Managing appliances
You manage Riverbed appliances through Manage > Topology: Appliances on the SCC. The SCC uses appliance groups and appliance policies to centralize the configuration, monitoring, and reporting of remote appliances.
Appliance groups simplify large-scale management. You can organize them by location, features, or other criteria. Group-level settings—like policies, configurations, and passwords—can be applied and pushed to all members of a group at once. All groups and appliances exist within a default root group called Global, and the SCC supports up to 1,500 appliance groups. However, managing 1,500+ appliances may slow down pushes and initial software upgrades.
Appliance policies define configuration settings for either a group or a single appliance. Policies applied at the Global group are inherited by all child groups and appliances. You can override individual settings at any level, allowing for flexibility in how configurations are applied. For detailed information about adding and configuring policies, see
Managing application policies.The Appliances page displays all managed appliances and groups. It includes:
• Groups and Managed Appliances—Lists individual appliances and appliance groups. You can expand listed items to view their details.
• Product/Model—Indicates the appliance type and its model number.
• Connection—Indicates the current connection status for the SCC and the appliance and displays the alarm status for the appliance. The status represents the most severely triggered alarm. If two equally severe alarms have been triggered, the status representing the newer alarm is displayed. Click the error message to go to the Appliance Details page where the appliance alarms and their status are listed.
• Cluster—Indicates whether the appliance is part of a cluster.
• Branch managed—Indicates whether the item is managed individually at the branch office (you can’t manage this appliance from the SCC).
• Auto-configure—Indicates that a policy push will occur the next time the appliance connects to the SCC.
• Push recommended—Indicates that the appliance configuration is out of synchronization with the relevant SCC policies, and that a policy push from the SCC to the appliance is recommended.
• Policies—Indicates the policies assigned to the group or appliance.
• Site—Indicates the site to which the appliance belongs.
• Time zone—Indicates the time zone for the appliance.
The Interceptor and the Client Accelerator have limited functionality in the Appliance/Group table.