Table Of Contents

A - B - C - D - F - G - H - I - K - L - M - N - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X -

Index

A

ACE

boot configuration 1-22

capturing packet information 5-30

configuration checkpoint and rollback service 5-39

configuration files, loading from remote server 5-11

configuration files, saving 5-1

console connection 1-2

date and time, configuring 1-12

Flash memory, reformatting 5-43

inactivity timeout 1-9

information, displaying 6-1

licenses, managing 3-1

logging in 1-3

message-of-the-day banner 1-10

MIBs 8-7

naming 1-8

password, changing administrative 1-5

password, changing CLI account 1-7

recovery from the ROMMON utility A-12

redundant configuration 7-1

remote access 2-1

restarting 1-27

setting up 1-1

shutting down 1-28

SNMP 8-1

terminal settings 1-17

upgrading A-1

username, changing 1-5

using file system 5-12

XML, configuring 9-1

admin user 1-3, 9-1

alias IP address 7-14

B

boot configuration

BOOT environment variable 1-25, 5-19

booting from rommon prompt 1-24, A-12

boot method 1-23, A-10

configuration register, setting boot method 1-23, A-10

displaying 1-26

modifying 1-22

upgrading A-10

BOOT environment variable, setting 1-25, 5-19

boot method, setting 1-23, A-10

C

capturing packets 5-31

copying buffer 5-34

displaying buffer 5-35

checkpoint, configuration

creating 5-40

deleting 5-41

displaying 5-42

rolling back to 5-41

class map

Layer 3 and 4, creating for management traffic 9-13

Layer 3 and 4, for SNMP 8-41

remote management 2-5

remote management description 2-6

remote management protocol match criteria 2-7

SNMP management traffic 8-41

XML 9-13

CLI

account password, changing 1-7

restarting ACE from 1-27

saving session 1-3

user management of SNMP 8-6

clock

daylight saving time, setting 1-15

timezone, setting 1-12

viewing system clock settings 1-17

communities, SNMP 8-29

configurational examples

redundancy 7-43

remote access 2-23

SNMP 8-50

configuration checkpoint and rollback service

creating configuration checkpoint 5-40

deleting configuration checkpoint 5-41

displaying checkpoint information 5-42

overview 5-39

rolling back configuration 5-41

using 5-39

configuration files

clearing startup file 5-10

copying to disk0 file system 5-5

displaying 5-6

displaying user context from the Admin context 5-9

loading from remote server 5-11

merging startup with running 5-6

saving 5-1

saving in Flash memory 5-2

saving to remote server 5-3

configuration register

rommon prompt 1-24

setting boot method 1-23, A-10

values 1-23

configuration synchronization

overview 7-7

SSL certs and keys 7-24, 7-26

console

connection to ACE 1-2

console line settings 1-20

contact, SNMP 8-30

context

associating with FT group 7-18

directly accessing with SSH 2-21

copying

configuration files 5-3, 5-5

core dumps 5-27

files 5-15

files from remote server 5-19

files to remote server 5-17

licenses 5-16

packet capture buffer 5-16

software image 5-20

upgrade image A-9

copyright, displaying 6-3

core dumps 5-27

clearing core directory 5-29

copying 5-27

deleting 5-29

D

date and time

configuring 1-12

daylight saving time setting 1-15

time zone setting 1-12

viewing system clock 1-17

daylight saving time setting 1-15

default user

admin 1-3, 9-1

www 1-3, 9-1

demo license, replacing with permanent license 3-7

directory

copying files 5-15

creating in disk0 5-22

deleting from disk0 5-23

listing files 5-13

disk0

creating new directory in 5-22

deleting directory in 5-23

moving files in 5-23

overview 5-12

uncompressing files in 5-21

untarring files in 5-21

display attributes, terminal 1-18

displaying

copyright 6-3

file contents 5-25

FT group information 7-45

FT peer information 7-52

FT statistics 7-57

FT tracking information 7-59

hardware information 6-4

hardware inventory 6-5

ICMP statistics 6-18

information on ACE 6-1

memory statistics 7-52

process status 6-11

redundancy configuration 7-45

redundancy history 7-50

software version 6-2

system information 6-14

system processes 6-6

technical support information 6-19

DTD

accessing 9-26

overview 9-7

F

failover

forcing 7-23

stateful 7-5

failure detection 7-27

host or gateway 7-29

host or gateway, example configuration 7-33

host or gateway, IP address 7-30, 7-32

host or gateway, probe 7-30, 7-32

host or gateway, probe priority 7-31, 7-33

host or gateway, process 7-29

HSRP group 7-38

HSRP group, example 7-42

HSRP group, group priority 7-41, 7-42

HSRP group, group to track 7-40, 7-41

HSRP group, process 7-39

HSRP requirements 7-38

interface 7-34

interface, example 7-37

