Administration Tool

You can use the administration tool, batool, to configure Solaris Bandwidth Manager. It has two modes:

• In on-line mode, you can change the configuration currently being used by the kernel module. This is useful if an immediate temporary change is required because of a problem in your network. You also have the option of saving the current configuration, so that your changes are preserved. On-line mode allows you to observe the consequences of a particular configuration before you save it.

• In off-line mode, you can change a configuration without disturbing the current behavior of the kernel module. This is useful if you want to make changes in the configuration without disrupting users, and have them implemented the next time the product is restarted.

The administration tool communicates with the kernel module through the policy agent. batool sends configuration changes to the kernel module, and the kernel module sends statistics to batool.

See Chapter 5, Configuring Solaris Bandwidth Manager Using batool for a more detailed description of batool and how to use it. You can also configure Solaris Bandwidth Manager by editing the configuration files, or from a directory service.