1. Features Guide
  2. Release 2.4 Features
  3. Provisioning Groups

Provisioning Groups

A Provisioning Group contains a collection of WAN Link bandwidth usages for any given WAN Link. This allows the user to allocate and distribute the shares of bandwidth among a smaller set of services at a high level before drilling down to the individual services for finetuning. They also provide a boundary for the automatic redistribution of bandwidth within the child Services of the Provisioning Group.

In the Provisioning Groups table, shares are used to distribute the WAN Ingress/Egress eligible bandwidth, which is the Permitted Rate minus the total Min reserved bandwidth of all Services on the WAN Link. All Services are initially assigned to a “Default” Group that is allocated all the eligible bandwidth. The user can create additional Groups and allocate bandwidth to its members by giving that Group a number of Fair Shares. The resulting total bandwidth for all Services in the Group is then shown in the Fair (kbps) column. Please see Figure 20 for a view of the Provisioning Groups section.

Image showing the provisioning groups screen.

  • Provide a Group name
  • Provide the number of WAN Ingress and WAN Egress Fair Shares required for the new group
  • Reassign Services to the new Group using the Group column in the Services table

Provisioning Groups are available to simplify the provisioning process and are not required if they are not needed.