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SteelCentral™ Network Performance Management Deployment Guide
Preface
About This Guide
Documentation and Release Notes
Contacting Riverbed
What Is New
Chapter 1 SteelCentral NPM Overview
What Is SteelCentral NPM?
Overview of the SteelCentral NPM Products
Chapter 2 SteelCentral NPM Deployment Scenarios
Choosing the Right Equipment
Deployment Scenarios
Port and Protocol Dependencies
NetProfiler and NetExpress Flow Storage
Flow Redundancy with SteelCentral
Chapter 3 Flow Collection for SteelCentral
Base Requirements
Flow Data Fields Consumed by NetProfiler
Flow Type Considerations
Flow Collection Considerations
Flow Collection in Virtual Environments
Validating Flow Collection
Sample Third-Party Configurations
Chapter 4 Packet Collection for SteelCentral
SteelCentral for Packet Collection
Port Mirroring and SPAN
Network TAP Instrumentation
VACL Configuration Examples
NetShark Passthru
Packet Deduplication
Snaplen
Chapter 5 SteelCentral and SteelHead Integration
SteelHead and SteelCentral Overview
SteelCentral Appliance Deployment Considerations
Configuring SteelHead for Flow Data Export
NetProfiler and SteelHead Integration
Chapter 6 NetProfiler and RPM Dashboard Integration
Chapter 7 Additional SteelCentral Integration
SNMP Integration
SNMP for Switch Port Discovery
Switch Port Discovery Supported Routers and Switches
Active Directory
REST API
Chapter 8 NetProfiler Analytics and Service Monitoring
Analytic License Limits per NetProfiler Platform
Understanding the Analytics License Limits
Reducing the Number of Metrics
Conditions Required for Baseline Establishment
Determining Which Metrics to Use
Chapter 9 Troubleshooting the NetProfiler
RTT Values Not Available
Not Receiving Reports by Email
DNS Names Not Being Resolved in Reports
Reports Are Not DNS-Resolving All Addresses
Data in Reports Seems Inconsistent
Sensor Protocol Violations
Communication Issues
Switch Port Discovery Troubleshooting
Appendix A Licensing
Licensing Overview
License Installation
Packet Analyzer Licensing
Assigning Licenses
Manual License Installation
Automatic License Upgrades
Evaluation Licenses
Licenses Available