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Creating Fingerprints Based on an Application or Application Group
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Create Custom Fingerprints Based on
Application or Application Group
The ExtremeAnalytics feature uses fingerprints to identify to which application a
network traffic flow belongs. A fingerprint is a description of a pattern of
network traffic which can be used to identify an application. Extreme
Management Center provides thousands of system fingerprints with the
ExtremeAnalytics feature. In addition, you can create new custom fingerprints.
Creating Fingerprints Based on an Application or
Application Group
This example demonstrates how to create a fingerprint for some unclassified
web traffic.
In the Extreme Management Center Application Flows table (with the Show
Unclassified Web Traffic View selected), several flows for the "yahoo ads"
application are part of the Web Applications group. The following instructions
will allow you to create a fingerprint that provides an application and application
group specifically for this traffic, instead of letting it default to the Web
Applications group. The new fingerprint categorizes "yahoo ads" flows into the
Yahoo Ads ld application and the Advertising application group.
Use the following steps to create the fingerprint.
1. Select the Analytics tab in Extreme Management Center.
2. Select the Application Flows tab.
3. In the table, select the Show Unclassified Web Traffic View.
4. Right-click on a flow with the yahoo ads application and select Fingerprints > Add
Fingerprint.