Turn on Traffic Discovery for an Individual Class

Certain classes — such as PVC, VLAN, subnet, Citrix, DICOM, Oracle, PostgreSQL, RTCP, and RTP classes — can be more specifically classified. For these types of classes, you can choose to enable traffic discovery within the class. If you turn on traffic discovery:

• for a subnet class (such as Marketing or Engineering), PacketWise will discover all the traffic running on the subnet and create child classes for these services.
• for Oracle and PostgreSQL classes, PacketWise will create child classes for each database that is discovered.
• for Citrix classes, PacketWise will create child classes by published application.
• for DICOM classes, PacketWise will automatically discover DICOM client or server applications.
• for RTP and RTCP classes, PacketWise will automatically create child classes by encoding name (codec).

Traffic discovery cannot be enabled within some classes because the auto-discovery process cannot categorize those traffic types in any greater detail. For example, a class that matches on IPX cannot be further auto-classified.

Note: To perform this task from PolicyCenter, you must first select a configuration from the Editing Configuration drop-down list at the top of the page.

In order for class discovery to work, you must have traffic discovery enabled. If discovery is enabled for a class, but is turned off for the unit, new classes will not be discovered. See Enable/Disable Traffic Discovery.

To turn on traffic discovery for a specific traffic class:

1. Click the manage tab on the navigation bar. The Traffic Class window appears.

2. Select the class name In the left window pane. The class' details appear in the Traffic Class window.  show screen

3. Locate the Traffic Discovery within Class option.

Note: If "Not Available" appears next to Traffic Discovery within Class, the selected class cannot be classified in any greater detail.

4. Select the Enabled checkbox.

5. Click apply changes.

See also:

Create a Citrix-ICA Class

Create a Database Class