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Using the Policy System
This chapter describes how to use the ExtremeWare Enterprise Manager Policy System
for:
• Creating, modifying, and deleting network Quality of Service (QoS) policies
• Defining and modifying QoS treatments
• Defining users and user groups as policy objects
• Defining end stations and end station groups as policy objects
• Configuring network devices with the defined network policies
• Importing users, user groups, and end stations from Windows NT Domain
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Policy-based management is used to protect and guarantee delivery of mission-critical
traffic.
A network policy is a set of high-level rules for controlling the priority of, and amount
of bandwidth available to, various types of network traffic. Through ExtremeWare
Enterprise Manager, policies can be defined in terms of individual users and desktop
systems, not just by IP or MAC addresses, ports, or VLANs.
The ExtremeWare Enterprise Manager Policy System lets you work with high-level
policy objects (users, desktop systems, groups of users or systems, applications, and
groups of devices and ports) in defining policies. The policy system translates those
policy objects into the specific information needed for QoS configuration of network
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