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Cisco ASA 5500 Series Configuration Guide using ASDM
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Configuring a Service Policy
Service policies provide a consistent and flexible way to configure ASA features. For example, you can
use a service policy to create a timeout configuration that is specific to a particular TCP application, as
opposed to one that applies to all TCP applications. A service policy consists of multiple service policy
rules applied to an interface or applied globally.
This chapter includes the following sections:
•Information About Service Policies, page36-1
•Licensing Requirements for Service Policies, page 36-5
•Guidelines and Limitations, page36-6
•Default Settings, page36-6
•Task Flows for Configuring Service Policies, page36-8
•Adding a Service Policy Rule for Through Traffic, page36-8
•Adding a Service Policy Rule for Management Traffic, page36-12
•Managing the Order of Service Policy Rules, page36-14
•Feature History for Service Policies, page36-16

Information About Service Policies

This section describes how service policies work and includes the following topics:
•Supported Features for Through Traffic, page36-1
•Supported Features for Management Traffic, page36-2
•Feature Directionality, page36-2
•Feature Matching Within a Service Policy, page36-3
•Order in Which Multiple Feature Actions are Applied, page36-4
•Incompatibility of Certain Feature Actions, page36-5
•Feature Matching for Multiple Service Policies, page36-5

Supported Features for Through Traffic

Table36-1 lists the features supported by service policy rules.