Specifying the QoS configuration file based on Policy Agent role
The Policy Agent can act as a policy server, a policy client, or neither. For more information on these different roles, see Policy types and infrastructure overview. Regardless of which option is used to configure QoS policies, the resulting configuration files need to be specified using different statements, depending on the role of the Policy Agent.
- If you are using the Policy Agent as a policy client that retrieves QoS policies from the policy server, specify the configuration files using the DynamicConfigPolicyLoad statement on the policy server.
- If you are using the Policy Agent as a policy client, but the policy client does not retrieve QoS policies from the policy server, specify the configuration files using the QOSConfig statement on the policy client, or configure the QoS policies directly in the image file specified on the TcpImage statement.
- If you are not using a policy client/policy server environment, specify the configuration files using the QOSConfig statement on the single Policy Agent, or configure the QoS policies directly in the image file specified on the TcpImage statement.
When specifying configuration files, keep in mind where the files should exist, based on the role of the Policy Agent.