Contents

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Preface

• Audience
• Related Documents
• Documentation Accessibility

1 Applying a QoS or Access Control Policy

• Overview
  • Standard PHB and Modular QoS CLI PHB Groups
• Policy Roles
  • Using Roles in Policy Elements
• Policy Inheritance
• Before Implementing a QoS or Access Control Policy
  • Set Up Basic Data
  • Check Capabilities
  • Set Up and Assign Policy Roles
  • Assign Traffic to Appropriate Classes of Service
  • Consider Where to Apply Policy Elements
  • Organizing QoS Objects Into User-defined Folders
  • Marking on Cisco Routers
  • QoS on Juniper M-series Routers

2 Setting Up Basic Policy Data

• Importing QoS-related Policy Files
  • The default.policy File Summary
    • The default.dscp.policy File
  • The advanced.policy File Summary
  • Additional .policy files
  • Loading Policy Configuration Files
• Class of Service Data
  • DiffServ Codepoints
  • IP Precedence
  • MPLS Experimental Bits
  • MPLS Topmost Experimental Bits
  • Frame Relay Discard Eligible Bit
  • ATM Cell Loss Priority Bit
  • Discard-class
  • Trust Type
  • The advanced.policy File Details
  • Creating a New Packet Marking
  • Migrating from IP Precedence to DSCP
  • Flexible IP Precedence and DSCP Support on the Network Processor
    • Defining Packet Markings in Cisco IOS Cartridge Configuration Options
  • Classes of Service
• Policy Components
  • Setting Up Traffic Types
  • Setting Up a Compound Traffic Type
  • Setting Up a Traffic Type Group
  • Setting Up a Classification
    • Using Classifications with Policy Rules
    • Using Classifications with MQC PHB Groups
    • Aggregation
    • Strict Aggregation
  • Setting Up a Date and Time Template
  • Setting Up IP Protocols
• Setting Up Accounts

3 Defining QoS and Access Control

• Introduction
• Using Roles in Rules
• Rule Support on an Interface
• Using Roles in Rules
• Classification Rules
  • Setting Up a Classification Rule
• Policing Rules
• Access Rules
• Copying Classification, Policing and Access Rules
• Using the Deny Classification in Cisco ACLs
  • User Interface
• Updating Multiple Rules
• Copying Rules
• Implementing Rules
• Checking Implemented Rules
  • Viewing Implemented Rules
    • Viewing System Statistics and Statistic Summary Information
• Managing Rules
  • Changing the Sequence Order of Rules
  • How Rule Conflicts are Avoided
  • Disabling Rules

4 Defining Standard Per Hop Behavior Groups

• Introduction
• Supported Traffic Shaping/Queuing Mechanisms
  • Class of Service Mechanisms
  • VC Traffic Shaping Mechanisms
  • Vendor Support
  • Class of Service Mechanism Combinations
• Before Setting Up a Standard PHB Group
  • Selecting the Queuing or Traffic Shaping Mechanisms
  • Deciding Where to Apply the Standard PHB Groups
  • Using Roles in PHB Groups
    • Importing Policy Files
• Setting Up a Standard PHB Group
  • Setup and Application of PHB and MQC PHB Groups as Separate Operations
  • Setup and Application of PHB and MQC PHB Groups as a Combined Single Operation
    • Setting Up a Standard PHB Group
  • Setting up Weighted Round Robin
  • Setting up Priority Queuing
  • Setting Up Rate Limiting
  • Setting Up Weighted Random Early Detection
  • Setting Up Weighted Fair Queuing
  • Setting Up ATM Traffic Shaping
  • Setting Up Frame Relay Traffic Shaping
    • Distributed Traffic Shaping

5 Extending IP Service Activator with Configuration Policies

• About Configuration Policies
• Obtaining and Creating Configuration Policies
• Getting More Information About Configuration Policies
  • Configuration Policy Groupings
  • Viewing and Customizing the Organization of Configuration Policies
• Applying Configuration Policies
  • Disabling Applied Configuration Policies
  • Applying Configuration Policies at the Device Level
  • General Device-Level Configuration Policies
    • User Authentication Configuration Policy
    • User Data Configuration Policy
  • Using Collection-Based Configuration Policies
• QoS and Attachment Configuration Policies
  • Vendor Cartridge Support for Various QoS Configuration Policies
  • Overview of Attachment QoS Policies
  • Overview of Vendor-Specific QoS Policies
    • Alcatel QoS Configuration Policies
    • Other QoS Configuration Policies
  • Installation of QoS and Attachment Configuration Policies
  • Role-based Inheritance
• Attachment QoS Configuration Policies
  • qosCosAttachment
• Vendor-Specific QoS Configuration Policies
  • Alcatel QoS Configuration Policies
    • alcatelSamQosPool
    • alcatelSamQosOverridePolicy
    • alcatelSamAggregatedScheduler
    • alcatelSamSchedulerOverridePolicy
  • Cisco QoS Configuration Policies
    • CatOSPolicingRule
    • ciscoQosPfcTxPortQueues
  • Other QoS Configuration Policies
    • rate-limit

6 Implementing and Managing Per Hop Behavior Groups

• Implementing a PHB Group
  • Associating a PHB Group with a Policy Target
  • Committing the Transaction
• Checking Implemented PHB Groups
  • Abstract and Concrete PHB Groups
  • PHB Group Status
  • Viewing Implemented PHB Groups
    • Information Displayed About PHB Groups
• Changing the Evaluation Order of PHB Groups

7 Defining MQC PHB Groups

• Introduction
• Supported Traffic Management Mechanisms
• Before Setting Up an MQC PHB Group
  • Deciding Which QoS Actions to Select
  • Defining Classes of Service
  • Check Capabilities
  • Deciding Where to Apply MQC PHB Groups
  • Using Roles in MQC PHB Groups
• Setting Up an MQC PHB Group
  • Specifying Evaluation Order
  • Setting Up Low Latency Queuing
    • Multi-Level Priority Queuing
  • Setting Up Class-Based Weighted Fair Queuing
  • Setting Up Class-Based Policing
    • Setting Up a Policing Action
    • Applying a Policing Action
  • Setting Up Class-Based Shaping
  • Setting Up Class-Based Marking
  • Setting Up Congestion Avoidance
  • Nesting MQC PHB Groups
  • RTP Header Compression

8 Example Policy Setups

• Using Roles to Apply Policy
  • Requirements
  • Solution
• Applying Policy to a VC Endpoint
  • Using Classifications in Rules