Configuration Library

The Configuration Library allows to you create items and save them for reuse in different areas, much like a template. For instance, create a policy set once and then use it in multiple virtual circuits or in multiple Optimizer Policy Trees applied to different appliance groups.

The librarythe Exinda repository for network objects and their definitions items will appear in drop-down lists when configuring other items. For example, when creating a policy, you can select an application from a list; when creating a Optimizer Policy Tree, you can select a circuit from a list, or a virtual circuitlogical definitions that partition a a physical network circuit and used to determine what traffic passes through it and how much from a list, or a policy set from a list, and so on.

Library items are categorized as follows:

• Circuits – Identifies the physical connections to the WANWide Area Network or Internet by defining the inbound and outbound bandwidth and the named circuit type. The circuits within a tenant must have unique names.
• Circuit Types – An abstract concept used to identify the purpose of the circuit and appliance bridges and to create a logical binding between the circuits and the appliance bridges.
• Virtual Circuits – Logically divide or partition a circuit to define what traffic will be processed in this partition (and when), and how much bandwidth it is allowed.
• Dynamic Virtual Circuits – Dynamic virtual circuits provide a means to configure fair sharing among the hosts, or to configure a limit to the number of hosts so that those hosts get preferential treatment.
• Policy Sets – Ordered list of policies that can be applied to one or more virtual circuits in one or more appliance groups.
• Policies – Define the actions to perform on specific targeted traffic.
• Network Objects – Represent hosts on a network and can include subnets, single hosts, or groups of both. Once on the appliance, network objects are used to determine if host and user traffic data are internal or external to the LANLocal area network behind your appliance.
• Applications – Classify traffic by layer 7 signatures OR by a combination of network objects, ports, protocols, and DSCPDifferentiated Services Code Point markings. You can then filter traffic generated by the applications to determine which policy to apply.
• Application Group – Preset and custom groups of applications to monitor and subsequently classify traffic and determine which policy to apply to traffic.
• Schedules – Define a specific timeframe of the week. When used in policies or virtual circuits, the schedule will affect traffic only within the identified timeframe.
• Application Performance Scores – Identify the applications operating on your network whose performance you need to monitor.
• Service Level Agreements – The Service Level Agreement (SLA) objects are used to monitor the availability of a particular IPInternet protocol site.
• VLANs – Virtual LAN (VLAN) Objects are used to logically separate hosts (or groups of hosts) on a functional basis rather than on a physical basis.