Chapter 5. Operation Related Issues

Table of Contents

5.1. Index
5.2. Hardware related issues
5.3. Admission Control
5.4. Auto-negotiation and duplex issues
5.5. LAN speed maxed out
5.6. Watchdogs
5.7. Unexpected restarts of the optimization service
5.8. Unexpected reboots
5.9. Downgrade and upgrade issues
5.10. Time related issues - The NTP service.
5.11. Firewalls in the path
5.12. Data Store Synchronization
5.13. Data store related errors
5.14. WCCP issues
5.15. Asymmetric Routing
5.16. IP Routing Related Issues
5.17. Alarms and health status
5.18. Long lived TCP session treatment
5.19. Order of the in-path rules
5.20. Network monitoring and network management systems
5.21. Web proxies and web caches
5.22. Security
5.23. The Riverbed Services Platform
5.24. Access related problems
5.25. Partitions running out of space
5.26. Memory usage on the Steelhead appliance
5.27. LAN side traffic is seen on the Steelhead appliance
5.28. Service Error
5.29. Can this application be optimized?
5.30. Interceptor cluster related issues
5.31. Expiring SSL certificates
5.32. High CPU related issues
5.33. Central Management Console related issues

5.1. Index

This chapter describes various issues encountered during the operational of a Steelhead appliance in the network.

  • Hardware related issues, like hard disk failures, power supply failures, fan related failures and memory related failures.

  • Admission control.

  • Auto-negotiation and speed/duplex issues.

  • LAN speed is maxed out.

  • Unexpected restarts of the optimization service.

  • Unexpected reboots of the Steelhead appliance.

  • Watchdogs on the Steelhead appliance.

  • Downgrade and upgrade related issues.

  • Time related issues.

  • Firewalls in the path.

  • Data Store Synchronization.

  • Data store related errors.

  • WCCP related issues.

  • Asymmetric Routing.

  • IP Routing related issues.

  • Alarms and health status.

  • Long lived TCP sessions.

  • Order of the in-path rules.

  • Network monitoring and network management systems.

  • Web proxies and web caches.

  • Security.

  • The Riverbed Services Platform (RSP)

  • Access related issues

  • Partitions running out of space

  • Memory usage

  • LAN side traffic seen

  • Service errors

  • Can this application be optimized?

  • Interceptor cluster

  • Expiring SSL certificates