Cisco Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module

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This document describes how to use the CSS-to-ACE conversion tool to migrate Cisco Content Services 
Switches (CSS) running-configuration or startup-configuration files to the Cisco Application Control 
Engine (ACE) module. It describes how to access the conversion tool, use the tool to convert a CSS 
configuration to an ACE configuration, and copy the converted configuration to the ACE. This document 
also includes a summary of the CSS commands that are not supported by the conversion tool. 

This document contains the following sections:

The conversion tool is included as part of the ACE software image and is accessible from the Cisco ACE 
Module web page using HTTP. To access the conversion tool, perform the following steps:

Log in to the ACE CLI. 

Create a Layer 3 and Layer 4 management policy. Ensure that, at a minimum, you permit HTTP traffic 
in the management policy to enable remote access to the Cisco ACE Module web page. The following 
configuration example shows how to enable web access to the ACE to access the ACE web page. For 
details on enabling remote access to the ACE, see the Cisco Application Control Engine Module 
Administration Guide.

class-map type management match-any L4_REMOTE-ACCESS_CLASS

  description Enable remote access traffic to the ACE and the Cisco ACE Module web page

  2 match protocol https any

  4 match protocol icmp any

  5 match protocol telnet any

  6 match protocol ssh any

  7 match protocol http any

policy-map type management first-match L4_REMOTE-ACCESS_MATCH