Best Practices
Here are the best practices when configuring the Exinda Management Center.
Deployment
Regardless of the number of Exinda Appliances you are working with, it is very important to test EMCExinda Management Center, SaaS service to centrally monitor and configure multiple Exinda appliances configuration on a single appliance before pushing the configuration onto other appliances.
Pull one appliance into the subgroup and push the configuration to the group. To ensure all the configuration and customizations are working as you expect, log on to the appliance and check the Optimizer Policy Tree.
If there is a problem with the policy, it is easier to back out a single appliance rather than an entire appliance group. After you confirm the configuration, add the rest of the appliances to the appliance group and then push the configuration to the group again.
Appliance Group Inheritance
When working with device subgroups, remember to plan for group inheritance. Implement common configuration at the parent group level because all subgroups can inherit settings from the parent group.
Plan to support a common Optimizer Policy Tree that can also provide distinct network objects or applications per group, as appliance groups cannot inherit applications and network objects from their parent groups.
Circuit Size
When configuring circuits and bridges, remember that you might need multiple circuits with different sizes to monitor various circuit types.
For example, if each link has a different Internet speed, you will have to create a different circuit for each link. Use the Library to create the different circuits for the different links, which are then re-usable when duplicating policy trees with only minor changes in link speeds.
What to Configure in the EMC vs. the appliance
The following table outlines the configuration items you can only manage in the EMC and the items you can only update on individual appliances.
NOTE
If you make changes to VLANs or protocols at the group level, you should send CLICommnad line interface commands from within EMC only.
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Optimizer |
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Network Objects |
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Users and Groups |
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VLANs |
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Protocols |
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Applications |
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Application Groups |
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Schedules |
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Adaptive Response |
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Service Levels |
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HTML Response |
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