interface, interface priority 7-35, 7-36

interface, interface to track 7-35, 7-36

interface, process 7-34

overview 7-27

fault tolerance

See redundancy

file system

copying files from remote server 5-19

copying files to directory 5-15

copying files to remote server 5-17

copying image to remote server 5-20

copying licenses 5-16

copying packet capture buffer 5-16

creating new directory in disk0 5-22

deleting directory in disk0 5-23

deleting files 5-24

displaying file contents 5-25

listing files 5-13

moving files in disk0 5-23

overview 5-12

saving show command output to file 5-25

uncompressing files in disk0 5-21

untarring files in disk0 5-21

using ACE 5-12

Flash memory

file system overview 5-12

reformatting 5-43

saving configuration files in 5-2

FT group

assigning priority to group member 7-19

assigning priority to standby group member 7-20

associating context 7-18

associating peer 7-19

configuring 7-17

displaying information 7-45

modifying 7-22

placing in service 7-21

preemption, configuring 7-21

FT peer

associating with FT group 7-19

associating with FT VLAN 7-15

configuring 7-14

displaying information 7-52

heartbeat configuration 7-15

query interface, configuring 7-16

FT tracking, displaying information 7-59

FT VLAN 7-6, 7-11

associating with FT peer 7-15

creating 7-12

enabling 7-13

IP address 7-12

peer IP address 7-13

G

gateway failure detection

See failure detection

H

hardware information, displaying 6-4, 6-5

heartbeat

configuration 7-15

host failure detection

See failure detection

HSRP group

failure detection 7-38

tracking requirements 7-38

HTTP

return codes between server and client 9-5

HyperTerminal

launching 1-2

saving session 1-3

I

ICMP

displaying statistics 6-18

enabling messages to the ACE 2-19

image

autobooting image A-10

BOOT environment variable 1-25

copying and booting from the supervisor engine A-14

copying to remote server 5-20

copying upgrade image to ACE A-9

software image information, displaying A-16

version A-16

inactivity timeout 1-9

interface failure detection

See failure detection

inventory, displaying hardware 6-5

IP address

alias 7-14

K

key

generating for license 3-3

pair for SSH host 2-17

L

Layer 3 and 4 policy map

description 2-10

for management traffic 2-9, 9-17

SNMP, creating 8-44

specifying traffic class 2-11

Layer 3 and Layer 4 class map

management traffic, creating for 9-13

SNMP, creating for 8-41

licenses

backing up 3-13

copying 5-16

copying to ACE 3-4

displaying configuration and statistics 3-14

generating key 3-3

installing 3-5

list of available 3-2

managing 3-1

ordering upgrade license 3-3

removing 3-8

replacing demo with permanent 3-7

location, SNMP 8-31

logging

into ACE 1-3

M

management access

Layer 3 and 4 traffic 9-17

Layer 3 and 4 traffic policy 2-9

SSH, configuring 2-16

Telnet 2-15

message-of-the-day banner 1-10

MIBs 8-7

monitoring

See SNMP

moving files in disk0 5-23

N

naming the ACE 1-8

notifications

error messages 8-35

IETF standard, enabling 8-36

options 8-35

SLB 8-34

SNMP 8-19, 8-31, 8-35

SNMP, enabling 8-34

SNMP host, configuring 8-32

SNMP license manager 8-34

types 8-34

virtual context change 8-35

P

packet buffer 5-30

capturing packets 5-31

copying capture buffer 5-16, 5-34

displaying capture buffer 5-35

password

changing administrative 1-5

changing CLI account 1-7

peer

See FT peer

ping, enabling 2-19

policy map

actions for remote access 2-12

actions for SNMP 8-46, 9-19

Layer 3 and 4, for management traffic 2-9, 9-17

Layer 3 and 4, for SNMP 8-44

Layer 3 and 4, specifying traffic class 2-11

Layer 3 and 4 policy map description 2-10

remote access 2-9

SNMP management traffic 8-44

XML 9-17

probe

for failure detection 7-30, 7-32

processes

displaying 6-6

displaying status of 6-11

protocol match criteria, for remote class map 2-7

Q

query interface for FT peer 7-16

quick start

redundancy 7-8

remote access 2-2

SNMP 8-24

upgrading A-5

XML 9-11

R

recovering the ACE from the ROMMON utility A-12

redundancy 7-1

configuration, displaying 7-45

configuration examples 7-43

configuration requirements 7-8

configuration synchronization overview 7-7

configuring 7-11

failure detection and tracking 7-27

forcing failover 7-23

FT group, configuring 7-17

FT group information, displaying 7-45

FT peer, configuring 7-14

FT peer information, displaying 7-52

FT statistics, displaying 7-57

FT tracking information, displaying 7-59

FT VLAN 7-6

FT VLAN, configuring 7-11

history, displaying 7-50

memory statistics, displaying 7-52

overview 7-1

protocol 7-2

