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Alarms & Conditions
Alarms & Conditions Overview The STM can generate an alarm or event based on a condition, such as a threshold being exceeded e.g. on a 10G interface, if the rate exceeds 9G continuously for 30 seconds, flag a critical alarm. The GUI provides menus ...
Distress-What-Does-It-Mean
Distress - what does it mean? The "distress" feature of the Saisei STM is a strong tool in the software’s arsenal - it gives a quick synopsis of the state of the network from the point of view of a given user, application, geolocation or AS, from 0 ...
Using-scripts-in-STM
Using Scripts in STM Scripts can be written in any language, but the preferred language is Python because of its excellent support for Rest API programming. For simple tasks, shell scripts are a good choice. Scripts are located and placed in the file ...
Configuration Wizard Tech Tip
Configuration Wizard
Application not correctly identified in Library
When we update As the internet continues to grow and dynamically change on a daily basis, the signature libraries to accurately identify and classify traffic are constantly being updated. From time to time, you may come across something that has not ...
Installing and Using an Internal Silicom Bypass NIC Card
Silicom Internal Bypass NIC Cards The Saisei Traffic Manager platform™ has been certified for use with a number of bypass NIC card that can be located internally to the server that the STM is running on. These cards are produced by Silicom and ...
Making Best use of the STMs Group Functionality
An Introduction to Groups Contained within the STM functionality is the concept of a “Group” which in Release 7.0 and beyond means that there are 4 primary group types based on the configuration element type to which they are associated: Autonomous ...
How to use Child Equalization to Share Bandwidth between VLANs
Child Equalization Description At times there are requirements to distribute bandwidth equally among objects other than hosts. A clear example here is in the hospitality industry where hotels designate a unique VLAN to each room, by doing this ...
Basic Classification and How to Build Classification Filters
An Introduction to Classification The process of Classification is one which takes all Ingress Packets on a particular interface and filters those packets according to a user defined set of filters otherwise known as Ingress Flow Classes and ...
Configuring the Reporting Subsystem
Automatic Report Generation The Saisei Traffic Manager platform™ stores historical data in a MySQL database for future use in generating Daily, Weekly and Monthly reports that can be sent to multiple email recipients. With the advent of Release 7.0 ...
Host Policy Maps (Rate Plans) Explained
Abstract This document provides information on how Host Policy Maps work in both Symmetric and Asymmetric transmission rate implementations. Terminology and Acronyms • AR – Available Rate • BITW – Bump in the Wire • CAC – Call ...