Key packages and classes

Overview

The XML API supports the creation and modification of policies using the classes described in this section. The policy package contains classes to define and manage policies. Each policy is an instance of the policy.PolicyDefinition class. Policy items such as a queue of an access ingress policy, or an entry of an ACL filter are instances of the policy.PolicyItemDefinition. The specific policy is a child object of the policy.Manager. The types of policies in this section inherit from classes in this package.

The global policy represents a policy at the network level and the local policy represents a policy at the network element level. They are both children of the policy.Manager for the specific policy type.

Network level policy managers are named with the policyTypeManaged; for example, Access Egress. Network element level policy managers are named with network:siteId:policyTypeManaged; for example, network:10.1.1.88:Access Egress.

Note: policyTypeManaged is the displayed name of policy.PolicyType type.

Figure 18-1: policy.Manager class

The information in the policy.Manager class and policy.PolicyType provides an OSS developer with an introduction to classes, object hierarchy, and properties of policies to be configured. Other packages that may be relevant for a policy configuration OSS developer are the qos and acl packages. The packages define enumerations associated with properties in QoS-related policies such as access ingress, and access control lists such as ACL IP filters. The qos and acl packages do not have associated classes or methods.

The following tables list some of the policies and packages.

Table 18-1: Service management type policies

Policy	Package
QoS
Access Egress	aengr
Access Ingress	aingr
Network	niegr
Network Queue	nqueue
Slope	slope
HSMDA Slope	slope
Shared Queue	squeue
Scheduler	vs
Port Scheduler	portscheduler
HSMDA Port Scheduler	portscheduler
Policer Control	policing
Queue Group	qgroup
QoS Profile	qosprofile
7705 Fabric Profile	fabricqos
OmniSwitch QoS	aosqos
7210 SAS QoS policies	sasqos
9500 QoS	mpr
Filter
ACL IP Filer	aclfilter
ACL MAC Filter
ACL IPv6 Filter
DHCP Filter

Table 18-2: Routing management type policies

Policy	Package
Multicast
Egress Multicast Groups	multicast
Multicast Package
Multicast CAC
Ingress Multicast Bandwidth
Ingress Multicast Info
Ingress Multicast Reporting Destination
7210 Multipoint Bandwidth Management	sasqos
VRRP
VRRP	vrrp
Routing
AS Path	rp
Community
Damping
Prefix List
Statement
MPLS
MPLS Admin Group	mpls
Shared Risk Link Group
LSP Template MVPN
ISA
IPSec Static Security Association	ipsec
IPSec Transform
IPSec Tunnel Template
IKE
NAT	nat

Table 18-3: Network management type policies

Policy	Package
Statistics
Accounting	multicast
File	file
RMON
RMON	rmon
Time of Day
Time Range	tod
Time of Day Suite	todsuite
Security
CPM Filter	sitesec
DoS Protection
User Profile
Password Policy
RADIUS Authentication
TACACS+ Authentication

Note: The terms distinguishedName, instanceName, and objectFullName are used synonymously in the XML API for the unique identifier of the object instance. See objectFullName element in Schema Reference for more information about the object full name.

To understand the notation used for creating the distinguishedName, or how to fill in a pointer property, see the Help link in the XML API Reference. For example, if you see the notation for a distinguishedName is Access Egress:${*id}:forwarding-class-${forwardingClass}, it means that to form the distinguishedName, the part in italics is the property value. For this distinguishedName, it could be Access:Egress:100:forwarding-class-be, where the 100 is the ${*id} and the be is the ${forwardingClass}. The value for a pointer property is the object full name.