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Steelhead Appliance Installation and Configuration Guide
Installing and Configuring the Steelhead Appliance
Connecting to the Steelhead Appliance
Connecting to the Steelhead Appliance
To access the configuration wizard and the Steelhead CLI, you establish a serial connection using a terminal
emulator program.
To connect to the Steelhead appliance
1.
Plug the serial cable into the Console port and a terminal.
Figure 2-5. Connecting to the Steelhead Appliance
2.
Start your terminal emulation program, such as Tera Term Pro. The terminal device must have the
following settings:
Baud rate: 9600 bps
Data bits: 8
Parity: none
Stop bits: 1
vt100 emulation
No flow control
Note:
If you are using the Steelhead appliance with a terminal server, the terminal server must use hardware flow
control for the port connected to the Steelhead appliance.
Tip:
Riverbed recommends you connect the console port to a device that logs output. Although this is not a
requirement, it can help you to identify problems with the system.
3.
Log in as administrator user (admin) and enter the default password (password). For example:
login as: admin
Sent username "admin"
password: password
The configuration wizard automatically starts after you have entered the login and default password.
After you have established connection, you configure the Steelhead appliance using the configuration
wizard:
For in-path configurations, see
“Configuring In-Path Steelhead Appliances,”
next.
For out-of-path configurations, see