Welcome

Welcome to the Riverbed Command-Line Interface Reference Manual. Read this preface for an overview of the information provided in this guide and the documentation conventions used throughout, hardware and software dependencies, additional reading, and contact information. This guide is written for storage and network administrators familiar with administering and managing WANs using common network protocols such as TCP, SMB/CIFS, HTTP, FTP, and NFS.

Term	Abbreviation	Meaning
SteelHead SteelHead (Virtual Edition) SteelHead Cloud Cloud Accelerator	— SteelHead-v — —	The physical or virtual appliance that, together with other appliances, provides acceleration and other services. Also referred to as the appliance.
Cloud Portal	portal	The Riverbed-hosted multi-tenant management service for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure Cloud Accelerator. Primarily used for license management.
SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead	SCC	The management component used to create and push policies to managed appliances. It also provides reporting capabilities. Also referred to as the controller.
SaaS Accelerator Manager	SAM	The multi-tenant management component of the Riverbed-hosted SaaS acceleration service.
Client Accelerator solution	—	The multi-product solution for accelerating applications end-to-end, from data center or cloud to user endpoint devices.
Client Accelerator Controller	controller	The management component used to create and push policies to managed appliances. It also provides reporting capabilities. Also referred to as the controller.
Management Console	—	The graphical user interface (GUI) used to manage appliances.
Riverbed Optimization System	RiOS	The acceleration service.
hypervisor	—	The software that provides virtualization services and on which virtual machines run.
virtual machine	VM	A software computer system running as a guest on the host hypervisor. Riverbed virtual products run on the virtual machine.
datastore data store	— —	The virtual machine’s data disk, backed by physical storage media. The appliance’s data storage.

Convention	Meaning
italics	Within text, new terms and emphasized words appear in italic typeface.
boldface	Within text, CLI commands, CLI parameters, and REST API properties appear in bold typeface.
Monospace	Code examples appear in monospace font: amnesiac > enable amnesiac # configure terminal
< >	Values that you specify appear in angle brackets: interface <ip-address>
[ ]	Optional keywords or variables appear in square brackets: ntp peer <ip-address> [version <number>]
{ }	Elements that are part of a required choice appear in braces: {<interface-name> \| ascii <string> \| hex <string>}
\|	The pipe symbol separates alternative, mutually exclusive elements of a choice. The pipe symbol is used in conjunction with braces or brackets; the braces or brackets group the choices and identify them as required or optional: {delete <filename> \| upload <filename>}