Chapter 19 Policy Rule

Table 47 Advanced Application > Policy Rule (continued)

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

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

Select the action(s) to be performed for out-of-profile traffic.

action

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 begin configuring this screen afresh.

 

 

Clear

Click Clear to set the above fields back to the factory defaults.

 

 

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 76 Advanced Application > Policy Rule: Summary Table

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 48 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.

 

 

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