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Product Overview

Product Overview

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The Cisco Application Velocity System (AVS) offers state-of-the-art dynamic content acceleration. AVS consists of these software components:

•Condenser: An application accelerator that applies several optimization technologies to accelerate Web application performance.

•AppScreen: A highly configurable web application firewall.

•AppScope Performance Monitor: A sophisticated performance monitoring and reporting facility.

•Management Console: A Web browser-based console that allows you to manage deployed AVS nodes and generate reports. It includes a relational database that stores log and performance monitoring data.

All components run on the Cisco AVS 3120 Application Velocity System, with the following exceptions:

•The AppScope performance monitoring component runs on the AVS 3120, while the AppScope reporting facility runs on the Cisco AVS 3180 Management Station.

•The AppScreen web application firewall component runs on the AVS 3120, while the AppScreen reporting facility runs on the Cisco AVS 3180 Management Station.

•The AVS 3120 can run a Device Management Console, which can configure and manage one or more AVS 3120 devices, but it includes no database and reporting features.

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Note The Device Management Console is not active in the default configuration of the AVS 3120. You must explicitly start the console by using the CLI command set console start. For details, refer to the "CLI Reference" section.

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The Cisco AVS 3180 Management Station runs the Management Console that includes device management, database, and reporting features, including AppScope and AppScreen reporting.

Users upgrading to AVS 5.0 from older software releases may be running the AVS software on alternate hardware platforms.

The system components are illustrated in Figure 1-1.

Figure 1-1 Application Velocity System Components

The Node Manager component shown in Figure 1-1 acts as a communications agent, allowing application appliance server components to communicate with the Management Console through a secure channel. It is included here for completeness, though it is not a user-visible component.

To learn more about the different components of AVS, refer to the following documentation:

•For a detailed description of the Condenser, refer to "AVS Description," and for configuration information, refer to "Configuration Reference."

•For detailed information about AppScreen, refer to "AppScreen Configuration."

•For detailed information about AppScope Performance Monitor, refer to the section "Reporting."

•For detailed information about the Management Console, refer to "Management Console."

•For information about the AVS hardware, and to get started with installation, refer to the Cisco AVS 3120 Application Velocity System Hardware Installation Guide or the Cisco AVS 3180 Management Station Hardware Installation Guide.