Cisco Cisco Firepower Management Center 4000

You can also set up inactive periods in traffic profile. For example, consider a network infrastructure 
where all the workstations are backed up at midnight every night. The backup takes about 30 minutes 
and spikes the network traffic. In that case, you might want to set up a recurring inactive period for your 
traffic profile to coincide with the scheduled backups. During inactive periods, the traffic profile collects 
data (so you can see the traffic on the traffic profile graphs), but that data is not used when calculating 
profile statistics. You can set up inactive periods to recur daily, weekly, or monthly. Inactive periods can 
be as short as five minutes or as long as one hour. Traffic profile graphs plotted over time show inactive 
periods as a shaded region.

Admin/Discovery Admin 

Follow the directions in the following table to set profile options.

FireSIGHT

Use the following procedure to save a traffic profile.

Admin/Discovery Admin 

You have two options:

To save the profile without activating it, click 

.

To save the profile and start collecting data immediately, click 

.

FireSIGHT

When you want it to begin profiling the traffic on a monitored network segment, you must activate a 
traffic profile.

change the profiling time window

in the 

 field, type the number of hours, days, 

or weeks. Then choose 

, 

, or 

 from the 

drop-down list.

change the sampling rate

select the rate from the 

 drop-down list.

add an inactive period

click 

. Then, using the drop-down lists, specify 

when and how often you want the traffic profile to refrain from 
collecting data.

delete an inactive period

click 

 next to the inactive period you want to delete.