Cisco ASA 5505 User Manual

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Cisco ASA 5500 Series Configuration Guide using the CLI

Chapter 32 Configuring a Service Policy Using the Modular Policy Framework

Task Flows for Configuring Service Policies

See the

“Defining Actions (Layer 3/4 Policy Map)” section on page 32-15

and the

“Applying Actions to

an Interface (Service Policy)” section on page 32-17

Task Flow for Configuring Hierarchical Policy Maps for QoS Traffic Shaping

If you enable QoS traffic shaping for a class map, then you can optionally enable priority queueing for
a subset of shaped traffic. To do so, you need to create a policy map for the priority queueing, and then
within the traffic shaping policy map, you can call the priority class map. Only the traffic shaping class
map is applied to an interface.

See

Chapter 54, “Information About QoS,”

for more information about this feature.

Hierarchical policy maps are only supported for traffic shaping and priority queueing.

To implement a hierarchical policy map, perform the following steps:

Step 1

Identify the prioritized traffic according to the

“Identifying Traffic (Layer 3/4 Class Maps)” section on

page 32-12

You can create multiple class maps to be used in the hierarchical policy map.

Step 2

Create a policy map according to the