Defining Site Types
You define site types in the Sites & Networks page.
Site types group one or more sites based on their business organization or other functionality. Riverbed creates three basic site types for you: Data Center, Headquarters, and Branch. You can create other site types in addition to these default site types. When you create sites, you must provide the site type that the site belongs. Site types are the building blocks for QoS profiles and pushing new features in SCC 9.0 and later to SteelHeads.
You must create site and sites types before migrating or configuring QoS. When creating QoS profiles, Riverbed recommends selecting site types rather than sites to make QoS more manageable. A QoS profile is a container for QoS rules and classes that apply to a source and destination site type or site. Sites should only be selected when creating exceptions for QoS profiles containing the site types. When you push QoS profiles, only the selected site types or sites in the push are applied to the QoS profiles. For detailed information about migrating QoS policies and configuring QoS, see
Managing QoS.
The default site types cannot be deleted or modified.
To define a site type
1. Choose Manage > Topology: Sites & Networks to display the Sites & Networks page.
2. Under Site Types, click the > to expand the page.
3. Click the + to display the New Site Type pop-up window.
Figure: Defining Site Types
4. Complete the configuration as described in this table.
Control | Description |
Site Type name | Specify the name for the site type. The name must be unique and cannot contain spaces or special characters. |
Description | Specify a description for the site type. This description will help you make configuration changes and to associate issues with particular sites. |
5. Click Save to save your settings.