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Create Capacity Distribution Profile

Perform the following steps to create a percentage based Capacity Distribution Profile:

  1. Go to Configuration > Layer 2 > Qos menu and click Capacity Distribution Profile option. Capacity Distribution Profiles page is displayed.
  2. Click (Create Capacity Distribution Profile) and select the type of profile to be created, Percentage Based or Shaper Based. Profile Attributes page of Create Capacity Dist. Profile is displayed.

    Create CDP- Profile Attributes page

  3. Select or enter the values as desired. For more information, refer the Profile Attributes table.
  4. Click Next. The Association page of Create Capacity Dist. Profile is displayed.
  5. Click Add to select the end points and UNI ports for CDP association.
  6. Enter a part or complete IP address/user label of the desired node in the text box provided and click (Search Node/Tunnel by IP Address or UserLabel). Nodes with matching search criteria entered are listed.
  7. Select a row having desired node (IP Address). Ports under that node will be listed as follows:

    Create CDP- Associating End points and Ports

  8. Select port(s) on which the CDP has to be applied and click Ok.

    User can also view the bandwidth utilization of a selected port by clicking View BW button. BW Utilization window is displayed with port details. This can be used to check whether the CDP can be applied to that port or not. If CDP cannot be applied for a particular CoS, that CoS row will be displayed in Red color.

  9. Repeat Step 5 to 8 to associate the CDP on UNI ports of other endpoint.

    Create CDP- Associated End points and Ports

  10. Click Finish. Creation command sent successfully message is displayed.
  11. lick OK. A new Capacity Distribution Profile is created and associated with the selected UNI ports.

Profile Attributes

Parameter

Description

Default Value

Acceptable Values

Type

Displays the type of Capacity Distribution Profile being created, Percentage based or Shaper based.

Percentage/Shaper

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Profile Name

Enter a name for the Capacity Distribution Profile being created. It should begin with an alphabet.

Default Profile

  • A to Z
  • a to z
  • 0 to 9
  • . (dot)
  • _ (underscore)
  • - (hyphen)
  • space

Level

Select the level from the options displayed in drop down list.

Port

Port

Management Traffic

Enter the value assigning for management traffic in Mbps.

NOTE: The Management B/W value entered must be up to three decimal places and >= 0.512 Mbps.

--

>0.512 Mbps

PIR Limiting

Select the check box and enter a numeric value.

--

--

Queue 7 and Queue 6

 

Select/associate an Egress Shaper Profile (created through Traffic Conditioning Profile) under Bandwidth Distribution for the Strict scheduler type.

 

Scheduler

Strict

Strict

Bandwidth Distribution

--

Default Shaper

Queue 5 to Queue 1

 

Select the Scheduler type for the queue and the desired bandwidth distribution accordingly.

Scheduler

WRR

  • WRR
  • Strict

Bandwidth Distribution

--

0% to 100% or Default Shaper

Queue 0

Displays the default Scheduler type and the assigned bandwidth.

The bandwidth assigned must always be a multiple of 5 for this queue.

Scheduler

WRR

WRR

Bandwidth Distribution

1%

0% to 100%

NOTE: Management traffic will be deducted from Queue 6's bandwidth.

The percentage bandwidth of WRR queues are on (Total Port Bandwidth - Sum of CIR's of all Strict Queues).

Summation of percentage bandwidth given to WRR queues should sum up to 100%.

Create CDP- Association parameters

Parameter

Description

Choose Nodes to select all ports

Search Node/Tunnel by IP Address or UserLabel button allows you to search the node/tunnel from the list. Enter the IP address or user label of the desired node/tunnel in the text box provided and click this button.

Load all nodes/Tunnels button reloads/relists all the nodes in network element list.

IP Address

Displays the IP address of the nodes/tunnels.

User Label

Displays the node/tunnel identifier.

EMS Name

Displays the name of the EMS in which the node/tunnel is present.

ci-si-pn

Displays the shelf index, the slot index and the port number.

Port Type

Displays the port type.

See also

Capacity Distribution Profile

Edit Capacity Distribution Profile

Delete Capacity Distribution Profile

Export the summary report

Group Capacity Distribution Profile