Application Control Engine Module Command Reference (Software Version A1(2))
Preface

Table Of Contents

Preface

Audience

How to Use This Guide

Related Documentation

Symbols and Conventions

Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines


Preface


This guide provides the following information:

The command-line interface (CLI) for the Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) module and how to use the CLI.

The CLI commands, including syntax, options, and related commands.

This preface contains the following major sections:

Audience

How to Use This Guide

Related Documentation

Symbols and Conventions

Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

Documentation Feedback

Cisco Product Security Overview

Obtaining Technical Assistance

Obtaining Additional Publications and Information

Audience

This guide is intended for the following trained and qualified service personnel who are responsible for configuring the ACE:

Web master

System administrator

System operator

How to Use This Guide

This guide is organized as follows:

Chapter
Description

Chapter 1, Using the Command-Line Interface

Describes how to use the command-line interface (CLI) on the ACE.

Chapter 2, CLI Commands

This chapter provides detailed information for the following types of CLI commands for the ACE:

Commands you can enter after you log in to the ACE.

Configure mode commands are commands you can enter after you log in to the ACE, and then access global configuration mode and its subset of modes.


Related Documentation

In addition to this document, the ACE documentation set includes the following:

Document Title
Description

Release Note for the
Cisco Application Control Engine Module

This release note provides information on operating considerations, caveats, and command-line interface (CLI) commands for the ACE.

Cisco Application Control Engine Module
Hardware Installation Note

This guide provides information for installing the ACE into the Catalyst 6500 series switch.

Cisco Application Control Engine Module
Getting Started Guide

This guide describes how to perform the initial setup and configuration tasks for the ACE.

Cisco Application Control Engine Module Administration Guide

This guide describes how to perform ACE administration configuration tasks, ACE, including initial setup, remote access, class maps and policy maps, managing the ACE software, SNMP, system message logging, redundancy, and upgrading your ACE software.

Cisco Application Control Engine Module Virtualization Configuration Guide

This guide provides instructions on how to operate your ACEin a single-context or in multiple-contexts. Multiple-contexts use the concept of virtualization to partition your ACE into multiple virtual devices or contexts.

Cisco Application Control Engine Module Routing and Bridging Configuration Guide

This guide provides instructions for configuring the routing and bridging features of the ACE. This guide provides a routing overview and describes how to perform ACE configuration tasks, including:

Configuring VLANs

Configuring routing

Configuring bridging

Configuring Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)

Configuring Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

Cisco Application Control Engine Module Server Load-Balancing Configuration Guide

This guide describes how to perform ACE server load-balancing configuration tasks, including:

Server health monitoring

Real servers and server farms

Stickiness

Class maps and policy maps to load-balance traffic to real servers in server farms

Firewall load balancing

TCL scripts

Cisco Application Control Engine Module Security Configuration Guide

This guide describes how to perform ACE security configuration tasks, including:

Security access control lists (ACLs)

User authentication and accounting using a TACACS+, RADIUS, or LDAP server

Application protocol and HTTP deep packet inspection

TCP/IP normalization and termination parameters

Network address translation (NAT)

Cisco Application Control Engine Module SSL Configuration Guide

This guide describes how to perform ACE SSL configuration tasks, including:

SSL certificate and keys

SSL initiation

SSL termination

End-to-end SSL


Symbols and Conventions

This publication uses the following conventions:

Convention
Description

boldface font

Commands, command options, and keywords are in boldface. Bold text also indicates a command in a paragraph.

italic font

Arguments for which you supply values are in italics. Italic text also indicates the first occurrence of a new term, book title, emphasized text.

{   }

Encloses required arguments and keywords.

[   ]

Encloses optional arguments and keywords.

{ x | y | z }

Required alternative keywords are grouped in braces and separated by vertical bars.

[ x | y | z ]

Optional alternative keywords are grouped in brackets and separated by vertical bars.

string

A nonquoted set of characters. Do not use quotation marks around the string or the string will include the quotation marks.

screen font

Terminal sessions and information the system displays are in screen font.

boldface screen font

Information you must enter in a command line is in boldface screen font.

italic screen font

Arguments for which you supply values are in italic screen font.

^

The symbol ^ represents the key labeled Control—for example, the key combination ^D in a screen display means hold down the Control key while you press the D key.

<   >

Nonprinting characters, such as passwords are in angle brackets.


Italic text indicates the first occurrence of a new term, book title, emphasized text, and variables for which you supply values.

1. A numbered list indicates that the order of the list items is important.

a. An alphabetical list indicates that the order of the secondary list items is important.

A bulleted list indicates that the order of the list topics is unimportant.

An indented list indicates that the order of the list subtopics is unimportant.

Notes use the following conventions:


Note Means reader take note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to material not covered in the publication.


Cautions use the following conventions:


Caution Means reader be careful. In this situation, you might do something that could result in equipment damage or loss of data.

Warnings use the following conventions:


Warning Means possible physical harm or equipment damage. A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm or damage the equipment.


For additional information about CLI syntax formatting, refer to Chapter 1, Using the Command-Line Interface.

Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

For information on obtaining documentation, obtaining support, providing documentation feedback, security guidelines, and also recommended aliases and general Cisco documents, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html