purview-app-category

application

Configures the application category type for this custom (user-defined) purview-application definition

Note

Note

This parameter is applicable only for WiNG 7.1.2 supported APs. Define the purview-app-category type of this custom application definition. Apply this custom application definition in the purview-application-group and purview-application-policy contexts.

Supported on the following WiNG 7.1.2 APs:

  • Access Points — AP505i, AP510i/e, AP560i/h

Syntax

purview-app-category <PURVIEW-APP-CATEGORY-NAME>

Parameters

purview-app-category <PURVIEW-APP-CATEGORY-NAME>
purview-app-category <PURVIEW-APP-CATEGORY-NAME> Select the category best suited for this application definition. The EAA (Extreme Application Analytics), formerly known as Purview™, supports 36 application categories with 2457 applications.
Note: Refer to Examples below for the app-categories supported by the Purview™ engine.

The default setting is custom. Use this option to categorize your internal custom applications, so that they do not appear as unknown traffic.

Examples

nx9500-6C8809(config-application-Custom)#purview-app-category
ads              biz              certs            cloud
cloudcpu         corp             custom           db
education        finance          games            health
location         mail             news             other
p2p              proto            realtimecomms    restrictcontent
search           shopping         social           sports
storage          streaming        travel           unknown
updates          vpn              webapp           webcontent
webfile          webmeet
nx9500-6C8809(config-application-Custom)#

The following example displays the canned (built-in, system-provided apps) starting with 'h':

nx9500-6C8809(config-purview-app-group-PurvAppGrp)#application h [TAB]
hashforcash  hashunited   hoopla
nx9500-6C8809(config-purview-app-group-PurvAppGrp)#

The following example, creates application definition 'hulu' and assigns it to the app-category 'streaming'.

nx9500-6C8809(config)#application hulu
nx9500-6C8809(config-application-hulu)#
nx9500-6C8809(config-application-hulu)#purview-app-category streaming
nx9500-6C8809(config-application-hulu)#show context
application hulu
 purview-app-category streaming
nx9500-6C8809(config-application-hulu)#

The following example shows 'hulu' application definition added to the list of available applications:

nx9500-6C8809(config-purview-app-group-PurvAppGrp)#application h [TAB]
hashforcash  hashunited   hoopla hulu
nx9500-6C8809(config-purview-app-group-PurvAppGrp)#

Related Commands

no Resets application category to default (custom)