  • Uploading local software images
  • Viewing remote software images
  • Rebooting appliances
•  Managing Virtual Appliances
  •  Managing virtual appliances
    • Managing virtualization services
    • Managing RSP and VSP packages and slots
  • Managing the package library
  • Managing the image library
•  Viewing Reports
  •  Overview
    • Navigating the report layout
  •  Data grouping
    • Grouping and approximation
  • Exporting statistics
  •  Viewing connection history reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing connection forwarding reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing connection pooling reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing outbound QoS reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing inbound QoS reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing traffic summary reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report data
  •  Viewing optimized throughput reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing bandwidth optimization reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing performance details reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing DNS cache hits reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing DNS cache utilization reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing HTTP reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing NFS reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing SnapMirror reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing SRDF reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing SSL servers reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  • Viewing web proxy reports
  • Viewing data store status reports
  •  Viewing data store SDR-adaptive reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing data store disk load reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
  •  Viewing appliance PFS data reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing LUN I/O reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing initiator I/O reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing network I/O reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing blockstore metrics reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  • Viewing appliance status
  • Viewing unmanaged appliances
  •  Viewing admission control data
    • What this report tells you
•  Viewing Diagnostic Reports and Logs
  •  Viewing SCC alarm status reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report data
  •  Viewing SCC CPU utilization reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
    • About report data
  •  Viewing SCC memory paging reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
  •  Viewing SCC user and system logs
    • Viewing user logs reports
    • Viewing system logs reports
  •  Downloading SCC user and system logs
    • Downloading user logs reports
    • Downloading system log files reports
  • Generating SCC system dumps
  • Viewing SCC process dump files
  • Creating SCC TCP dump files
  •  Viewing appliance details reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report data
  •  Viewing health check details reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report data
  •  Viewing appliance CPU utilization reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
  •  Viewing appliance memory paging reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
  •  Viewing appliance TCP memory reports
    • What this report tells you
    • About report graphs
  •  Downloading appliance logs
    • About report data
  • Generating appliance system dumps
  •  Managing TCP Dumps
    • Creating Appliance TCP dumps
    • Capturing TCP dumps for Interceptor clusters
    • Troubleshooting
    • Custom flag use examples
    • Stopping a TCP dump after an event occurs
    • Viewing a TCP dump
    • Uploading a TCP dump
  •  Viewing appliance expiring certificates
    • What this report tells you
    • About report data
•  Policy Pages Reference
  •  Networking policy settings
    • Host settings
    • WCCP
    • Hardware assist rules
    • Simplified routing
    • Asymmetric routing
    • Flow statistics
    • Outbound QoS (basic)
    • Outbound QoS (advanced)
    •  Outbound QoS interfaces
      • Outbound QoS (basic) WAN link
      • Outbound QoS (advanced) WAN Link
      • Version Incompatibilities for Outbound QoS Interfaces
    • Inbound QoS
    •  Inbound QoS interfaces
      • Version Incompatibilities for Inbound QoS Interfaces
    •  Path selection
      • Version Incompatibilities for Path Selection
    • Port labels
    • Host labels
    • When to use host labels
    • Domain labels
    • When to use
    • Dependencies
  •  Optimization policy settings
    • General service settings
    • In-path rules
    • General settings (SteelHead Interceptor)
    • Peering rules
    • Xbridge
    • Transport rules
    • Service ports
    • RiOS data store
    • Performance
    • CIFS (SMB1)
    • SMB2/3
    • CIFS prepopulation
    • HTTP
    • Oracle forms
    • MAPI
    • NFS
    • Lotus Notes
    • Citrix
    • FCIP
    • SRDF
    • SnapMirror
    • Windows domain authentication
    • SSL main settings
    • Secure peering (SSL)
    • Certificate authorities (SSL)
    • CRL management (SSL)
    • Advanced settings (SSL)
    • Secure peering (IPSEC)
    • Cloud accelerator
  •  Branch services settings
    • Caching DNS
    • RSP/VSP slots
    • RSP/VSP data flow
    • Common branch storage settings
    • Common VSP settings
  •  System settings policies
    • Alarms
    • Announcements
    • Email
    • Logging
    • Monitored ports
    • SNMP ACLs
    • SNMP basic
    • SNMPv3
    • NTP settings
    • Time zone
  •  Security policy settings
    • General security settings
    • User permissions
    • Password policy
    • RADIUS
    • TACACS+
    • SAML
    • Management ACL
    • REST API access
•  Riverbed System Ports
  • Default ports
  • SteelFusion ports
  • Commonly excluded ports
  • Interactive ports forwarded by the SteelHead
  • Secure ports forwarded by the SteelHead
•  SCC Management Information Base
  • Accessing MIB files
  •  SNMP traps
    • Alarms
    • SteelHead Interceptor
    • SteelHead Mobile
    • SteelHead EX
    • SteelFusion Core

SteelCentral™ Controller for SteelHead™ User Guide

SCC Management Information Base