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Optimizer Wizard

The Optimizer Wizard is a convenient way to populate the Optimizer with some default policies.

	Caution Running the Optimizer Wizard will delete any existing Optimizer Policies and Optimizer Configuration.

Caution

Running the Optimizer Wizard will delete any existing Optimizer Policies and Optimizer Configuration.

	Note When asked if you have asymmetric traffic, answer “YES” if the inbound and outbound direction of traffic are flowing through different links. Otherwise, select “NO”.

Note

When asked if you have asymmetric traffic, answer “YES” if the inbound and outbound direction of traffic are flowing through different links. Otherwise, select “NO”.

The first four questions are always the same:

Step 1: Do you want to start Optimization when this wizard is completed?
Selecting YES will start the Optimizer service automatically when you complete all the steps in the wizard.
Step 2: Do you want to configure optimization policies?
Selecting YES will cause Questions 2 and 3 to appear.
Step 3: Do you want to accelerate?
Selecting YES will create policies that accelerate WAN applications. You must have another Exinda appliance on the WAN for this to work.
Step 4: Do you want to apply QoS?
Selecting YES will apply traffic shaping.

Depending on your answers to Questions 2 and 3, the following scenarios are possible.

Scenario 1: Acceleration & QoS (Quality of Service, i.e. traffic shaping)

Step 3: Do you have asymmetric traffic? YES
Step 4: Do you want to enable Optimization? YES

This will enable both QoS (traffic shaping) and Application Acceleration. You will need to select the WAN topology that bests represents your deployment and also type the inbound and outbound bandwidths for this Exinda appliance.

Scenario 2: QoS Only

Step 3: Do you have asymmetric traffic? NO
Step 4: Do you want to enable Optimization? YES

This will enable QoS (traffic shaping) only. You have the choice of the type of default policy template to apply- one is better suited for Enterprise, the other is better suited for Service Providers. You will need to select the WAN topology that bests represents your deployment. And you will also need to type the inbound and outbound bandwidths for this Exinda appliance.

Scenario 3: Acceleration Only

Step 3: Do you asymmetric traffic? YES
Step 4: Do you want to enable Optimization? NO

This will enable Application Acceleration only.

The optimizer will populate the policy tree with circuits, virtual circuits, and policies. To learn how circuits, virtual circuits, and policies work together, see Policy Tree.

What policies will it generate?

The following tables shows the policies that will be available to some of the default application groups after running the Optimizer wizard.

Num	Name	Min BW%	Max BW%	Priority	Accelerate
1	Ignore	-	-	-	-
2	Accelerate	-	-	-	X
3	Choke 1%-3%	1	3	10	-
4	Limit Low 2%-10%	2	10	10	-
5	Limit Med 3%-50%	3	50	9	-
6	Limit High 4%-70%	4	70	8	-
7	Guarantee Low 5%-100%	5	100	7	-
8	Guarantee Med 8%-100%	8	100	5	-
9	Guarantee High 10%-100%	10	100	3	-
10	Guarantee Critical 15%-100%	15	100	1	-
11	Guarantee Low 5%-100% - Accelerate	5	100	6	X
12	Guarantee Med 8%-100% - Accelerate	8	100	4	X
13	Guarantee High 10%-100% - Accelerate	10	100	2	X