Who Should Read This Manual? : Manual Organization

Manual Organization
This section outlines the chapters and summarizes their content.
“Getting Started,” provides an overview of the Silver Peak Global Management System’s functions and features and a summary of the tasks for getting started.
“Configuration Templates,” describes how to use the Configuration templates to manage appliances and appliance objects.
“Configuration Reports,” describes the read-only reports that display appliance configuration parameters.
“Appliance Administration Reports,” describes the read-only reports that display appliance administration parameters.
“Alarms & Threshold Crossing Alerts,” describes alarm categories and definitions. It also describes how to configure, view, and handle alarm notifications. Additionally, it describes threshold crossing alerts, which are pre-emptive, user-configurable thresholds that declare a Major alarm when crossed.
“Monitoring Traffic and Performance,” focuses on traffic- and performance-related reports.
“GMS Administration,” describes the administrative tasks that directly relate to managing GMS-related events and tasks only. These activities do not relate to managing appliances.
“Maintenance and Support,” describes the activities related to maintaining the appliances. This includes database and software image management, as well as reboot operations.
“TCP/IP Ports Used by the GMS and Silver Peak Appliances,”uses tables and diagrams to list the ports that the GMS and use for TCP/IP.

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