app-category (application-config-mode)

Configures the category for this application definition

Supported on the following devices:

Syntax

app-category <APP-CATEGORY-NAME>

Parameters

app-category <APP-CATEGORY-NAME>
app-category <APP-CATEGORY-NAME> Select the category best suited for this application definition. There are twenty three categories. These are: business, conference, custom, database, filetransfer, gaming, generic, im, mail, mobile, network\ management, other, p2p, remote_control, social\ networking, standard, streaming, tunnel, video, voip, and Web.

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-Bing)#app-category [TAB]
business             conference           custom
database             filetransfer         gaming
generic              im                   mail
mobile               network\ management  other
p2p                  remote_control       sharehosting
social\ networking   streaming            tunnel
voip                 web

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

Related Commands

no Resets application category to default (custom)