Time-of-day policies

Overview

The NFM-P supports time-of-day policies that define the times when policies, filters and schedulers are in effect. You can specify a time range and apply that range to QoS policies, ACL filters, and schedulers that are applied to aggregation schedulers and L2 and L3 access interfaces. For example, a time-of-day policy allows you to manage peer-to-peer traffic by limiting access during peak hours, such as evenings and weekends.

A time range policy consists of one or more schedules that specify a start and end day and time. You can configure ongoing time ranges that recur at a specified frequency.

The default time range policy is the NO-TIME-RANGE policy, which specifies that no time and day restrictions apply. There can be only one NO-TIME-RANGE entry in each type of time-of-day suite policy entry.

A time-of-day suite policy is a collection of ingress and egress policies, filter policies, and schedulers, to which time range policies have been assigned. You can apply time-of-day suite policies to aggregation schedulers and L2 and L3 access interfaces.

You can create a time-of-day suite policy by assigning time range policies to the following objects to apply time and day restrictions to their deployment and access:

• ACL MAC filters and filter entries

• ACL IP filters and filter entries

• ACL IPv6 filters and filter entries

• access ingress and egress QoS policies

• scheduler policies

Time-of-day policies are first created globally and then distributed to NEs.