Configuring Application Controls

Using the Application Control screen, you can identify, control, and monitor applications that are running on wireless and wired clients associated with managed APs, and you can also apply filtering policies to prevent users from accessing certain applications.

Additionally, you can create your own user-defined applications, import an updated application signature package, and configure rate limiting and QoS traffic shaping policies based on system-defined or user-defined applications.

7.0 update
AP-to-AP communication provides client roaming support with Application Visibility Control (AVC) features such as Application Recognition Control (ARC) and URL Filtering. ARC will work on the destination AP based on its app-id.

In this section:

  1. Viewing an Application Control Summary
    You can view an application-specific or port-specific summary in a chart or table format.
  2. Creating an Application Control Policy
    An application control policy is created to limit and classify traffic into priority queues using QoS traffic shaping rules, or to completely block access to an application.
  3. Implementing an Application Control Policy
    Deploying an application control policy involves configuring a Firewall Profile with the policy, and then applying that profile to a WLAN.
  4. Creating a User-Defined Application
    When an application is unrecognized and generically (or incorrectly) categorized, the controller is unable to monitor its traffic, unless you configure an explicit application identification policy based on IP address or mask, port, and protocol.
  5. Working with Application Signature Packages
    RUCKUS periodically releases and makes new application signature packages available for download.
Parent topic: Managing a Firewall Profile