Use Suggested Policies

PacketWise includes a set of suggested policies for many supported protocols and services. These policies were developed for a typical enterprise branch office and may or may not be suitable to your situation. You can apply a suggested policy to a traffic class, whether it was manually created or automatically created by the traffic discovery process.

Note: All suggested rate policies set the guaranteed rate to zero with bursting enabled. If you have a specific minimum rate requirement for an application, such as Voice over IP, you will need to modify the suggested policy.

Note: To perform this task from PolicyCenter, you must first select a unit or draft configuration in the Configurations window. Then select the Class Tree tab from the right pane of this window, and proceed to step 2 of the procedure below.

To create a policy using PacketWise's suggested settings:

1. Click the manage tab on the navigation bar. The Traffic Class window appears.

2. Select a class in the tree in the left window pane.

3. Click policy in the Traffic Class window and select add.

4. Click suggest policy in the New Policy window.  show screen

A pop-up window appears, notifying you whether a default policy was found for this service type.  show screen

5. Click OK in the pop-up window.

6. To fine-tune the policy, overwrite the displayed values or select a new policy type.

7. To create the policy, click add policy in the New Policy window.

See also:

Protect Critical Application Performance