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Protecting your Snapt Aria install (best practices) The aim of this guide is to help you get the best possible experience and performance from your Snapt Aria instance. Below, we give you advice and tips for getting the most out of your infrastr...

Depending on your VM (particularly hyper-v) you may have a problem where the disk is not correctly picked up after your first install. If this happens then before your reboot for the first time you will need to edit the file: /boot/grub/menu.ls...

Snapt Aria License Login After you have deployed Snapt Aria virtual load balancer, you’ll first need to log in with your Snapt shop username and password and then select your trial or paid license. You’ll see the following when the above is requ...

If you are receiving an error in Snapt Aria with the keywords: There has been a serious error: SQLSTATE then you likely have a crashed or corrupted SQLite database. SQLite and Snapt Aria: Snapt Aria uses two SQLite databases – one which is for S...

HAProxy is free, open-source software that provides a high availability load balancer and proxy server for TCP and HTTP-based applications that spread requests across multiple servers. It is quite fast and efficient in terms of processor and memory ...

start.sh for the Snapt Aria bundle isn’t working When you run /usr/local/snapt/start.sh and it gives you an error, the most likely cause is that you might be using the wrong version or the wrong architecture (64vit vs 32bit). Please ensure that yo...

By default, the Snapt Aria installation will momentarily check to ensure that it’s framework, modules/plugins and system updates are up-to-date. In cases whereby the installation doesn’t have access to the internet to check these, there will be a la...

What is a PEM? One of the most widely used features of our virtual Load Balancer is the ability to offload SSL traffic by terminating HTTPS connections on the load balancer itself. This has a variety of benefits including; centralized certif...

Snapt Aria uses two SQLite databases and depending on your logging preferences, error rate, number of servers and more they can get quite large. On systems with less CPU, memory and slower disks, this can cause performance problems within the UI. ...

These are application errors; typically SQL. They are not related to Snapt Aria but rather are from the upstream server.

On Snapt Aria instances deployed from an official Snapt VM image, static network routes can be added under Setup -> System -> Static Routes:

HAProxy is free, open-source software that provides a high availability load balancer and proxy server for TCP and HTTP-based applications that spread requests across multiple servers. It is quite fast and efficient in terms of processor and memory ...

The aim of this guide is to help you get the best possible experience and performance from your Snapt Aria instance. Below, we give you advice and tips for getting the most out of your infrastructure and Snapt Aria configuration. Snapt Aria syst...

What is the Snapt Aria Cache The Snapt Aria Cache module is a powerful, feature-packed web cache and frontend for the cache server. Among many features, it includes reports, monitoring, a full configuration editor and much more. Caching is especia...

Install Snapt Aria from the AWS Marketplace Snapt Aria is available for deployment from the AWS marketplace. The instructions below highlight the steps involved. Step 1 Visit Snapt's AWS marketplace profile page  and click on the ADC listing....

Snapt Aria Redundancy provides full Active/Passive redundancy for all Snapt Aria modules. We provide a full manual for the Snapt Aria Redundancy module. Download pdf from the attachment below:

Snapt Aria ADC (Application Delivery Controller) is an excellent virtual Load Balancing, Web Acceleration, and Web Application Firewall solution for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We provide full support for deployments in GCP. Deployment Step...

To install a full Application Delivery Controller solution, please follow the instructions below. Please do note, that this guide is for the ideal full ADC use, and your use case might not require the use of the Accelerator or WAF modules. Requi...

How to Reset your Snapt Aria UI password via the SSH console: In order to reset the Snapt Aria admin password to "admin" you need to manually edit the database on the device Important! The path may be /srv/www/htdocs/db/, or /usr/local/snapt/pro...

By default, the Snapt Aria installation will momentarily check to ensure that it's framework, modules/plugins and system updates are up-to-date. In cases whereby the installation doesn't have access to the internet to check these, there will be a la...

Snapt Aria uses SQLite , a file-based light-weight relational database management system (RDBMS). If some of the various tables stored in SQLite got corrupted, you might come across the following error: There has been a serious error: SQLSTAT...

The Snapt Aria Lets Encrypt v2 plugin allows you to issue and manage Let’s Encrypt certificates directly from the Snapt Aria UI. Install the plugin If the older Lets Encrypt plugin is in use, please follow these instructions to migrate your pr...

We take a look at installing the Snapt Aria Application Delivery Controller (ADC). This includes the setup of the Snapt Aria Load Balancer, Web Accelerator, and Web Accelerator Firewall (WAF) modules. We run through a basic setup of the HTTP Load ...

The Snapt Aria Lets Encrypt v2 plugin allows you to issue and manage Let’s Encrypt certificates directly from the Snapt Aria UI. Install the plugin If the older Lets Encrypt plugin is in use, please follow these instructions to migrate your pre-...

Using Snapt Aria Backup to migrate Snapt Backup is a free plugin provided with Snapt Aria which allows you to take a backup of your configuration, and to restore backups to systems. This is commonly used when migrating from one Snapt Aria instal...

