Riverbed - Steelhead Replacement procedure

Steelhead Replacement procedure

• Power-on the RMA appliance and verify whether it boots properly
• Check the licenses installed in “faulty appliance” and Apply for those licenses (like SSL) for the RMA serial number – procedure provided in a separate post
• Install the required licenses and Upgrade the software if needed
• Do the Initial configuration (like management and in-path IP addresses – procedure provided in a separate post)  
  
• In a maintenance window, replace the faulty appliance with the RMA appliance

Steelhead Replacement procedure (With Interceptor deployment)

• In Interceptor based SH deployment, there is no downtime needed to replace SH since it deployed in Virtual in-path (Interceptor can be configured to “pause” connections to the faulty appliance)
• Follow all the above procedure
• SH and Interceptor to be integrated and this should be configured separately as shown below (not covered as part of Initial configuration)

in-path oop enable

steelhead communication enable

steelhead communication multi-interface enable                       (needed for in-path interfaces in Port-channel)

steelhead name <Interceptor-hostname> main-ip <Interceptor-inpath-IP>

• Check the IC status whether the SH is in “connected” state as shown below