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Automatic strategy

Automatic strategy

The automatic strategy is a legacy rule that lets you select an outgoing interface based on its performance ranking compared to the other SD-WAN interfaces. This is achieved by applying a performance SLA to rank the interfaces, and then selecting the desired rank.

In this example, you have three SD-WAN interfaces to three different ISPs that all go to the public internet. WAN1 is your highest quality link and should be reserved for business critical traffic. WAN2 and WAN3 are redundant backup links. You noticed one non-critical application is taking up a lot of bandwidth and want to prioritize it to the lowest quality link at any given time.

To configure automatic SD-WAN rules from the CLI:
config system sdwan
    config members
        edit 1
            set interface "wan1"
        next
        edit 2
            set interface "wan2"
        next
        edit 3
            set interface "wan3"
        next
    end
    config health-check
        edit "non-critical application"
            set server "noncritical.application.com"
            set members 1 2 3
            config sla
                edit 1
                    set latency-threshold 250
                    set jitter-threshold 50
                    set packletloss-threshold 3
                next
            end
        next
    end
    config service
        edit 1
            set name "non-critical application"
            set mode auto
            set quality-link 3
            set dst "non-critical-app-address-object"
            set health-check "non-critical application"
        next 
    end
end
Caution

The auto option is only available in the CLI. If you use the GUI to edit the rule, the auto option will be overwritten because you cannot select auto in the GUI.

Automatic strategy

The automatic strategy is a legacy rule that lets you select an outgoing interface based on its performance ranking compared to the other SD-WAN interfaces. This is achieved by applying a performance SLA to rank the interfaces, and then selecting the desired rank.

In this example, you have three SD-WAN interfaces to three different ISPs that all go to the public internet. WAN1 is your highest quality link and should be reserved for business critical traffic. WAN2 and WAN3 are redundant backup links. You noticed one non-critical application is taking up a lot of bandwidth and want to prioritize it to the lowest quality link at any given time.

To configure automatic SD-WAN rules from the CLI:
config system sdwan
    config members
        edit 1
            set interface "wan1"
        next
        edit 2
            set interface "wan2"
        next
        edit 3
            set interface "wan3"
        next
    end
    config health-check
        edit "non-critical application"
            set server "noncritical.application.com"
            set members 1 2 3
            config sla
                edit 1
                    set latency-threshold 250
                    set jitter-threshold 50
                    set packletloss-threshold 3
                next
            end
        next
    end
    config service
        edit 1
            set name "non-critical application"
            set mode auto
            set quality-link 3
            set dst "non-critical-app-address-object"
            set health-check "non-critical application"
        next 
    end
end
Caution

The auto option is only available in the CLI. If you use the GUI to edit the rule, the auto option will be overwritten because you cannot select auto in the GUI.