6.3. Configuration of the system

This section describes the configuration of the Steelhead appliance as seen in the system dump.

6.3.1. The configuration of the optimization service

The configuration of the system, as seen by the output of the command show running, can be found in the file active-running.txt.

Figure 6.5. Contents of the active-running.txt file

##
## Network interface configuration
##
   interface inpath0_0 description ""
no interface inpath0_0 dhcp
no interface inpath0_0 dhcp dynamic-dns
no interface inpath0_0 force-mdi-x enable
   interface inpath0_0 ip address 10.17.6.100 /25
   interface inpath0_0 mtu "1500"
no interface inpath0_0 shutdown
   interface inpath0_0 speed "auto"
   interface inpath0_0 txqueuelen "100"
   interface lan0_0 description ""

The output of the command show running full can be found in the file active-running-full.txt.

There are more files which names start with active, like the active.db, active.txt and active-brief.txt. These are the configuration files which contain all of the knobs and buttons of the optimization service, but in an internal format.

Further there are files which names start with local, like the local.txt and local-brief.txt. These are also part of the configuration but with fields part of auto-configuration like the license keys.

6.3.2. The configuration of the various daemons

In the directory output are the configurations of the various daemons of the operating system, like the syslog daemon and the SNMP daemon:

Figure 6.6. Configuration of the syslog daemon and SNMP daemon

[~/CSH-20110530-163605] edwin@t43>cat output/syslog.conf
##
## This file was AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED.  DO NOT MODIFY.
## Any changes will be lost.
##
## Generated by md_syslog at 2011/05/24 16:07:00
##
*.notice                        -/var/log/messages
local1.*                        -/var/log/user_messages

[~/CSH-20110530-163605] edwin@t43>cat output/snmpd.conf
##
## This file was AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED.  DO NOT MODIFY.
## Any changes will be lost.
##
## Generated by md_snmp at 2011/05/24 16:07:11
##
rocommunity public
trapcommunity public
trapinterface primary
sysServices 78
engineID 0x8000430b805525428b4b8706c7