Choose Policies→Residential Subscriber from the NFM-P main menu. The Residential Subscriber Policies form appears.

Click Create→Category Map Policy or choose an existing category map policy and click Properties. The Category Map Policy (Create|Edit) form opens.

Configure the required parameters.

Click on the Category tab to configure a category entry for the category map policy.

A maximum of 16 categories can be configured for each category map policy. If you must delete categories from the global policy in order to create space for new categories, you must also apply your changes to the policy after the deletions, and then distribute the policy as described in To release and distribute a policy. This will clear out the deleted categories from all local instances of the policy, leaving room for the new categories when the global policy is re-distributed.

1. Click Create or select an existing category entry and click Properties. The Category (Create|Edit) form opens.

2. Configure the required parameters.

   The Rating Group parameter is only configurable when the Use Rating Group check box is enabled.

   The PIR (kbps) parameter is configured to its maximum value when the MAX check box is enabled.

Click on the Queues tab.

Select the required ingress and egress queues to be defined in the category.

Click on the Policers tab.

Select the required ingress and egress policers to be defined in the category.

Click on the Credit Exhausting Service Levels tab and perform one of the following:

1. To define credit exhausting service levels for IP filter entries, go to Step 8.

2. To define credit exhausting service levels for IPv6 filter entries, go to Step 9.

Click on the IP Filter Entries tab.

1. Click Create or select an existing filter entry and click Properties. The Exhausted IP Filter (Create|Edit) form opens.

2. Configure the required parameters on the General and Filter Properties tabs.

   If you are configuring the filter entry for an HTTP redirect override function, set the Action parameter to HTTP Redirect. The Web Redirect tab appears.

3. Click on the Web Redirect tab. Enable the Allow Override parameter and specify a redirect URL.

4. Save your changes and close the form.

Click on the IPv6 Filter Entries tab.

1. Click Create or select an existing filter entry and click Properties. The Exhausted IPv6 Filter (Create|Edit) form opens.

2. Configure the required parameters on the General and Filter Properties tabs.

3. Save your changes and close the form.

Save your changes and close the Category form.

Click OK to save the policy and close the form, or click Apply to save the policy. See To release and distribute a policy to distribute the policy to NEs.

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