From v1.4 we have added bandwidth profiles to further ease the management of large rulesets. Essentially a bandwidth profile is a standard set of bandwidth parameters that you would use often in your rules. A good example is an ISP or company that has classes of service or SLA’s such as Gold or Silver customers who would get a higher priority or a bigger burst rate or a CIR.

The main use of profiles is to set these standards up once as a profile and then on each rule refer to the profile rather than any specific bandwidth parameters. This then will allow you to just change the profile and it will be instantly applied to every rule that refers to that profile without you having to amend each rule separately.

Service Agreements often have a time component as well as a service level component. We allow this by simply setting up different profile ID’s with the same name but with different time parameters. We then automatically apply the different bandwidth parameters at the times specified.

For example, if you had a service level called Managers with 128K bandwidth allocation bursting to 256K during work hours but you wanted them to be able to get better response after work then you would set up a profile ID: Managers-Day named Managers timed from 8:00 to 17:00 weekdays only with 128K bursting to 256 and another ID: Managers-Night named Managers as well from 17:00 to 23:00.

Please note that the start time is what we use to fire off a change. We do not turn off a rule when the off time states even if there are gaps in your times.