Introduction to an In-Depth Understanding your Appliance

Introduction to an In-Depth Understanding your Appliance

This section of the help provides a deep understanding of the Exinda Appliance: the network topologies in which they can function, the system configuration, and how, generally, things work.

See the following topics for more information:

Various Network Deployments

Overview of Deployment Topologies

In-path Topologies

Main Site Internet Link Topology

Main Site WAN Link Topology

Distributed Branch Topology

Topologies with Firewalls

Topologies with VPNs

Multiple Link Topology

Out-of-path Topologies

Accelerate Traffic with WCCP

SPAN and Mirror Port Monitoring

Directing traffic with policy-based routing

Cluster and High Availability

Clusters and High Availability

Redundancy through multiple Exinda appliances

Load balancing and fail-over with multiple Exinda appliances

High availability mode

Cluster Interfaces

Create a cluster of Exinda appliances

Cluster Configuration through the CLI

Configuration Reference Guide

Object Definitions

Configure Network Objects

View Dynamic Network Objects

Configure Network Users Objects

Configure Network User Group Objects

Configure VLAN Objects

Configure Protocol Objects

Add Application Objects

Add Application Group Objects

Configure Anonymous Proxy Application Objects

Configure Schedule Objects

Configure Adaptive Response Limit Objects

Configure Application Performance Score Objects

Configure Application Performance Metric Objects

Configure Site Service Level Agreement Objects

Network Settings

NIC Settings

IP Address

Routes

DNS

HTTP Proxy

Email

SNMP

Active Directory

IPMI

System Setup

Date and Time

UI Configuration

SDP Configuration

Configure SQL Access

Monitoring Configuration

Netflow Configuration

Scheduled Jobs

Alerts

License

Control Configuration

Allocate Disk Storage for System Services

Optimization

Services

Configure Exinda Appliance Community

Configure TCP Acceleration

WAN Memory

Configure file acceleration (SMB/CIFS)

Configure SSL acceleration servers

Edge Cache

Pre-population of Acceleration Cache

Certificates

Certificates

View all certificates and private keys

Authentication

Active Users

Local User Accounts

AAA

LDAP Authentication

Radius Authentication

TACACS+ Authentication

System Logging

View Log Files

Live Log

Tail Log

System Logging Configuration

System Diagnostics

Alert Status

Diagnostics Files

TCP Dump

Community Diagnostics

Verify acceleration configuration

Monitor Diagnostics

Optimizer Diagnostics

NIC Diagnostics

RAID Diagnostics

Log a Case

Maintenance

Manage System Configuration

Import System Configuration

Install an update to the Exinda appliance software

Return to the previously installed version of ExOS

Factory Defaults

Reboot the Exinda appliance

Automatically reboot the Exinda appliance

Shutdown the Exinda appliance

Tools

Ping

Traceroute

DNS Lookup

Access the Command Line Interface

IPMI

Iperf Client

Iperf Server

Virtualization

How the Technologies Work

How Traffic Direction is Determined and its Implications

How Network Performance Metrics are Calculated

How an Application Performance Score is Calculated

How Dual Bridge Bypass Works

How Traffic Shaping Queuing Modes Work

How Appliance Discovery Works (for Acceleration)

How CIFS/SMB (File Transfer) Acceleration Works

How SSL Protocol Acceleration Works

How Edge Cache Works

How ToS and DiffServ Work