Chapter 21 Policy Rule

 

 

 

 

Table 57 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.

 

 

 

 

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 reset the fields back to your previous configuration.

 

 

 

 

Clear

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

 

 

 

21.3 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 104 Advanced Application > Policy Rule: Summary Table

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