Traffic shaping schedules

In a shaping policy, there are many matching criteria available for administrators to match a specific traffic and apply a traffic shaper or shaping group to the traffic, including using schedules. This feature gives shaping policy the ability to apply different shaping profiles at different times. Administrators can select a one-time schedule, recurring schedule, or schedule group.

Schedule is not a mandatory setting. If it is not set, then the current date and time are not used to match the traffic.

To configure a traffic shaping policy with a schedule in the GUI:

1. Go to Policy & Objects > Schedules and click Create New > Schedule.
2. Enter the following:

   Type	Recurring
   Name	work-hours
   Days	Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
   Start Time	07:00 AM
   Stop Time	08:00 PM

   

3. Click OK.
4. Go to Policy & Objects > Traffic Shaping, select the Traffic Shaping Policies tab, and click Create New.
5. In the If Traffic Matches section, enable Schedule and select a schedule option (work-hours).

   

6. Configure the other options in the Then section.
7. Click OK.

To configure a traffic shaping policy with a schedule in the CLI:

1. Configure the recurring schedule:

   config firewall schedule recurring
       edit "work-hours"
           set start 07:00
           set end 20:00
           set day monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday
       next
   end

2. Configure the traffic shaping policy:

   config firewall shaping-policy
       edit 1
           set name "demo"
           set service "ALL"
           set schedule "work-hours"
           set dstintf "port1"
           set traffic-shaper "high-priority"
           set traffic-shaper-reverse "high-priority"
           set srcaddr "all"
           set dstaddr "all"
       next
   end

To troubleshoot a traffic shaping policy in the CLI:

# diagnose firewall iprope list 100015
policy index=1 uuid_idx=0 action=accept
flag (0): 
schedule(work-hours)
shapers: orig=high-priority(2/0/134217728) reply=high-priority(2/0/134217728)
cos_fwd=0  cos_rev=0 
group=00100015 av=00000000 au=00000000 split=00000000
host=1 chk_client_info=0x0 app_list=0 ips_view=0
misc=0 dd_type=0 dd_mode=0
zone(1): 0 -> zone(1): 9 
source(1): 0.0.0.0-255.255.255.255, uuid_idx=28, 
dest(1): 0.0.0.0-255.255.255.255, uuid_idx=28, 
service(1): 
    [0:0x0:0/(0,65535)->(0,65535)] helper:auto