SteelHeads must be registered with the SCC so that you can monitor and manage them with the SCC.

SteelHeads are designed to send a registration request periodically to the SCC—either to an IP address or hostname you specify when you run the SteelHead configuration wizard, or to a default SCC hostname. For autoregistration with the default hostname to work, you must configure your DNS server to map to the hostname riverbedcmc and the IP address of the SCC either as a CNAME or as an A record.

During autoregistration, the SteelHeads don’t send passwords to the SCC. Unless the password value has been modified in the Manage Appliances page, the SCC assumes that the default password is password. For details, see Adding appliances.

After a SteelHead is registered, you can set autoconfiguration to automatically push the current configuration when the SteelHead connects.