4.15. Best cabling for remote management

In the standard design, the primary interface is used for management of the Steelhead appliance: The GUI and CLI are accessible via it, the remote logging of system messages and SNMP traps are send out via it. Also, the traffic for CIFS pre-population and Windows Active Directory integration is send out via this interface.

To increase the manageability of the Steelhead appliance, especially the central ones in data centers, several steps can be taken:

Figure 4.29. Cabling for remote management

                            Terminal
                             Server 
       .-,(  ),-.         __________ 
    .-(          )-.     [_...__...o]
   (       WAN      )        |   ^
    '-(          ).-'        |   |   Serial __________   PRI
        '-.( ).-'            |   '---------|          |-----------.
            ^                |     ________|          |           |
            |                v    v    AUX |          |           v
            |             __________       |          |      __________ 
            '------------[_...__...o]<-----|_...__...o|---->[_...__...o]
                                       WAN              LAN
                          WAN router         Steelhead       LAN router

Figure 4.30. Configuration for routing towards remote management system via the auxiliary interface