User's Manual

Chapter 10 Quality of Service (QoS)
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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 59 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
Rate
Specify the guaranteed rate at which packets are admitted to the network.
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
Class
Selected
Class
Select a QoS classifier to apply this QoS policer to traffic that matches the
QoS classifier.
Highlight a QoS classifier in the Available Class box and use the > button
to move it to the Selected Class box.
To remove a QoS classifier from the Selected Class box, select it and use
the < button.