Deploying Application Intelligence and Meta data for Identifying Custom Applications (6.2)

Introduction

Organizations use home-grown applications for various reasons including to protect their intellectual property and data, to customize and drive time-to-market and to keep costs under check. These applications must be monitored for their usage, performance, compliance, regulatory and security requirements. Since these applications wouldn't be well-known, identifying them could pose a challenge.

Gigamon's Application Intelligence solution can not only help in defining signatures for identifying and filtering such applications, but also help in generating metadata to seamlessly ingest in the observability tools for better monitoring.

The following Gigamon Validated Design (GVD) illustrates covers how to identify the custom applications using Application Intelligence and generate metadata which can help seamlessly ingest in the observability tools for better monitoring.

Topology Diagram

Design Overview

This design presumes an enterprise network tapping traffic from sources using physical taps. The tapped traffic would process using GigaVUE-HC3 device.

Gigamon's Application filtering is used to configure the custom application to a user defined applications based on the Application IP address and filter the custom applications traffic and send it to Out-of-band tool such as Intrusion Detection System (IDS). Additionally, the Application Metadata is used to generate the metadata for the custom applications.

You can configure user defined applications based on SSL, HTTP, TCP, and UDP attributes.

 

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