SteelCentral™ Enterprise NetProfiler Appliance Installation Guide
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CHAPTER 1
Introduction
This guide describes installing the Riverbed® SteelCentral™ Enterprise NetProfiler. It assumes that you have mounted
the product in the rack as described in the
Rack Installation Guide
for SteelCentral model xx80 series products.
This guide describes how you prepare the product, the cabling of the product, how to configure it on your network,
activate the licenses, and verify that the appliance is receiving and processing traffic data.
After you complete these tasks, the Enterprise NetProfiler is ready to configure operationally. Operational
configuration is described in the online help system of each product.
This guide also describes how you download new software from the Riverbed Support site and install it, in case you
need to do so.
Note:
Command Line Interface access to NetProfiler is supported for only initial setup and maintenance purposes. Installing
additional software or modifying configurations via the CLI are not supported and may cause unexpected behavior or stability
issues.
This guide includes:
Chapter 2, “Preparing the Enterprise NetProfiler for Installation”
Chapter 4, “Configuring the Software”
Chapter 5, “Updating NetProfiler Software”
Chapter 7, “Configuring License Keys”
Chapter 8, “Adding Expansion Modules”
Additional Resources
The primary source of product information is the online help system. Additional information is available from the
Riverbed Support site at
https://support.riverbed.com
. This includes:
Release Notes
- posted in the software section of the page for your product.