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Configuring
NetFlow Secure Event Logging
(NSEL)
This chapter describes how to configure NSEL, a security logging mechanism that is built on NetFlow
Version 9 technology, and how to handle events and syslog messages through NSEL.
This chapter includes the following sections:
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Information About NSEL, page 1-1
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Licensing Requirements for NSEL, page 1-4
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Prerequisites for NSEL, page 1-4
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Guidelines and Limitations, page 1-4
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Configuration Examples for NSEL, page 1-10
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Additional References, page 1-11
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Feature History for NSEL, page 1-12
Information About NSEL
This section includes the following topics:
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Using NSEL and Syslog Messages, page 1-2
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Using NSEL in Clustering, page 1-3
The ASA and ASASM support NetFlow Version 9 services. For more information about NetFlow
services, see the
The ASA and ASASM implementations of NSEL provide a stateful, IP flow tracking method that exports
only those records that indicate significant events in a flow. In stateful flow tracking, tracked flows go
through a series of state changes. NSEL events are used to export data about flow status and are triggered
by the event that caused the state change.
The significant events that are tracked include flow-create, flow-teardown, flow-denied (excluding those
flows that are denied by EtherType ACLs), and flow-update. In addition, the ASA and ASASM
implementation of NSEL generates periodic NSEL events and flow-update events to provide periodic
Summary of Contents for 5505 - ASA Firewall Edition Bundle
Page 28: ...Glossary GL 24 Cisco ASA Series CLI Configuration Guide ...
Page 61: ...P A R T 1 Getting Started with the ASA ...
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Page 219: ...P A R T 2 Configuring High Availability and Scalability ...
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Page 403: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Interfaces ...
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Page 499: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Basic Settings ...
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Page 533: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Objects and Access Lists ...
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Page 601: ...P A R T 2 Configuring IP Routing ...
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Page 745: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Network Address Translation ...
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Page 845: ...P A R T 2 Configuring AAA Servers and the Local Database ...
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Page 981: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Access Control ...
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Page 1061: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Service Policies Using the Modular Policy Framework ...
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Page 1093: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Application Inspection ...
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Page 1191: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Unified Communications ...
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Page 1333: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Connection Settings and QoS ...
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Page 1379: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Advanced Network Protection ...
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Page 1475: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Modules ...
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Page 1549: ...P A R T 2 Configuring VPN ...
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Page 1965: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Logging SNMP and Smart Call Home ...
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Page 2059: ...P A R T 2 System Administration ...
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