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Chapter 3 CLI Commands

(config) device mode

To configure the device mode for the WAAS device, use the device mode global configuration

command. To reset the mode of operation on your WAAS device, use the no form of this command.

device mode {application-accelerator | central-manager}

Syntax Description

Defaults The default device operation mode is application-accelerator.

Command Modes global configuration

Device Modes application-accelerator

central-manager

Usage Guidelines You must deploy the WAAS Central Manager on a dedicated appliance. In the WAAS 4.0 software

release, the device mode feature was added, which allows you to deploy a WAAS device as either a

WAAS Central Manager or a WAE. Because you must deploy a WAAS Central Manager on a dedicated

appliance, a WAAS device can operate in one device mode only: either in central-manager mode or

application-accelerator mode.

Note A WAAS Central Manager is the device management station of a WAAS network that allows you to

centrally configure, manage, and monitor your WAEs.

By default, a WAAS device uses the application-accelerator mode, which makes it operate as a WAE.

To support the new device mode feature, the device mode global configuration command and the show

device mode EXEC commands were added in the WAAS 4.0 software release.

The set of WAAS CLI commands that are available vary based on the device mode of the WAAS device.

To enable WAAS network-related applications and services, use the cms enable global configuration

command. Use the no form of this command to disable the WAAS network.

By default, a WAAS device uses the application-accelerator mode, which makes it operate as a Wide

Area Application Engine (WAE). Before configuring network settings for your WAAS Central Managers

using the WAAS CLI, you must change the device mode to the proper device mode.

You cannot configure the WAE network module (any of the NME-WAE family of devices) as a

Central

Manger.

application-accelerator Configures the WAAS device to function as a WAAS Accelerator.

All of your Edge WAEs and Core WAEs should be operating in this

mode.

central-manager Configures the WAAS device to function as a WAAS Central

Manager.