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Thursday, August 1, 2013

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)

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

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






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