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Cisco Security Appliance Command Line Configuration Guide
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Chapter 6 Adding and Managing Security Contexts
Configuring Resource Management
For example, to set the default class limit for conns to 10 percent instead of unlimited, enter the
following commands:
hostname(config)# class default
hostname(config-class)# limit-resource conns 10%
All other resources remain at unlimited.
To add a class called gold, enter the following commands:
hostname(config)# class gold
Table 6-1 Resource Names and Limits
Resource Name
Rate or
Concurrent
Minimum and
Maximum Number
per Context System Limit
1
1. If this column value is N/A, then you cannot set a percentage of the resource because there is no hard system limit for the resource.
Description
mac-addresses Concurrent N/A 65,535 For transparent firewall mode, the number of
MAC addresses allowed in the MAC address
table.
conns Concurrent
or Rate
N/A Concurrent connections:
See the “Supported
Platforms and Feature
Licenses” section on
page A-1 for the
connection limit for your
platform.
Rate: N/A
TCP or UDP connections between any two
hosts, including connections between one
host and multiple other hosts.
inspects Rate N/A N/A Application inspections.
hosts Concurrent N/A N/A Hosts that can connect through the security
appliance.
asdm Concurrent 1 minimum
5 maximum
32 ASDM management sessions.
Note ASDM sessions use two HTTPS
connections: one for monitoring that
is always present, and one for making
configuration changes that is present
only when you make changes. For
example, the system limit of 32
ASDM sessions represents a limit of
64 HTTPS sessions.
ssh Concurrent 1 minimum
5 maximum
100 SSH sessions.
syslogs Rate N/A N/A System log messages.
telnet Concurrent 1 minimum
5 maximum
100 Telnet sessions.
xlates Concurrent N/A N/A Address translations.