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 preface includes the following sections:

• About this guide

• Documentation and release notes

• Contacting Riverbed

About this guide

The Riverbed Command-Line Interface Reference Manual is a reference manual for the command-line interface.

This guide includes relevant information about these products:

• Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS system)

• Riverbed SteelHead (SteelHead)

• Riverbed SteelHead CX (SteelHead CX)

• Riverbed SteelHead EX (SteelHead EX)

• Riverbed SteelHead (in the cloud) (SteelHead-c)

• Riverbed SteelHead (virtual edition) (SteelHead-v)

• Riverbed SteelHead SaaS (SteelHead SaaS)

• Riverbed SteelHead Interceptor (Interceptor)

• Riverbed SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead (SCC or Controller)

• Riverbed SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile (Mobile Controller)

This manual provides you with command descriptions, syntax, parameters, usage guidelines, examples, and related commands information.

Audience

This guide is written for storage and network administrators familiar with administering and managing WANs using common network protocols such as TCP, CIFS, HTTP, FTP, and NFS.

Document conventions

This manual uses the following standard set of typographical conventions.

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.
Courier	Code examples appear in Courier font: amnesiac > enable amnesiac # configure terminal
< >	Values that you specify appear in angle brackets: interface <ip-address>
[ ]	Optional keywords or variables appear in 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>}

Documentation and release notes

The most current version of all Riverbed documentation can be found on the Riverbed Support site at https://support.riverbed.com.

See the Riverbed Knowledge Base for any known issues, how-to documents, system requirements, and common error messages. You can browse titles or search for keywords and strings. To access the Riverbed Knowledge Base, log in to the Riverbed Support site at https://support.riverbed.com.

Each software release includes release notes. The release notes list new features, known issues, and fixed problems. To obtain the most current version of the release notes, go to the Software and Documentation section of the Riverbed Support site at http://www.riverbed.com/services/index.html.

Examine the release notes before you begin the installation and configuration process.

Contacting Riverbed

This section describes how to contact departments within Riverbed.

• Technical support - Problems installing, using, or replacing Riverbed products? Contact Riverbed Support or your channel partner who provides support. To contact Riverbed Support, open a trouble ticket by calling 1-888-RVBD-TAC (1-888-782-3822) in the United States and Canada or +1 415-247-7381 outside the United States. You can also go to https://support.riverbed.com.

• Professional services - Need help with planning a migration or implementing a custom design solution? Contact Riverbed Professional Services. Email proserve@riverbed.com or go to http://www.riverbed.com/services/index.html.

• Documentation - Have suggestions about Riverbed’s online documentation or printed materials? Send comments to techpubs@riverbed.com.