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Device Manager Guide, Cisco ACE 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance
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Using DM Guided Setup
This chapter describes how to use Cisco Device Manager (DM) Guided Setup.
Note When naming ACE objects (such as a real server, virtual server, parameter map, class map, health probe,
and so on), enter an alphanumeric string of 1 to 64 characters, which can include the following special
characters: underscore (_), hyphen (-), dot (.), and asterisk (*). Spaces are not allowed.
If you are using DM with an ACE appliance and you configure a named object at the ACE CLI, keep in
mind that DM does not support all of the special characters that the ACE CLI allows you to use when
configuring a named object. If you use special characters that DM does not support, you may not be able
to import or manage the ACE using DM.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• Information About Guided Setup, page 3-1
• Guidelines and Limitations, page 3-3
• Using ACE Hardware Setup, page 3-3
• Using Virtual Context Setup, page 3-7
• Using Application Setup, page 3-9
Information About Guided Setup
DM Guided Setup provides a series of setup sequences that offer GUI window guidance and networking
diagrams to simplify the configuration of DM and the network devices that it manages.
Guided Setup allows you to quickly perform the following tasks:
• Configure ACE devices that are new to the network by establishing network connectivity in either
standalone or high-availability (HA) deployments.
• Create and connect to an ACE virtual context.
• Set up load balancing application from an ACE to a group of back-end servers.
To access Guided Setup, click the Config tab located at the top of the window, and then click Guided
Setup.