You can configure SSL optimization under Optimization > SSL: SSL Main Settings. Enabling SSL allows you to accelerate encrypted traffic (for example, HTTPS).

The appliance securely decrypts, optimizes, and then reencrypts SSL traffic. To configure SSL support, you do not need to make configuration changes on the client and the server—clients continue connecting to the same server name or IP address.

Under General SSL Settings, complete the configuration on both the client-side appliance and server-side SteelHead:

Enables SSL optimization, which accelerates applications that use SSL to encrypt traffic. By default, this option is disabled. You can choose to enable SSL optimization only on certain sessions (based on source and destination addresses, subnets, and ports), or on all SSL sessions, or on no SSL sessions at all. An SSL session that is not optimized simply passes through the SteelHead unmodified.

After you apply and save your changes, you must restart the optimization service.