About next steps
Our user guides assume that you’ve already determined the right deployment scenario, prepped and installed the appliance into your network, and ran the appliance’s initial configuration wizard. If you haven’t, and you need help, consult our other guides that provide extensive information about those steps, or contact Riverbed Support.
After you’ve completed the appliance’s initial configuration, it’s time to start customizing the product for your specific needs. You may want to:
• configure general service settings, which include the option to enable out-of-path support.
• for large, complex environments, configure groups, or labels, of hosts, ports, and domains to make configuration easier.
• for client-side appliances, configure peering rules to define how the appliance creates peering relationships with, typically, server-side appliances.
• for in-path deployments, configure in-path rules to control how the appliance responds to connection probes from other appliances and what it does with the traffic.
• enable features for accelerating specific application protocols and secure traffic.
• define quality of service (QoS) profiles, path selection rules, and related application groups to provide prioritized service level for your applications.
• define sites and networks, used with QoS and path selection, to shape and direct traffic.
• distribute administrative responsibility by configuring secure access for other administrators, monitor users, or other types of users.
• configure failover behavior.
• configure administrator settings, such as alarms, SNMP, logging, security, maintenance, system configurations, and more.