topic looking up a specific connection on the ACE in Application Networking

looking up a specific connection on the ACE

axfalk — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:59:01 GMT

Hi.

We're running the ACE SMs version A2(3.3) and need to be able to look up the connection that traversed the ACE awhile ago. Since it was a successful connection, it didn't get register in the logs. Is there any other way to find it?

thanks..

Greg...

looking up a specific connection on the ACE

Jorge Bejarano — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:57:19 GMT

Axfalk,

I hope you are doing great.

I am afraid there's no specific feature like that in the ACE 10/20 since the ACE was not designed for that.

You may increase the logging level in your ACE but not necessary might collect what you are looking for.

I think the type of monitoring you want to do for reporting to be presented to your management can be done through SNMP server. You may require to get SNMP MIB for the that.

Mark it if it is useful

Hope this helps!

Jorge

looking up a specific connection on the ACE

ajayku2 — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:46:00 GMT

Hi Greg,

depending on the version of the ACE. The connection may be their on ACE for max 3600 seconds. ( idle connection)

If you are curious to track a connection which has been established within an hour and not closed by client then you can use the following link that explains everything.

http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Cisco_Application_Control_Engine_(ACE)_Troubleshooting_Guide_--_Troubleshooting_Connectivity#Internal_Mapping_of_ACE_TCP_and_UDP_Flows

Read section : Tracking Connections Through the ACE

Ideally commands such as

show conn details or show conn

You can also filter with pipe specifying the ip address of client

show conn detail | in 10.10.10.10

regards,

Ajay Kumar