You can create and modify service policies according to user-defined business goals. Service policies are the main building blocks of an operational policy. An operational policy categorizes work and consists of a service policy with transaction class affiliations. The on demand router reads the operational policy to determine the proper work flow according to available server resources.
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To create, modify, or remove service policies and transaction classes, you must have administrator or configurator administrative privileges.
Indicates the name of a service policy, which must be unique among all service policies.
The name field is required and is a user defined field. The name field cannot contain the following characters: \ / , : ; " * ? < > | = + & % ' #. The name defined must be unique among service policies and cannot begin with a . or a space. A space does not generate an error, but leading and trailing spaces are automatically deleted. Create meaningful service policy names that are used consistently. For example, PLATINUM, GOLD, SILVER, and BRONZE are good service policy names.
The importance attribute can either be a blank field, which indicates a discretionary goal, or it can contain a specific value, such as highest, high, medium, low, or lowest. A specific value for this attribute indicates a time goal, which is further discussed in the goal attribute.
The goal can be one of the following types:
The description is an optional field that allows a further description of the service policy.