This guide provides instructions for the administration of the Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine (ACE) appliance. It describes how to perform administration tasks on the ACE, including initial setup, establish remote access, manage software licenses, configure class maps and policy maps, manage the ACE software, configure SNMP, configure redundancy, configure the XML interface, and upgrade your ACE software.
You can configure the ACE by using the following interfaces:
•The command-line interface (CLI), a line-oriented user interface that provides commands for configuring, managing, and monitoring the ACE.
•Device Manager graphic user interface (GUI), a Web browser-based GUI interface that provides a graphical user interface for configuring, managing, and monitoring the ACE.
This preface contains the following major sections:
•Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines
This guide is intended for the following trained and qualified service personnel who are responsible for configuring the ACE:
•System administrator
•System operator
This guide is organized as follows:
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Describes how to configure basic settings on the ACE, including topics such as how to session and log in to the ACE, change the administrative username and password, assign a name to the ACE, configure a message-of-the-day banner, configure the date and time, configure terminal settings, modify the boot configuration, and restart the ACE. |
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Describes how to configure remote access to the Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine (ACE) appliance by establishing a remote connection using the Secure Shell (SSH) or Telnet protocols. It also describes how to configure the ACE to provide direct access to a user context from SSH. This chapter also covers how to configure the ACE to receive ICMP messages from a host. |
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Describes how to manage the software licenses for your ACE. |
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Describes how to save and download configuration files, use the file system, view and copy core dumps, capture and copy packet information, use the configuration checkpoint and rollback service, display configuration information, and display technical support information. |
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Chapter 5, "Displaying ACE Hardware and Software System Information" |
Describes how to display ACE hardware and software configuration and technical support information. |
Describes how to configure the ACE for redundancy, which provides fault tolerance for the stateful failover of flows. |
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Describes how to configure SNMP to query the ACE for Cisco Management Information Bases (MIBs) and to send event notifications to a network management system (NMS). |
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Describes how to provide a mechanism using XML to transfer, configure, and monitor objects in the ACE. This XML capability allows you to easily shape or extend the CLI query and reply data in XML format to meet different specific business needs. |
In addition to this document, the ACE documentation set includes the following:
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Release Note for the Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance |
Provides information about operating considerations, caveats, and command-line interface (CLI) commands for the ACE. |
Cisco Application Control Engine Appliance |
Provides information for installing the ACE appliance. |
Regulatory Compliance and Safety Information for the Cisco Application Control Engine Appliance |
Regulatory compliance and safety information for the ACE appliance. |
Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance Quick Start Guide |
Describes how to use the ACE appliance Device Manager GUI and CLI to perform the initial setup and VIP load-balancing configuration tasks. |
Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance Administration Guide |
Describes how to perform the following administration tasks on the ACE: • • • • • • • • • |
Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance Virtualization Configuration Guide |
Describes how to operate your ACE in a single context or in multiple contexts. |
Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance Routing and Bridging Configuration Guide |
Describes how to perform the following routing and bridging tasks on the ACE: • • • • • |
Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance Server Load-Balancing Configuration Guide |
Describes how to configure the following server load-balancing features on the ACE: • • • • • • • |
Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance Application Acceleration and Optimization Configuration Guide |
Describes how to configure the web optimization features of the ACE. This guide also provides an overview and description of those features. |
Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance Security Configuration Guide |
Describes how to perform the following ACE security configuration tasks: • • • • • • |
Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance SSL Configuration Guide |
Describes how to configure the following Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) features on the ACE: • • • • |
Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance System Message Guide |
Describes how to configure system message logging on the ACE. This guide also lists and describes the system log (syslog) messages generated by the ACE. |
Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance Command Reference |
Provides an alphabetical list and descriptions of all CLI commands by mode, including syntax, options, and related commands. |
Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance Device Manager Configuration Guide |
Describes how to use the Device Manager GUI, which resides in flash memory on the ACE, to provide a browser-based interface for configuring and managing the appliance. |
Cisco CSS-to-ACE Conversion Tool User Guide |
Describes how to use the CSS-to-ACE conversion tool to migrate Cisco Content Services Switches (CSS) running-configuration or startup-configuration files to the ACE. |
Describes the procedures and methodology in wiki format to troubleshoot the most common problems that you may encounter during the operation of your ACE. |
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Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) Configuration Examples Wiki |
Provides examples of common configurations for load balancing, security, SSL, routing and bridging, virtualization, and so on. |
This publication uses the following conventions:
1. A numbered list indicates that the order of the list items is important.
a. An alphabetical list indicates that the order of the secondary list items is important.
•A bulleted list indicates that the order of the list topics is unimportant.
–An indented list indicates that the order of the list subtopics is unimportant.
This document uses the following conventions:
Note Means reader take note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to material not covered in the publication.
For additional information about CLI syntax formatting, refer to the Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance Command Reference.
For information on obtaining documentation, obtaining support, providing documentation feedback, security guidelines, and also recommended aliases and general Cisco documents, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html