Glossary

This glossary contains definition of terms that appear throughout the user's guide.

admin port

Dedicated Ethernet port for administration use.

clear

Clear text, clear port, and similar terms refer to non-encrypted data

in-band traffic

A network traffic that reaches the in-band ports, as opposed to the administration port. The in-band ports are usually connected to switches or other production network devices, while the administration traffic is sometimes confined to an administration private LAN.

incoming traffic

Traffic that goes from the client to the server.

inline

A mode of operation in which the client traffic and server traffic each use a separate physical port on the SSL proxy blade.

outgoing traffic

Traffic that goes from the server to the client.

secure

Secure port and similar terms refer to encrypted data.

traffic ports

Ethernet ports used for traffic. There are two traffic ports, also called in-band ports.

watchdog

The SSL proxy blade has a watchdog device that checks for an electronic heart beat of a supervisory process. This process checks all other supervised processes. If the watchdog misses a heart beat, it will reboot the SSL proxy blade, which allows recovery in case of unexpected failure or loss of control.