quick start 7-8

stateful failover 7-5

statistics, clearing 7-63

synchronizing 7-24

synchronizing SSL certs and keys 7-26

reformatting Flash memory 5-43

remote access

class map, creating 2-5

class map description 2-6

class map protocol match criteria 2-7

configuration examples 2-23

enabling 2-1

network management traffic services, configuring 2-4

policy actions 2-12

policy map 2-9

quick start 2-2

service policy 2-13

SSH, configuring 2-16

Telnet 2-15

terminating user session 2-19

remote server

copying files from 5-19

copying files to 5-17

copying image to 5-20

loading configuration files from 5-11

saving configuration files to 5-3

restarting ACE 1-27

from ACE CLI 1-27

from Catalyst CLI 1-28

retrieving user context through the Admin context IP address when using SNMP 8-37

rollback service

See configuration checkpoint and rollback service

rommon

configuration register, setting 1-24

mode 1-23

prompt 1-24

prompt, booting the ACE from 1-24

recovering the ACE from A-12

running configuration

copying to disk0 file system 5-5

merging with startup 5-6

saving to startup configuration file 5-2

viewing 5-6

viewing user context from the Admin context 5-9

S

service policy

HTTP management policy map, applying 9-19

HTTPS management policy map, applying 9-19

remote access policy map, applying 2-13

SNMP management policy map, applying 8-47

session

maximum number for SSH 2-16

SSH information, showing 2-25

SSH key details, showing 2-26

Telnet information, showing 2-24

terminating SSH or Telnet 2-19

to ACE 1-3

setting up ACE 1-1

show command

enabling the exchange of output in XML 9-23

saving output to file 5-25

viewing hardware and software configuration information 6-1

shutting down ACE 1-28

Simple Network Management Protocol

See SNMP

SNMP

AAA integration 8-6

agents, communication 8-4

agents, overview 8-3

class map, creating 8-41

CLI user management 8-6

communities 8-29

configuration examples 8-50

configuring the engine ID 8-39

contact 8-30

IETF standard 8-36

limitations 8-22

linkDown trap 8-36

linkUp trap 8-36

location 8-31

management traffic, configuring 8-40

managers, communication 8-4

managers, overview 8-3

MIBs 8-7

notifications 8-31

overview 8-2

policy actions 8-46, 9-19

policy map, creating 8-44

quick start 8-24

retrieving user context through the Admin context IP address 8-37

service policy 8-47

statistics 8-51

traps 8-19

traps and informs 8-5

users, configuring 8-26

VLAN interface, assigning 8-37

software licenses

See licenses

software version, displaying 6-2

SSH 2-16

directly accessing a user context 2-21

host key pairs 2-17

management access 2-16

maximum sessions 2-16

RSA key 2-18

showing key details 2-26

showing session information 2-25

terminating session 2-19

version 2-8

SSL

certificates and keys, synchronizing 7-26

startup configuration

copying to disk0 file system 5-5

merging with running 5-6

saving to remote server 5-3

updating with running configuration 5-2

viewing 5-6

stateful failover 7-5

statistics

FT 7-57

FT, clearing 7-64

license 3-14

memory 7-52

redundancy history, clearing 7-65

SNMP 8-51

stopping ACE 1-28

synchronizing

configuration 7-7

SSL certs and keys 7-24

synchronizing redundant configurations 7-24

system information, displaying 6-14

system processes

displaying 6-6

displaying status of 6-11

T

technical support information, displaying 6-19

Telnet

management access, configuring 2-15

showing information 2-24

terminating session 2-19

terminal settings

configuring 1-17

console line settings 1-20

display attributes 1-18

virtual terminal line settings 1-21

time zone setting 1-12

tracking

See failure detection

traps, SNMP 8-5, 8-19

U

uncompressing files in disk0 5-21

untarring files in disk0 5-21

upgrade license 3-3

upgrading

booting image A-10

copying image to ACE A-9

image information A-16

overview A-1

quick start A-5

recovery from the ROMMON utility A-12

reloading ACE A-11

user

configuring for SNMP 8-26

user context

accessing by SNMP through the Admin context IP address 8-37

directly accessing with SSH 2-21

username

changing 1-5

V

version, software 6-2, A-16

virtual terminal line settings 1-21

VLANs

for SNMP traps 8-37

FT VLAN for redundancy 7-6, 7-11

volatile file system 5-12

W

www user 1-3, 9-1

X

XML

class map, creating 9-13

DTD, accessing 9-26

DTD, overview 9-7

HTTP and HTTPS support 9-3

HTTP return codes 9-5

management traffic, configuring 9-12

overview 9-2

policy map, creating 9-17

quick start 9-11

sample configuration 9-9

service policy 9-19

show command output 9-23