Overview

This article provides instructions to prioritize or throttle traffic to a low amount bandwidth.

Process

Follow the instructions as below:

1. Find or create an Application Object:

   • Navigate to Configuration > Objects > Applications to find an already existing Application Object. There are many Application Objects already created by default in the software.

   • If there is a type of traffic which needs to be throttled and it doesn't already exist, create a new Application Object.

2. Create a policy using the Application:

   1. Navigate to Configuration > Optimizer > Policies.

   2. Enter an appropriate name for the policy, e.g. Throttle Windows Updates.

   3. Select the Application(s) which need to be throttled, for this article, select Windows Updates as an example.

   4. Click the checkbox beside the Guaranteed Bandwidth, and set the burst priority, guaranteed bandwidth and burst bandwidth (can either be in Kbps or %).

   5. Click Create New Policy.
      
      
      
      

3. Add the policy to the Optimizer in an appropriate order position:

   1. Navigate to Configuration > Optimizer > Optimizer.

   2. Find the Virtual Circuit in which the traffic needs to be throttled.

   3. At the bottom of that Virtual Circuit, select the newly created policy from the drop-down box.

   4. To the left of the drop-down box, enter an Order Number; this should be a low number, so the policy goes to the top of the policy tree to ensure that the traffic hits the throttling policy before anything else.

   5. Click  Add To (virtual circuit).
      
      
      
      

   6. Click Restart Required and restart the Optimizer (not the device).

4. Verify that policy is working:

   1. Navigate to Monitor > Real Time.

   2. Select Show Policies checkbox.

   3. Generate some of the traffic and confirm that the correct policy is being used on the Real Time Monitor.