Application Recognition and Control

Application Recognition and Control (ARC) enables 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 tab displays the top 10 applications and the top 10 clients by usage for the last 1-hour or 24-hour time period.
  2. Create an 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 name on the Application Overview tab.
Parent topic: Configuring Security Settings