Centralized Configuration, Monitoring & Control

The Riverbed Central Management Console (CMC) simplifies the process of deploying and managing Steelhead appliances distributed across a WAN. With this turnkey solution, you can easily configure, monitor, and report on Steelhead appliances – all through one Web-based interface.

The CMC also gives you visibility into how applications are performing across all Steelhead appliances in an enterprise. It can display reporting metrics, such as WAN traffic levels, application throughput performance, and TCP session flow characteristics, over configurable intervals of time going back a full year. Its variable reporting modes provide the underlying application insight you need to help diagnose problems and maintain control over the WAN application infrastructure.

For Riverbed customers, service provider and systems integrator partners, a virtual edition version of the CMC-VE is also available. The CMC-VE is a software-only version of the Riverbed CMC providing the full range of capabilities but designed to run as a virtualized service on VMware platforms. This enables customers to deploy the CMC-VE very cost effectively and efficiently scale the administration of tens or hundreds Steelhead appliances, reducing the total cost of ownership of WAN optimization in the enterprise. The virtual platform also provides flexible migration of virtual machines between hardware platforms and high-availability features for increased fault tolerance.

Features Summary

• Central configuration
  • Touchless Steelhead configuration
  • Flexible group management
  • Intuitive configuration profiles
  • Scheduled operations
  • Central configuration and image libraries
  • SSL certificate management

• Central health monitoring
  • Appliance and network health monitoring
  • Central log retrieval
  • CMC-specific SNMP MIB

• Global performance reporting
  • Aggregated performance reports
  • Dynamic report generation
  • Customizable pages