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Summary of Contents for Riverbed Cascade Shark series
- Page 1 Cascade Shark Appliance ® ® Quick Start Guide Version 10.6 March 2014...
- Page 2 Stingray™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Riverbed and any Riverbed product or service name or logo used herein are trademarks of Riverbed Technology. All other trademarks used herein belong to their respective owners. The trademarks and logos displayed herein cannot be used without the prior written consent of Riverbed Technology or their respective owners.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Management network connections ........................ 6 Interface (capture port) connections ......................6 Power cables ................................7 Configuration ..................................7 Initial setup ................................7 Installation Verification ..............................9 Additional Configuration ............................10 Contacting Riverbed ..............................11 Cascade Shark Appliance Quick Start Guide... - Page 4 Cascade Shark Appliance Quick Start Guide...
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Page 5: Overview
Email: support@riverbed.com Web: https://support.riverbed.com 4. Unpack the contents of the shipping cartons and inventory the contents against the shipping documentation. 5. If any components of the order are damaged or missing, contact Riverbed Support. Cascade Shark Appliance Quick Start Guide... -
Page 6: Preparation For Installation
Preparation for installation The Cascade Shark appliance must be receiving traffic from at least one source in order for you to Data sources verify successful installation and configuration. The traffic source can be a tap or a mirror (SPAN) port on a switch or router. The Cascade Shark appliance is shipped with rack mounting rails. -
Page 7: Access To Network
TCP/22 – (ssh) Command line interface TCP/443 – (https) Web interface and control from Cascade Pilot software • TCP or UDP/514 – Default port for external log use, configured in Shark web UI • TCP/41017 – Traffic data to Riverbed Cascade Profiler appliances • ®... -
Page 8: All Other Cascade Shark Models (2U And 3U Chassis)
To install the appliance in a rack: 1. Locate the long brackets that have the mounting ears for the back of the rack. (They are labeled BACK.) 2. Insert the pins of the long brackets into the slots in the outer rails and secure the brackets to the rails with the screws provided. -
Page 9: Cabling
3. If desired, use additional screws to secure the front of the chassis to the rack. Cabling Initial setup requires the use of either the KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) connectors or the console Console connections serial port connector. If you use the console port, connect to it with the included serial cable and ensure that your terminal emulator software is configured for: Baud rate: 9600 bps Data bits: 8... -
Page 10: Management Network Connections
SR model, use a multimode fiber-optic cable with an LC connector. If you ordered an LR model, use a single-mode fiber-optic cable with an LC connector. In the Cascade Shark series 1000 appliances, interfaces are numbered right-to-left. Interface numbering... -
Page 11: Power Cables
In the Cascade Shark series 2000 appliances, interfaces are numbered right-to-left and bottom-to-top. In the Cascade Shark series 3000 appliances, interfaces are numbered top-to-bottom and left-to-right. Models using the 2U and 3U chassis have redundant power supplies. Plug each unit into a different Power cables circuit. - Page 12 Step 14: Enable PTP [yes]? appliance. They do not appear on version 9.6 or earlier. See description below. Step 15: PTP Interface [eth0]? Step 16: NTP server names [0.riverbed.pool.ntp.org,1.riverbed.pool.ntp.org, 2.riverbed.pool.ntp.org,3.riverbed.pool.ntp.org]? The purposes of the steps in the setup wizard are as follows: Step 0 sets the hostname (without the domain).
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Page 13: Installation Verification
Step 12 sets the time zone of the appliance. Entering an asterisk lists the available time zone areas. To list the specific time zones within an area (for example, Europe), enter the area followed by . To specify a particular time zone, enter the full time zone including the area (for example, ). -
Page 14: Additional Configuration
4. Refresh the browser page (or wait for it to auto-refresh) to confirm that the received packet count is incrementing. 5. When you have verified that all interfaces that you have connected to packet sources are up and that the received packets counters are incrementing, the installation is complete. If the interfaces are not up or the packet counters are not incrementing, see the Cascade Shark Appliance User’s Guide for troubleshooting information. -
Page 15: Contacting Riverbed
1-888-RVBD-TAC (1-888-782-3822) in the United States and Canada or +1 415 247 7381 outside the United States. Professional Services - Riverbed has a staff of engineers who can help you with installation, provisioning, network redesign, project management, custom designs, consolidation project design, and custom-coded solutions.
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