Managing SteelHead-c virtual appliances
The Appliances page lists all appliances associated with the currently selected company and includes the following information about each appliance.
Note: Some features are available only for appliances hosted in AWS and deployed directly through the portal.
• Name - Displays the user-configurable appliance name. This name is specific to the Riverbed Cloud Portal; it might not appear in a cloud vendor’s management tool (such as the Amazon EC2 Management Console) because the vendor might not support such metadata.
• Cloud - Indicates the cloud service or platform on which the appliance is hosted.
• License - Displays the Riverbed license associated with the appliance.
• State - Indicates the current state of the appliance or its license or both.
• VM Uptime - Displays the duration for which the appliance has been running.
• Creation Time - Indicates date and time when the appliance was provisioned.
• Description - Displays the user-configurable description entered when the appliance was created.
You can view information about and perform simple management operations on specific appliances directly through the portal by clicking the name of an appliance listed on the Appliances page.
You can also manage your SteelHead-c virtual appliances through the SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead. See the SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead User’s Guide for details.
An appliance’s home page is organized into the following tabs.
Cloud
Platform | Tab | Description |
All cloud platforms | Summary | Displays basic information about the appliance such as Name, Description, State, License, Version, and a link to the appliance’s management console. |
Details* | Displays information such as Uptime, Creation Time, UUID, and Architecture. |
Event Log | Displays information about events associated with the appliance. |
AWS only | Network Controls | Displays information about the appliance’s network configuration. |
AWS Console | Displays output of the virtual serial console that is connected to the host virtual machine. |
* Details for SteelHead-c for AWS virtual appliances are different than those for appliances on other platforms. |
To view a list of all appliances under the currently selected company
1. Log in to the portal and select the Cloud Appliances tab.
2. If your user account is associated with multiple companies, select the company that contains the appliances you want to view.
3. Select Appliances.