About This Administration Guide
This guide shows you how use illumio-ven-ctl (for Linux, AIX, and Solaris) and illumio-ven-ctl.exe (for Windows) and other commands to administer the Virtual Enforcement Node (VEN) on a managed workload for operational tasks such as start/stop, suspend, and other functions on the VEN and with the Policy Compute Engine (PCE) in an on-premise deployment.
How To Use This Guide
The VEN Administration Guide has several main divisions:
- Overview of VEN Software Architecture and Description of Components. 
- VEN deployment models 
- Command-line-oriented sections with syntax examples for - illumio-ven-ctlfor on-workload managing the VEN.
- Basic Theory of VEN Operations.