Shark Appliance Kit Frequently Asked Questions
- Why can I no longer find Shark Appliance Kit on your Web site?
- What is the Shark Appliance Kit?
- What can a Shark Appliance Kit do?
- What is Pilot Console?
- Where do I put my Shark Appliance?
- What is the Shark Packet Recorder?
- How many Shark Appliances can I use with my Pilot Console?
Like every technology company, Riverbed makes occasional changes to its product and service offerings. As part of this process, we have ended sales of CACE Shark Appliance Kit. We recommend Cascade Shark Appliance as a substitute product. Existing customers can visit our support site for product support options.
The Shark Appliance Kit is our Shark Appliance software with one or more TurboCap™ GbE cards for capturing network data. The software is installed on a PC server that meets or exceeds our minimum hardware requirements.
Every Shark Appliance includes the Shark Packet Recorder, a customized packet capture application for high fidelity, multi-gigabit per second network traffic recording. It is designed to provide full packet capture at GbE line speed with zero packet loss.
The Pilot Console (now Cascade Pilot) is an enhanced version of CACE Pilot that seamlessly and securely interfaces with one or more Shark Appliances to display, drill down into, rewind, alert, and report on, network traffic captured by the Appliances.
Shark Appliances (now Cascade Shark) are designed for placement at strategic points throughout your network that provide access to your mission-critical data. You need to use taps or configure span ports at these locations to ensure you have the visibility necessary for global monitoring and troubleshooting.
The Shark Appliance includes a “dump-to-disk” facility called the Shark Packet Recorder which uses a new approach for dealing with high-speed and/or long-duration traffic capture scenarios. CACE Technologies’ Packet Recorder is based on an optimized packet data store that eliminates the need for file rotation schemes.