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Redcell presents a single pane of glass of the datacenter and provides our administrators the power and flexibility to manage it with a customizable permission-based graphical user interface (GUI).

Juan Barrera, Internet Systems Manager at Weslaco ISD

Service Policy Manager

Redcell Service Policy Manager simplifies Network Operators' jobs with a simplified graphical interface to configure, manage, and deploy service policies on your network infrastructure. Redcell Service Policy Manager eliminates complex policy deployment and provides a more reliable, repeatable method of implementing policies.

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Key Features:

Define rules and rule templates that process service or application content within managed environments
Select and initiate policies using templates configured by a more advanced user
See Policies from a centralized repository and GUI console
Version policies for a complete history and audit trail of all modifications
Preview and inspect Service Policies before deploying
Inspect differences between individual or versions of policies
Dynamically deploy Policies through Redcell's central scheduler, a Web Service API, or based upon events
Customizable user role and permission controls

Service Policies building blocks:

Rules	Conditions: defined filters that control how to identify network content Actions: define how to treat traffic that matches the condition filter at a Policy Enforcement Point
Policy Definition Points (PDPs)	Devices, Servers or other Entities where Policies reside after they are downloaded
Policy Enforcement Points (PEPs)	Entities configured with a one or more policy rules. These are responsible for enforcing the rule and performing the associated actions. A PEP may be the same entity as the PDP, or it could be a subcomponent of the PDP. For example: A router can be a PDP while an interface on the router would be the PEP.
PEP Examples:	Network Router Network Switch Port on a Router or Switch Logical Interface on a Router or Switch Virtual Router on a Router Firewall Appliance Context or Zone (security segment) on a Firewall Appliance Logical partition, such as an interface, within a Context or Zone on a Firewall Appliance Application Server Web Application Proxy or Load Balancer

Service Policy Rules Examples:

Access Control Lists (ACLs)	Packet filtering and apply configurations controlling the traffic forwarding for traffic traversing a PEP
Inspection Rules	Perform deep packet inspection -- with content rules specific to an application -- and control the forwarding or dropping of the specific application traffic
Class of Service (CoS)	Remark traffic based upon technology-specific classification schemes (IP Diff Serv, IEE 802.1p priority queues)
Quality of Service (QoS)	Configure traffic queuing and network traffic shaping or Bandwidth Limits
Creating a Policy	Policy Definition and Enforcement Points join with the Policy Template to define where a policy is deployed. For instance, a VPN service can provide its end points, meshed with a Service Policy Template already predefined by a more skilled Network Administrator. The combination results in one or more specific policies applicable for the VPN Service, based upon its appropriate service level.

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