When you define a policy rule, you select from a list of available conditions and actions. Most of the conditions and actions have parameters (that is, they contain placeholders that may be replaced with specific values to allow you to customize them as needed).
For example, consider the following policy rule, which has one condition and two actions:
where the device will be handling greater than 100 upstream reserved flows apply profile Default Downstream Profile to request continue processing message
The first action, apply profile..., specifies a single parameter that is the name of a traffic profile to be applied to the request. The second action, continue processing message, instructs the MPE device to evaluate the remaining rules within the policy rules list (as opposed to immediately accepting or rejecting the request). The conditions and actions that are available for writing policies are discussed later in this section.