Administration Guide vA4(1.0), Cisco ACE 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance

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How to Use This Guide
Related Documentation
Symbols and Conventions
Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

Preface

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:

•Audience

•How to Use This Guide

•Related Documentation

•Symbols and Conventions

•Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

Audience

This guide is intended for the following trained and qualified service personnel who are responsible for configuring the ACE:

•System administrator

•System operator

How to Use This Guide

This guide is organized as follows:


Chapter	Description
Chapter 1, "Setting Up the ACE"	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.
Chapter 2, "Enabling Remote Access to the ACE"	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.
Chapter 3, "Managing ACE Software Licenses"	Describes how to manage the software licenses for your ACE.
Chapter 4, "Managing the ACE Software"	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.
Chapter 5, "Displaying ACE Hardware and Software System Information"	Describes how to display ACE hardware and software configuration and technical support information.
Chapter 6, "Configuring Redundant ACEs"	Describes how to configure the ACE for redundancy, which provides fault tolerance for the stateful failover of flows.
Chapter 7, "Configuring SNMP"	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).
Chapter 8, "Configuring the XML Interface"	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.

Related Documentation

In addition to this document, the ACE documentation set includes the following:


Document Title	Description
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 Hardware Installation Guide	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: •Setting up the ACE •Establishing remote access •Managing software licenses •Configuring class maps and policy maps •Managing the ACE software •Configuring SNMP •Configuring redundancy •Configuring the XML interface •Upgrading the ACE software
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: •Configuring Ethernet ports •Configuring VLAN interfaces •Configuring routing •Configuring bridging •Configuring Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
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: •Real servers and server farms •Class maps and policy maps to load balance traffic to real servers in server farms •Server health monitoring (probes) •Stickiness •Firewall load balancing •TCL scripts •
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: •Security access control lists (ACLs) •User authentication and accounting using a Terminal Access Controller Access Control System Plus (TACACS+), Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS), or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server •Application protocol and HTTP deep packet inspection •TCP/IP normalization and termination parameters •Network Address Translation (NAT) •
Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance SSL Configuration Guide	Describes how to configure the following Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) features on the ACE: •SSL certificates and keys •SSL initiation •SSL termination •End-to-end SSL
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.
Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) Troubleshooting Wiki	Describes the procedures and methodology in wiki format to troubleshoot the most common problems that you may encounter during the operation of your ACE.
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.

Symbols and Conventions

This publication uses the following conventions:


Convention	Description
boldface font	Commands, command options, and keywords are in boldface. Bold text also indicates a command in a paragraph.
italic font	Arguments for which you supply values are in italics. Italic text also indicates the first occurrence of a new term, book title, emphasized text.
{ }	Encloses required arguments and keywords.
[ ]	Encloses optional arguments and keywords.
{x \| y \| z}	Required alternative keywords are grouped in braces and separated by vertical bars.
[x \| y \| z]	Optional alternative keywords are grouped in brackets and separated by vertical bars.
string	A nonquoted set of characters. Do not use quotation marks around the string or the string will include the quotation marks.
`screen` font	Terminal sessions and information the system displays are in `screen` font.
boldface screen font	Information you must enter in a command line is in boldface screen font.
italic screen font	Arguments for which you supply values are in italic screen font.
^	The symbol ^ represents the key labeled Control—for example, the key combination ^D in a screen display means hold down the Control key while you press the D key.
< >	Nonprinting characters, such as passwords are in angle brackets.

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.

Caution

Means reader be careful. In this situation, you might do something that could result in equipment damage or loss of data.

For additional information about CLI syntax formatting, refer to the Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance Command Reference.

Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

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