SteelCentral™ Enterprise NetProfiler Appliance Installation Guide
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Licensing strategy
Preparing the Installation
Licensing strategy
Capacity and feature licenses must be activated on the Riverbed licensing web site. SteelCentral products that have
been configured and have access to Internet automatically download the license keys that have been assigned to their
serial numbers on the licensing web site. If the appliance does not have Internet access, then you must add its license
keys manually.
The licensing web site provides the flexibility to assign different feature and capacity licenses to different appliances.
You can ship appliances to remote locations without concern for which appliance is to have which license. When you
have the serial numbers and know where the appliances are deployed in the network, you can make the license
assignments on the Riverbed licensing web site.
When all the appliances are to be licensed for the same features and capacities, the licensing web site handles this
automatically. The appliances can automatically download their licenses without your needing to visit the licensing
web site.
Downloading and adding license keys
If the NetProfiler is configured and has Internet connectivity, it can download its license keys automatically.
Otherwise, someone must email the keys from the Riverbed licensing web site and then copy them from the email, or
else copy them directly from the Riverbed licensing web site, and then someone must add them to the NetProfiler
manually. Determine which strategy you are using.
Will you activate the licenses on the Riverbed licensing web site yourself? Or will someone else do that?
If the NetProfiler you are installing does not have Internet access, how will you ensure that it gets its assigned
license keys? Will you email them to yourself from the Riverbed licensing site? Will you copy them from the
Riverbed licensing site? Or will someone else provide the license keys for you to add to the NetProfiler
manually?
Typically the installer:
1.
Mounts, cables and configures this appliance and the other SteelCentral products that were ordered with it.
2.
Records the product serial number from the chassis of each appliance. The number identified as “SN” is the
product serial number. It is located on the pull-out tab near the upper-left corner of the front of the chassis.
Security Profile settings:*
You can use either three traffic collection profiles (weekdays,
weeknights, and weekends) or four (weekdays, weeknights,
Saturdays, and Sundays). After installation, you can define
others. You can also specify the times when weekdays begin
and end (default times are 9:00 am to 5:00 pm).
Password to use for your initial NetProfiler login:*
The default password
admin
.
New password to enter when prompted to change the initial
NetProfiler password:*
Applies only to systems not previously configured.
Service Management
Leave this set to
ByLocation
unless you are required to
choose another group type for service locations.
