Enable Application Identification

You can enable Application Identification for the required ports of a Sensor. By default, this feature is disabled.

Note

Enabling Application Identification affects only the Top Application Summary dashboard and has no impact on the Firewall feature.

Important

Identifying applications is a resource-intensive process. If the Sensor performs application identification on the entire traffic, the Sensor throughput could be reduced by about 10%. The amount of actual throughput drop varies based on the type of traffic.

1. Select Devices → <Admin Domain Name> → Devices → <Device Name> → Setup → Application Identification.
   The Application Identification page is displayed.
2. Select Enable Application Identification?

   All the monitoring ports that are currently enabled and up are listed under Selected Ports. This means the Application Identification feature is enabled at these ports.

   
   
   

3. Use the arrow marks to move the items between Available Ports and Selected Ports.
   Make sure only those ports for which you want to enable the Application Identification feature are listed under Selected Ports.
4. Click Save.
5. Do a configuration update to the Sensor.