Cisco Systems NAM, 5 manual Creating a Dscp Group, Choose Setup Network Dscp Groups

Chapter 2 Setting Up The NAM Traffic Analyzer

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These topics help you set up and manage the DSCP groups:

•Creating a DSCP Group, page 2-64

•Editing a DSCP Group, page 2-66

•Deleting a DSCP Group, page 2-66

Creating a DSCP Group

To create a DSCP Group:

Step 1 Choose Setup > Network > DSCP Groups.

The DSCP Groups table displays.

Step 2 Click the Create button.

The DSCP Group Configuration window displays.

Step 3 Fill in the fields as described in Table 2-31, DSCP Group Setup Dialog Box.

Table 2-31	DSCP Group Setup Dialog Box
Field		Description	Usage Notes
Name		Name of the profile.	Enter the name of the profile you are creating. The maximum is 64
			characters.
Label Format		DSCP	DSCP numbers from 0 to 63. After selecting the DSCP radio button,
			you can freely choose any of the 64 possible values and assign them
			to Groups.
		AF / EF / CS	Assured Forwarding (AF) guarantees a certain amount of bandwidth
			to an AF class and allows access to extra bandwidth,
			Expedited Forwarding (EF) is used for traffic that is very sensitive
			to delay, loss and jitter, such as voice or video traffic.
			Class Selector (CS) the last 3 bits of the 6-bit DSCP field, so these
			correspond to DSCP 0 through DSCP 7.
		Bit Field	Six bits in the IP header of a packet. See Table 2-32.

Table 2-32, DSCP Group Label Formats shows the available formats and associated values.

	Table 2-32	DSCP Group Label Formats
	DSCP Format (DSCP 0
	through DSCP 63)		AF/EF/CS Format	Bit Field Format
	DSCP 0		-	000000
	DSCP 8		CS1	001000
	DSCP 10		AF11	001010
	DSCP 12		AF12	001100
	DSCP 14		AF13	001110
	DSCP 16		CS2	010000
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