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Prerequisites
To override a policy on distributed port level, enable the port-level override option for this policy. See
Configure Overriding Networking Policies on Port Level.
Procedure
1 Navigate to a distributed switch and then navigate to a distributed port or an uplink port.
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To navigate to the distributed ports of the switch, click Networks > Distributed Port Groups,
double-click a distributed port group from the list, and click the Ports tab.
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To navigate to the uplink ports of an uplink port group, click Networks > Uplink Port Groups,
double-click an uplink port group from the list, and click the Ports tab.
2 Select a port from the list.
3 Click Edit distributed port settings.
4 If traffic filtering and marking is not enabled at the port level, click Override, and from the Status
drop-down menu, select Enabled.
5 Click New to create a new rule, or select a rule and click Edit to edit it.
You can change a rule inherited from the distributed port group or uplink port group. In this way, the
rule becomes unique within the scope of the port.
6 In the network traffic rule dialog box, select the Tag option from the Action drop-down menu.
7 Set the priority tag for the traffic within the scope of the rule.
Option Description
CoS value Mark the traffic matching the rule with a CoS priority tag in network Layer 2.
Select Update CoS tag and type a value from 0 to 7.
DSCP value Mark the traffic associated with the rule with a DSCP tag in network Layer 3.
Select Update DSCP value and type a value from 0 to 63.
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