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Configuring Network Services Quality of Service (QoS) Network Management
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The Analyze Rules button follows a logic tree to highlight potential conflicts between the flows and actions for the device
types. The following figure is an example.
TABLE 6-19 Options for the QoS Policy Maintenance Window
Option Purpose
Target
Device
Classes
The device classes to be included in this Policy.
Set Targets Brings up the Edit QOS Device Class List, allowing the user to select any combination of device
classes to include.Press and Hold the SHift key to select more than one device class.
Note that if a device class is chosen that does not support the existing rules in a Policy, an error
message appears and the device class cannot be added.
Policy Name A unique name to identify the policy. Refer to the Note above.
New Policy Brings up a window to enter a new unique name. If this is accessed from an existing Policy, there is
the option to copy the attributes from the existing policy to the new Policy.
Description A way to provide more detail.
Policy Action This is available for Rapier and Switchblade device classes only, and lists those that have been
created.
Policy Rules
table
The Policy Rules associated with the Policy. There are five columns:
# - The number of the Policy Rule. Click on this to Edit, Delete, or move rules up/down.
Flow - The current policy flow, which can be changed by selecting the cell.
Priority - The Priority Action, which can be changed by selecting the cell.
Traffic - The Traffic Action, which can be changed by selecting the cell.
Target Support
Flows, Priority Actions, and Traffic Actions for single flow rules can be edited directly in the table,
Multi-flow rules can only be edited with the Rule Form
Analyze Rules Goes through the defined flows and actions and applies a logic tree for the device types selected so
that conflicts from a previous flow are highlighted.
Flow
Descriptions
Brings up the Policy Flow Form for the selected Flow. Note that this is the standard Policy Flow
Form, and so other Flows can be modified and new Flows can be created.
Priority
Actions
Brings up the Priority Action Form for the selected Action. Note that this is the standard Priority
Action Form, and so other Actions can be modified and new Actions can be created.
Traffic
Actions
Brings up the Traffic Action Form for the selected Action. Note that this is the standard Traffic
Action Form, and so other Actions can be modified and new Actions can be created.
Reset Undo any changes that have been made by rereading the Policy from the database.
Delete Delete the Policy and all its attributes. If the Policy has been applied to any port, an error message
appears and the policy cannot be deleted.
Save Policy Makes permanent all the changes that have been made. If the policy has already been deployed as
part of Profile Management, the associated ports in the Ports table will have their Profile names
marked with a “*” to indicate they are currently out-of-sync with the modified policy. To redeploy
these changes, redeploy the profile as described in 6.10.