Use the application-group command to specify a group of (one or more) applications.
Use no application-group to remove one or more applications from an application group or to delete the group, itself.
If your ACLs or policy maps contain match conditions that involve multiple applications, you can simplify the match conditions with
application groups. Application groups are identifiers that you can create to represent a list of applications.
You create an application group by naming the group and specifying at least one application that belongs in it. After creating it, you can modify the application group by adding or removing applications.
To add applications to an application group that already exists, enter the name of the application group, followed by the applications you are adding. For example, to add two applications to the application group,
omega, you might use the following command:
If omega did not exist, the CLI would create it and it would contain these two applications.
If you then wanted to remove http from
omega, you would issue the following command:
The application-group command has the following restrictions:
To create an application group, encrypted, that contains the applications SSH, HTTPS, and SFTP: