Activating Control Policy; Control Policy Overview - Cisco ASR 9000 Series Configuration Manual

Activating Control Policy

A control policy enables the service provider to define certain actions that are performed during various
subscriber life-cycle events. This chapter provides information about activating control policy on the BNG
router. A control policy is defined using a policy-map. The policy-map contains a set of events - events
during which certain actions are performed. The condition for performing an action is defined in a class-map.
After a class-map is created, it is included in the policy-map. The policy-map is then activated on the router
interface for the policy to take effect. One of the actions that can be performed by the policy map is activating
dynamic template. The dynamic template is a container used to group a set of configuration items to be
applied to a group of subscribers. This chapter covers the following topics:
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Control Policy Overview

A control policy enables the service provider to define actions that must be performed during various subscriber
lifecycle events, such as creation of a session, connectivity loss, and so on. For the complete list of events,
see Control Policy Events, on page
Different actions can be executed for different subscribers based on various match criteria. Some actions that
can be specified in the control policy are:
• Authenticating or authorizing a subscriber by an external AAA server
• Starting subscriber accounting
• Activating specific configurations on the subscriber using dynamic templates
A control policy is deployed using policy-map and class-map. Each policy-map contains a list of events that
the service provider considers applicable to the subscriber lifecycle. The policy-map also defines the actions
that will be performed during these events. However, these actions are performed only when certain conditions
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Control Policy Overview, page 67
Creating Class-Map, page 68
Creating Policy-Map, page 70
Activating Policy-Map, page 74
Defining Dynamic Templates, page 75
Additional References, page 76
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