When you submit a support ticket, the support team might need to know which version of the Snapt Aria VM image you are currently running. You can quickly and easily get this information via the CLI console/SSH session to Snapt. How to check the Sn...

What is the Snapt Aria Cache? The Snapt Aria Cache module is a powerful, feature-packed web cache and frontend for the cache server. Among many features, it includes reports, monitoring, a full configuration editor and much more. Caching is esp...

NOTE: this requires access to your Snapt Aria instances over CLI or SSH in some form. This guide applies to Snapt Aria Official Images only Step 1: Backup your existing lighttpd.pem fil...

Each license is attached to a unique install key that is generated based on the hardware Snapt Aria is running on. If you plan to migrate your Snapt Aria instance to a new server you’ll need to clear the license install key and replace it with your ...

Serializing is a crucial part of setting up a non-trial version of Snapt Aria. This allows us to generate your license which in turn will allow you to use the Framework, get updates and support. Please Note If you are cha...

Snapt Aria email setup is important as it allows the system to contact you in the event of problems, for lost passwords, reporting and any other communications from the user interface (UI). We support using Sendmail (the systems built-in email) or...

Snapt Aria Load Balancer: How to stop management connections on 8080 Redundancy Warning Please note that if you have configured redundancy over HTTP, that this change below will break your local replication of config (Pri...

Setting up your SSL certificate is the first step in enabling a series of security and performance optimizations such as SSL Offloading and Web Acceleration. In order to proxy SSL content, and be able to inspect the content, we must have an SSL ce...

How to change the port the Snapt Aria UI runs on? If you are running a Snapt Aria bundle or VM image you will notice that by default the server runs on port 8080. This may be undesirable as you may want to use that port for something else. Ple...

You can easily remove your demo license and load your newly purchased license by going to Dashboard > License and then clicking on either Delete Demo License Don't panic! Changing your license or serial number won't...

Snapt Aria instances deployed using our official VM images come set to GMT+0 aka UTC. This affects the graphs, reporting, and dates in alerts and more. You can change this to whatever time zone you prefer. We recommend also configuring Time Sync (...

You should expect there to be no downtime when performing updates related to the Snapt Aria Framework and Plugins. Framework and plugins updates do not do any backend updates, only System Patches. Thus, you can safely apply a framework or plug...

How to login to the console on Snapt Aria’s EC2 image? By design on EC2 there is no available username/password for the SSH access. You have to use the private key that you selected when launching it to log in. ssh -i yourkey root@yourip ...

Snapt Aria Error "ionCube Loader is the Incorrect Version" If you have downloaded a 32bit Bundle from Snapt Aria before 2013 then you may find that when you update a version you receive an error saying that your ionCube loader is the incorrect ver...

When installing Snapt Aria HAProxy or Load Balancer Snaptin, you are given the option to either integrate or perform a new installation. Should you be required to manually install the HAProxy binary, please follow the instructions below. Depen...

Snapt Aria Redundancy provides full Active/Passive redundancy for all Snapt Aria modules. We provide a full manual for the Snapt Aria Redundancy module. Download pdf from the attachment below:

To download the Snapt Aria images you can visit the client site  which is the primary and best place to download Snapt products but it will require you to log in. It is also the only place to get Bundled installers for existing setups. We do prov...

Snapt Aria Framework GUI On Snapt Aria image instances you are able to patch the OS to keep it up to date. This utilizes the zypper binary for the older OpenSuse Snapt Aria Images and apt-get for the newer Snapt Aria Ubuntu Images. OS patches ca...

Any notice that is generated on the system is automatically emailed to the admin users' email address. You can set that by going Setup -> User Management . If you are still not receiving the emails you may need to configure an SMTP se...

We discuss how to deploy a Snapt Aria Instance using Microsoft Hyper V. We go into detail on the setup as well as workarounds of issues you might encounter. Such as checking the content of the Grub bootloader and modifying the references to the disc...

In this video, we cover how to install Snapt Aria on ESXI. We take you step by step through the process of deployment of the OVF template (downloaded from the Snapt website), installation and setup of the Virtual machine. To complete this setup, you...

If you are receiving an error on the console about "dev fd0" it is a VM/Snapt configuration issue where we have incorrectly picked up a floppy device on the VM. You do not have to worry about this, and it will not have any negative side effects, b...

After downloading either the standalone or bundle versions of Snapt Aria from our client site , if you receive the error "tar: Unexpected EOF in archive" while trying to extract the archive, it is more than likely that the download that you have is...

If something has happened to either the snapt.db or the log.db SQLite databases used by Snapt Aria, chances are you have come across the following error: There has been a serious error: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 11 database disk image is m...

Downtime when updating the Snapt Aria device. You should expect no downtime when performing updates related to the Snapt Aria framework and plugins. Framework and plugin updates done using the Snapr Aria User Interface do not do any backend upda...