Fine-Grain NBAR for Selective Applications

By default NBAR operates in the fine-grain mode, offering NBAR's full application recognition capabilities. Used when per-packet reporting is required, fine-grain mode offers a troubleshooting advantage. Cisco recommends using fine-grain mode only when detailed Layer 7 metrics is required to be extracted by NBAR for critical applications. The Fine-Grain NBAR for Selective Applications feature enables a customer to dynamically monitor critical applications including collection of detailed Layer 7 metrics. The feature helps troubleshoot slowness in a particular application while the rest of the applications are running in coarse-grain mode and thus preventing any impact on the performance of the system.

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Information About Fine-Grain NBAR for Selective Applications

Overview of Fine-Grain NBAR for Selective Applications

NBAR provides two levels of application recognition-coarse-grain and fine-grain. By default NBAR operates in the fine-grain mode, offering NBAR's full application recognition capabilities. The default NBAR fine-grain mode is equivalent to NBAR functionality and performance prior to introduction of separate fine-grain and coarse-grain modes. This provides full backward compatibility for existing configurations.

Used when per-packet reporting is required, fine-grain mode offers a troubleshooting advantage. Cisco recommends using fine-grain mode only when detailed Layer 7 metrics is required to be extracted by NBAR for critical applications. The fine-grain NBAR for Selective Applications feature enables a customer to dynamically monitor critical applications including collection of detailed Layer 7 metrics. The feature helps troubleshoot slowness in a particular application while the rest of the applications are running in in coarse-grain mode and thus preventing any impact on the performance of the system.

How to Configure Fine-Grain NBAR for Selective Applications

Configuring Fine-Grain NBAR for Selective Applications

SUMMARY STEPS

  1. enable
  2. configure terminal
  3. ip nbar classification granularity fine-grain protocol protocol-name
  4. exit
  5. show ip nbar classification granularity protocol protocol-name

DETAILED STEPS

  Command or Action Purpose
Step 1

enable

Example:


Device> enable

Enables privileged EXEC mode.

  • Enter your password if prompted.

Step 2

configure terminal

Example:


Device# configure terminal

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 3

ip nbar classification granularity fine-grain protocol protocol-name

Example:


Device(config)# ip nbar classification granularity fine-grain protocol 3pc
Configures the fine-grain NBAR classification mode and specifies the protocol name which represents an application.
Step 4

exit

Example:


Router(config)# exit
Exits the global configuration mode and enters privileged EXEC mode.
Step 5

show ip nbar classification granularity protocol protocol-name

Example:


Device(config)# show ip nbar classification granularity protocol 3pc
Displays the currently configured NBAR classification mode.

Configuration Examples for Fine-Grained NBAR for Selective Applications

Example: Fine-Grain NBAR for Selective Applications

The following example shows how to configure the fine-grain classification mode of NBAR and select a protocol name that represents an application: 

Device> enable
Device# configuration terminal
Device(config)# ip nbar classification granularity fine-grain protocol 3cp
Device(config)# exit

Example: Verifying the Fine-Grain NBAR for Selective Applications

The following example shows how to verify the classification granularity of the currently configured protocol: 

Device # show ip nbar classification granularity protocol 3pc

Protocol                  Force mode
------------------------------------- 
3pc                       fine-grain

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Feature Information for Fine-Grain NBAR for Selective Applications

The following table provides release information about the feature or features described in this module. This table lists only the software release that introduced support for a given feature in a given software release train. Unless noted otherwise, subsequent releases of that software release train also support that feature.

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Table 1. Feature Information for Fine-Grain NBAR for Selective Applications

Feature Name

Releases

Feature Information

Fine-Grain NBAR for Selective Applications

Cisco IOS XE Release 3.15S

By default NBAR operates in the fine-grain mode, offering NBAR's full application recognition capabilities. Used when per-packet reporting is required, fine-grain mode offers a troubleshooting advantage. Cisco recommends using fine-grain mode only when detailed Layer 7 metrics is required to be extracted by NBAR for critical applications. The fine-grain NBAR for Selective Applications feature enables a customer to dynamically monitor critical applications including collection of detailed Layer 7 metrics. The feature helps troubleshoot slowness in a particular application while the rest of the applications are running in coarse-grain mode and thus preventing any impact on the performance of the system.

The following command was introduced or modified:

ip nbar custom .