Tree Structure Panel; Rule Editing And Viewing Panel - Extreme Networks Policy Manager User Manual

Tree Structure Panel

The Tree Structure Panel displays the ACL and CLEAR-Flow (or CF) rules that are included within the
selected policy. ACL rules are identified with a silver icon
icon .
Within this panel, the rules can be organized and displayed in three different ways. Use the three tabs
that are located below the panel to organize and display the rules according to the following:
Rules by class Displays the rules by their class.(Refer to "Class" in the next table.)
Rules by action Displays the rules by each action included in the rule.
• For ACL rules, the actions are: Permit, Deny, Count, CVID, Link Aggregation Hash,
• For CF rules the actions are: Permit, Deny, Qos, Mirror, Cli, Snmp, and Syslog.
Rules by reference Displays the rules showing the connection between an specific ACL rule and a CLEAR-
Flow rule. An ACL rule that is shown in blue text is one that does not have a
corresponding CLEAR-Flow reference or vice versa.
Information in this panel is displayed using a standard tree structure that allows subcomponents to be
hidden or shown by clicking the "key" icon.
NOTE
Right-click actions are not supported in the tree structure panel.

Rule Editing and Viewing Panel

The Rule Editing and Viewing Panel displays the following information for each rule:
# A number that shows the position of each rule in the policy. If the rules are reordered, the
position numbers for the rules change accordingly.
Rank The rank number is used to indicate the order in which the rules are stored in the policy file.
They are stored in descending order. The user can set the order by positioning the rules
manually or rely on the EPM's algorithm to establish an efficient order based on the
specificity of the rule.
The algorithm is available when creating a rule or later by using the menu command Policy >
Recalculate rule ranks. The menu command is used when creating new rules and for
recalculating rank when rules have been added or deleted from the policy.
Type The type of rule—ACL or CLEAR-Flow.
Class The class is a friendly name label that the user defines to customizes the rules according to
individual needs and categories. When a class is not named, the default is "Generic."
Name Name of the rule. Clicking on the plus sign expands each rule to display its raw rule text.
TCNT Trigger Count. TCNT is shown when the policy opened on a switch is activated by the Activity
Manager. It represents the number of times the ACL or CLEAR-Flow rule has been evaluated
and triggered or fired. The TCNT is updated only when a policy is opened on a switch and
when the Refresh button above the Rule Activity tab display on the Status Panel is pressed.
For policies opened locally, nothing is displayed under the TCNT column.
Status Status displays whether a policy that was saved with the EPM has been modified without the
EPM. When the policy has not been so modified, there is no entry in the column. When the
policy has been so modified the status column entry is "Rule modified externally."
Extreme Networks Policy Manager (EPM) 1.2 User Guide
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