About SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead

SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead (SCC) provides centralized control and management of your Riverbed products that accelerate and enhance application performance.

The SCC enables you to configure, monitor, upgrade, and troubleshoot Riverbed products, including physical and virtual SteelHead, SteelHead Interceptor, Cloud Accelerator, SaaS Accelerator, and Client Accelerator appliances.

The SCC provides these centralized management capabilities:

• Streamlines configuration and ongoing management of large Riverbed product deployments.

• Simplifies configuration management with flexible group features to deploy consistent configurations to a specific location, business function, or a preferred grouping.

• Provides cluster management for the SteelHead Interceptor appliances.

• Facilitates configuration by automatically deriving all application path possibilities across all SteelHeads in your deployment.

…and these aggregate and granular reporting capabilities:

• Provides flexible reporting on performance improvements for the entire SteelHead deployment, specific groups, or individual SteelHeads.

• Reports on bandwidth usage, bandwidth compression, and specific performance of particular ports, applications, and appliances.

• Displays a centralized view of the overall health of all appliances in your deployment.

…and these visibility, control, and optimization capabilities:

• Provides global views by sites and applications.

• Using the path selection feature, dynamically selects the best path based on application-aware, business intent-based policies and network availability.

• Delivers improved visibility with end-user monitoring for all optimized traffic, including optimized web and SaaS applications.

SCC deployment

This chapter also assumes that you’re familiar with the various deployment options available to you. For details, see the SteelHead Deployment Guide and the SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Deployment Guide.

We recommend that you don’t use the Riverbed CLI to configure the SCC.