Steelhead Appliance Installation and Configuration Guide
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Configuring Out-of-Path Steelhead Appliances
Installing and Configuring the Steelhead Appliance
Connecting the Steelhead Appliance to Your Network
You use a CAT-5E straight-through cable to connect the Primary port of the Steelhead appliance to the LAN
switch in an out-of-path configuration.
To connect the Steelhead appliance to your network
Plug the straight-through cable into the Primary port of the Steelhead appliance and the LAN switch.
This can be any port on your LAN switch which is configured to connect to a host.
Figure 2-12. Connecting the Primary Port and LAN Switch
Configuring the Client-Side Appliance
In an out-of-path configuration, you configure the client-side, Steelhead appliance in the same way as an
in-path configuration. For optimization to occur, you must define a fixed-target rule on the client-side
Steelhead appliance that points to the out-of-path, server-side Steelhead appliance. You can define fixed-
target rules using the Management Console or the CLI.
For detailed information about the Management Console, see the Steelhead Management Console User’s Guide.
For detailed information about the CLI, see the Riverbed Command-Line Interface Reference Manual.
The following procedures describe how to configure in-path rules using the Management Console.
To configure the client-side Steelhead appliance
1.
Follow the procedures for an in-path configuration. For details, see
“Configuring In-Path Steelhead
2.
Connect to the Management Console. For details, see
“Connecting to the Management Console” on
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