Types of policy actions
Remark actions
Police actions
Other actions
Each policy entry can have a combination of policy actions from these multiple categories, which are executed in the order of configuration.
Remark actions
Priority Code Point (PCP): 3-bit field in layer 2 802.1Q header refers to a class of service and maps to a frame priority level.
IP precedence: 3-bit field in IP header which denotes the importance or priority of the datagram.
IP Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP): 6-bit field in IP header for packet classification.
Police actions
Traffic policing meters inbound on an interface based on permitted bandwidth limits. Based on the metering, each packet is marked one of the three colors: red, yellow, or green.
Committed information rate (CIR): Bandwidth limit for guaranteed traffic.
Committed burst size (CBS): Maximum packet size permitted for bursts of data that exceed the CIR.
Green: Packet conforms to the bandwidth limit and the burst size of guaranteed traffic (CIR or CBS).
Yellow: Traffic that exceeds the bandwidth limit (CIR) but not to the burst size for guaranteed traffic (CBS).
Red: Traffic that exceeds the bandwidth limit (CIR) and the burst size for guaranteed traffic (CBS).
The
show policy hitcounts
<POLICY-NAME>
command displays the number of accepted bytes/conformed bytes (green and yellow bytes) as 0 kbps because of the type of switch chipset.
Other actions
Other actions include Drop: Drop the packet, and Mirror: Mirror the packets to a specified mirroring session. For details, see the Aruba 84xx Switch Series ArubaOS-CX Monitoring Guide.