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Device Manager Guide, Cisco ACE 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance

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Overview

This chapter contains the following sections:

• ACE Appliance Device Manager Overview, page 1-1

• Information About the ACE No Payload Encryption Software Version, page 1-2

• Finding Information on CLI Tasks, page 1-3

• Logging into ACE Appliance Device Manager, page 1-4

• Changing Your Account Password, page 1-6

• ACE Appliance Device Manager Interface Overview, page 1-6

• Configuration Overview, page 1-18

• Understanding ACE Features, page 1-19

• IPv6 Considerations, page 1-20

• Understanding ACE Appliance Device Manager Terminology, page 1-22

For more information on how to get started quickly, see the Quick Start Guide, Cisco ACE 4700 Series

Application Control Engine Appliance.

ACE Appliance Device Manager Overview

The ACE Appliance Device Manager, which resides in flash memory on the ACE appliance, provides a

browser-based interface for configuring and managing the

ACE appliance. Its intuitive interface

combines easy navigation with point-and-click provisioning of services, reducing the complexity of

configuring virtual services and multiple feature sets.

ACE Appliance Device Manager menus and options:

• Supports end-to-end service provisioning of the ACE appliance and any associated virtual contexts,

including network access, port management, application acceleration and optimization,

load-balancing, SSL management, resource management, and fault tolerance.

Note Device Manager uses SSH and XML over HTTPS to communicate with the ACE appliance

and applying exec mode configuration changes (such as, checkpoint, SSL certificate,

license, copy, and backup and restore configurations) to the appliance. By default, SSH is

enabled on the appliance. However, ensure that the ssh key rsa 1024 force command is

applied on the appliance.