When traffic engineering is enabled on the router, you can configure an IS-IS metric that is used exclusively for traffic engineering. The traffic engineering metric is used for information injected into the Traffic Engineering Database (TED). Its value does not affect normal IS-IS forwarding.
To modify the default value, include the te-metric statement:
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te-metric metric;
For a list of hierarchy levels at which you can include this statement, see the statement summary section for this statement.