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Attach Policies to Interfaces

The last step is to attach policies to interfaces. A link between routers is composed of two interfaces so two policies can be attached per link. Click on the Modify > Elements > Links item menu to bring up the link listing.

Figure 1: Modify LinksNetwork management software interface showing a table of network links with details like name, node IDs, type, metric, delay, utilization, and selected link properties.

Click on the Modify button and select the Location tab to enter the IP addresses and interface names of the two end-points, if available.

Figure 2: Modify Link LocationModify 1 Link window in network tool, with fields for Node A and Node Z selection, IP addresses, interfaces, and configuration tabs.

Finally, click on the CoS Policy tab to attach policies to interfaces. In <Link>Figure 207 below, you can specify policies on the Node A and Node Z endpoints of a link. Note that only the CoS Policies that are applicable to the Node A router will be listed under the Node A Policy drop-down menu, and likewise for Node Z. Recall that in Create Policies for Classes , the user can specify a particular router or “[Any Router]” for each newly created policy.

Figure 3: CoS Policy for Link InterfacesSoftware interface window titled Modify 1 Link showing configuration tabs and policies for Node A and Node Z with buttons OK Cancel and Help.

Related Cisco commands:

At the interface level (config-if) the command to attach a policy to an interface is:

where input is to indicate the input interface, output for output interface, and policy-map is the name of the policy-map defined somewhere else in the config file.

Example: