Configuring Network Interfaces

Use this task to configure your session delivery device to communicate with any network element.

1. Expand the Configuration Manager slider, and click Devices.
2. In the Managed Devices pane, select a device, and click Load.
3. In the navigation panel, click the Global Settings folder to expand the configuration navigation tree for the loaded device.
4. In the navigation panel, click Interfaces.
5. In the Physical interface table, click an existing physical interface.
   The network interface belonging to the selected physical interface appears in the Network interface table.
6. Select this network interface, and click Edit.
7. The Interfaces pane displays. In the Host section complete the following fields to configure network interface parameters for the device:

   Name	Description
   Host name field	The host name of this network interface. This field is populated with default.
   IP address field	The IP address of this network interface.
   Subnet mask field	The subnet mask of this network interface.
   Primary IP Address field	The primary gateway that this network interface uses to communicate for the next hop route.
   Secondary IP Address field	The secondary gateway of this network interface (if applicable).

8. To configure parameters that monitor the health of the gateway, click Add in the Gateway heartbeat section.
9. In the Add Gateway heartbeat dialog, complete the following fields:

   Name	Description
   State drop-down list	Select to enable or disable the gateway heartbeat feature. The default value is enabled.
   Expected ARP message interval from gateway (sec) field	The number of seconds between heartbeats for the media interface gateway. Heartbeats are sent at this interval as long as the media interface is viable. The default value is 0. The valid range is from 1 to 65535. The value you configure in this field overrides any globally applicable value set in the gateway heartbeat interval parameter in the device HA node (redundancy) configuration.
   Number of ARP request retransmissions (#) field	The number of heartbeat retries that you want sent to the media interface gateway before it is considered unreachable. The default value is 0. The valid range is from 1 to 65535.
   ARP request timeout (sec) field	The heartbeat retry time-out value in seconds. The default value is 1. The valid range is from 1 to 65535. This parameter sets the amount of time between device ARP requests to establish media interface gateway communication after a media interface gateway failure.
   Health score decrement-gateway or link failure field	The amount to subtract from the device health score if a media interface gateway heartbeat fails. If the value you set in the retry-time-out field is exceeded, this amount is subtracted from the overall health score of the system. The default value is 0. The valid range is from 0 to 100.

10. Click Apply.
11. To configure tunnel parameters for the device, click Add in the Tunnel config section.
12. In the Add Tunnel config dialog, complete the following fields:

    Name	Description
    Name field	The unique name for the IPsec tunnel configuration.
    Local IP address field	The local public IP address that terminates the IPSec tunnel.
    Remote IP address field	The remote public IP address that terminates the IPSec tunnel.

13. Click Apply.
14. In the DNS section, complete the following fields to set a specific IP address for the network interface and others that are related to different types of management traffic:

    Name	Description
    Primary field	The domain name server (DNS) server for this network interface.
    First backup field	The secondary DNS server for this network interface (if applicable).
    Second backup field	The third DNS server for this network interface (if applicable).
    Default domain name	The default domain for use with DNS queries.
    DNS timeout	The DNS timeout value.

15. To configure (HIP) host-in-path firewall functions that are used to open well-known ports for services such as FTP, ICMP, SNMP, and Telnet over the media interfaces, complete the following fields:

    Name	Description
    HIP IP addresses box	The IPv4 addresses of the front panel network interfaces that are allowed to pass administrative traffic to the host. Adding HIP entries automatically opens the well-known port associated with a service.
    FTP address field	The FTP interface IP address.
    ICMP addresses box	The ICMP interface IP address(es).
    SNMP address field	The SNMP interface IP address.
    Telnet address field	The Telnet interface IP address.
    SSH address field	The SSH interface IP address.

16. Click Apply.
17. In the Success dialog, click OK.