Application Recognition and Control

The Application Recognition and Control (ARC) features enable administrators to monitor which applications are generating the most wireless traffic, to apply filtering policies to prevent users from accessing certain applications or to rate limit certain applications, and to enhance the built-in application recognition capabilities with custom applications and port mappings.

In this section:

  1. Application Overview
    The Application Overview page displays the top 10 applications and the top 10 clients by usage for the last 1 hour or 24 hour time period.
  2. Application Policy
    Application Policies can be configured to control access to applications or to control traffic generated by applications.
  3. Applying an Application Policy to a WLAN
  4. User Defined Applications
    When an application is unrecognized and generically (or incorrectly) categorized, you can configure an explicit application identification policy by IP Address/Mask, Port and Protocol. Wireless traffic that matches the configured policy will be displayed using the policy's name on the Application Overview page.
Parent topic: Services