Chapter 1 - Cascade Quick Start Guide; Introduction; Product Descriptions - Riverbed Cascade Manual Del Usuario

Cascade Quick Start Guide
CHAPTER 1
This guide describes Cascade products and installation procedures. It contains the following sections:

Introduction

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Preparation
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Mounting and powering
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Configuration
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Cabling
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Verification
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Introduction
This section provides Cascade product descriptions and specifications, safety guidelines, and Riverbed contact
information. Subsequent sections provide installation requirements and procedures.

Product Descriptions

Cascade Sensor
Using mirror (SPAN) ports or passive taps, the Sensor appliance collects traffic information and provides the Cascade
Profiler or Cascade Express with statistics for:
Connections between hosts on the monitored segments of the network
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Source and destination IP addresses and port numbers used in the connections
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Protocols
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Applications being accessed on hosts
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Traffic volumes measured in connections, packets, bytes, or bits per second
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Performance metrics
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