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82 ServerIron ADX Graphical User Interface Guide
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Content switching
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1. Create rules—Define a request rule or response rule to identify specific application data within
a request or a response.
2. Create policies—Create a request policy or response policy to specify multiple rules and the
desired actions to be taken when the traffic matches the rule.
3. Binding policies—Apply the created policy to a virtual server port.
To create a content switching policy on the device, perform the following steps within the Configure
tab.
1. Click Traffic on the menu bar.
2. From the sidebar, select Content Switching.
The steps to provision the Layer 7 Content Switching (CSW) policy page are displayed, as
shown in Figure 64.
FIGURE 64 Content switching summary
The page provides a brief step-by-step instructions for creating a request rule and policy for
incoming traffic and response rule and policy for outgoing traffic.
Creating rules
You can create a request and response rules for the device to process the incoming and outgoing
traffic.
Creating request rules
A request rule specifies the content that the device looks for in the incoming traffic.
To create a Layer 7 request rule for incoming traffic on the device, perform the following steps
within the Configure tab.
1. Click Traffic on the menu bar.
2. From the sidebar, select Content Switching, and then select Request Rules.