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Monitoring Quality of Service 
Quality of Services (QoS) is the technique of prioritizing traffic flows and specifying preferences for 
forwarding packets with higher priority. It prioritizes traffic flow for different applications, users, or data 
flows and ensures certain level of performance to a data flow. This service plays an important part when 
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  Viewing the Service Policy and Policy Group Profiles
Figure 21-1 Policy Container
Step 3
Right-click the policy and choose Properties. The Service Policy Properties window is displayed.
Table 21-1 describes the fields that are displayed in the Service Policy Properties window.
Table 21-1 Service Policy Properties
Field Name Description
Name The name of the policy.
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Step 4Close the Service Policy Properties window.
Step 5In the content pane, click the Policy Group tab. A list of existing groups are displayed.
Step 6Right-click the policy group and choose Properties. 
Table 21-2 describes the fields in the Policy Group tab. Interface Name The name of the interface on which the service policy is applied.
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Step 7In the Policies tab, Right-click the policy from the list and choose Properties. The Service Policy 
Properties dialog box is displayed. See Table 21-1 for more details.
Figure 21-2 shows the association between the policy and interface.
Figure 21-2 Policy and Interface Association
Viewing the Class of Services Profile
To view the QoS profile:
Step 1Right-click on the...

  
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Step 2In the Inventory window, choose Logical Inventory>QoS>Class of Services. A list of existing 
policies are displayed in the content pane.
Step 3Right-click a service in the list and choose Properties. The Class of Services Properties dialog box is 
displayed. You can click on the tabs to view more details.
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Viewing Ingress and Egress Speed Details
Traffic shaping technique is used to match device and link speeds, thereby controlling packet loss, 
variable delay, and link saturation, which can cause jitter and delay. Traffic shaping must be applied to 
all outgoing traffic on a physical interface or on a VLAN. Traffic shaping is implemented when packets 
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NoteIngress policy, egress policy, ingress speed, and egress speed are supported in Cisco ASR 9000 devices 
but ingress policy and ingress speed are not supported in Cisco ASR 903 device and egress policy and 
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Managing IP Service Level Agreement (IP SLA) 
Configurations
In Prime Network, devices that are configured using Y.1731 (an ITU-T recommendation that provides 
mechanisms for service-level OAM functionality in Ethernet networks) are detected, scanned for 
configurations, and monitored. A device configured using Y.1731 has probes, which are root objects or 
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  Viewing Y.1731 Probe Properties
Step 2In the Inventory window, choose Logical Inventory>Probes>Y1731 Probes. A list of Y.1731 probes 
is displayed in the Y.1731 Probes content pane as shown in Figure 22-1.
Figure 22-1 Y.1731 Probes Content Pane
Table 22-1 describes the fields that are displayed in the content pane.
Table 22-1 Y.1731 Content Pane
Field Name Description
Profile Name...