Assigning Actions to a Traffic Class
For purposes of managing, controlling, and manipulating the traffic classes, actions should
be assigned to these traffic classes. A security administrator might want to rate-limit only the
HTTP traffic that crosses the network, and use deep inspection on all TCP traffic entering
the network. This can be done by assigning one or more traffic classes, through class maps,
to policy maps. Policy maps assign one or more actions to one or more class maps assigned
to it. Each action is called a domain, and the sets are known as feature domains. Similar to
creating a class map, three steps are required to create a policy map:
Step 1 Create a policy map.
Step 2 Assign traffic classes to the policy map.
Step 3 Assign policies for each class.