About Attributes

The information that NBAR2 uses to recognize and classify application traffic is organized as application protocols. Each protocol has a set of attributes that relate to the specific network application. The list of attribute types are provided here.

Attribute Types

Attribute

Description

Categorization

application-family

Categorization of the application: scheme 1.

application-set

Categorization of the application: scheme 2.

category

Categorization of the application: scheme 3.

sub-category

Application usage.

Service

application-group

Group of applications that belong to the same service.

Priority

business-relevance

Indicates business-oriented applications.

Traffic attributes

encrypted

Possible encrypted traffic.

p2p-technology

Peer-to-peer traffic.

traffic-class

Application class-of-service (based on RFC 4594).

tunnel

Tunnel-related traffic.