Cisco Systems 3120 manual Product Overview, Introduction

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Product Overview

This chapter provides a basic functional overview of the Cisco AVS 3120 Application Velocity System and describes the hardware, major components, and front and rear panel indicators and controls.

This chapter contains the following major sections:

•Introduction, page 1-1

•System Hardware Features, page 1-2

•Ports and Connectors, page 1-3

Introduction

The Cisco Application Velocity System (AVS) offers state-of-the-art dynamic content acceleration and web application security. AVS consists of these software components:

•Condenser—An application accelerator that applies several optimization technologies to accelerate Web application performance.

•Web Application Security Firewall—A highly configurable web application firewall. (In software version 5.0, AppScreen serves as the web application firewall.)

•AppScope Performance Monitor—A sophisticated performance monitoring and reporting facility.

•Management Console—A Web browser-based console that allows an administrator to manage deployed AVS nodes and generate reports. It includes a relational database that stores log and performance monitoring data.

All components run on the Cisco AVS 3120 Application Velocity System, except that the AVS 3120 runs a Device Management Console, which can configure and manage one or more AVS 3120 devices, but it includes no database and reporting features. The AVS 3120 uses an internal compact flash device for storage rather than a hard-disk drive. (Note that the externally accessible compact flash slot is not used.)

The related AVS 3180 Management Station includes the database and reporting features and can also be used to manage several deployed AVS 3120 devices.

Cisco AVS 3120 Application Velocity System Hardware Installation Guide

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