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Cisco ASA Series CLI Configuration Guide
Chapter 1 Configuring Inspection of Basic Internet Protocols
Instant Messaging Inspection
IM Inspection Overview
The IM inspect engine lets you apply fine grained controls on the IM application to control the network
usage and stop leakage of confidential data, propagation of worms, and other threats to the corporate
network.
Configuring an Instant Messaging Inspection Policy Map for Additional
Inspection Control
To specify actions when a message violates a parameter, create an IM inspection policy map. You can
then apply the inspection policy map when you enable IM inspection.
To create an IM inspection policy map, perform the following steps:
Step 1
(Optional) Add one or more regular expressions for use in traffic matching commands according to the
“Creating a Regular Expression” section on page 1-14
. See the types of text you can match in the
match
commands described in
Step 2
(Optional) Create one or more regular expression class maps to group regular expressions according to
the
“Creating a Regular Expression Class Map” section on page 1-17
.s
Step 3
(Optional) Create an IM inspection class map by performing the following steps.
A class map groups multiple traffic matches. Traffic must match
all
of the
match
commands to match
the class map. You can alternatively identify
match
commands directly in the policy map. The difference
between creating a class map and defining the traffic match directly in the inspection policy map is that
the class map lets you create more complex match criteria, and you can reuse class maps.
To specify traffic that should not match the class map, use the
match not
command. For example, if the
match not
command specifies the string “example.com,” then any traffic that includes “example.com”
does not match the class map.
For the traffic that you identify in this class map, you can specify actions such as drop-connection, reset,
and/or log the connection in the inspection policy map.
If you want to perform different actions for each
match
command, you should identify the traffic directly
in the policy map.
a.
Create the class map by entering the following command:
hostname(config)#
class-map type
inspect im
[
match-all
|
match-any
]
class_map_name
hostname(config-cmap)#
Where
the class_map_name
is the name of the class map. The
match-all
keyword is the default, and
specifies that traffic must match all criteria to match the class map. The
match-any
keyword
specifies that the traffic matches the class map if it matches at least one of the criteria. The CLI
enters class-map configuration mode, where you can enter one or more
match
commands.
b.
(Optional) To add a description to the class map, enter the following command:
hostname(config-cmap)#
description
string
Where
the string
is the description of the class map (up to 200 characters).
c.
(Optional) To match traffic of a specific IM protocol, such as Yahoo or MSN, enter the following
command:
hostname(config-cmap)#
match [not] protocol {im-yahoo | im-msn}
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