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Chapter 19 Policy Rule
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19.3 Viewing and Editing Policy Configuration
To view a summary of the classifier configuration, scroll down to the summary table at the
bottom of the Policy screen. To change the settings of a rule, click a number in the Index field.
Figure 60 Policy: Summary Table
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Outgoing Select Send the packet to the mirror port to send the packet to the mirror port.
Select Send the packet to the egress port to send the packet to the egress port.
Select Send the matching frames (broadcast or DLF, multicast, marked for
dropping or to be sent to the CPU) to the egress port to send the broadcast,
multicast, DLF, marked-to-drop or CPU frames to the egress port.
Select Set the packet’s VLAN ID to set the VLAN ID of the packet with the value you
configure in the VLAN ID field.
Metering Select Enable to activate bandwidth limitation on the traffic flow(s) then set the
actions to be taken on out-of-profile packets.
Out-of-profile
action
Select the action(s) to be performed for out-of-profile traffic.
Select Drop the packet to discard the out-of-profile traffic.
Select Change the DSCP value to replace the DSCP field with the value specified in
the Out of profile DSCP field.
Select Set Out-Drop Precedence to mark out-of-profile traffic and drop it when
network is congested.
Select Do not drop the matching frame previously marked for dropping to
queue the frames that are marked to be dropped.
Add Click Add to inset the entry to the summary table below and save your changes to
the Switch’s run-time memory. The Switch loses these changes if it is turned off or
loses power, so use the Save link on the top navigation panel to save your changes
to the non-volatile memory when you are done configuring.
Cancel Click Cancel to reset the fields back to your previous configuration.
Clear Click Clear to set the above fields back to the factory defaults.
Table 44 Policy (continued)
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Table 45 Policy: Summary Table
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Index This field displays the policy index number. Click an index number to edit the policy.
Active This field displays Yes when policy is activated and No when is it deactivated.
Name This field displays the name you have assigned to this policy.
Classifier(s) This field displays the name(s) of the classifier to which this policy applies.
Delete Click Delete to remove the selected entry from the summary table.
Cancel Click Cancel to clear the Delete check boxes.