Chapter 10 Quality of Service (QoS)

10.6.1 Add/Edit a QoS Policer

Click Add new Officer in the Policer Setup screen or the Edit icon next to a policer to show the following screen.

Figure 58 Policer Setup: Add/Edit

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 36 Policer Setup: Add/Edit

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Active

Select the check box to activate this policer.

 

 

Name

Enter the descriptive name of this policer.

 

 

Meter Type

This shows the traffic metering algorithm used in this policer.

 

The Simple Token Bucket algorithm uses tokens in a bucket to control

 

when traffic can be transmitted. Each token represents one byte. The

 

algorithm allows bursts of up to b bytes which is also the bucket size.

 

 

Maximum

Specify the guaranteed rate at which packets are admitted to the network.

Rate

This is to specify how many bytes of tokens are added to a bucket every

 

 

second.

 

 

Burst Size

Specify the guaranteed amount of bytes that are admitted at the

 

committed rate.

 

This is the maximum size of the (first) token bucket in a traffic metering

 

algorithm.

 

 

Available

Select a QoS classifier to apply this QoS policer to traffic that matches the

Class

QoS classifier.

Selected

Highlight a QoS classifier in the Available Class box and use the > button

Class

to move it to the Selected Class box.

 

To remove a QoS classifier from the Selected Class box, select it and use

 

the < button.

 

 

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