Lab Scenario: Quality of Service

In this lab, you will:

 Configure QoS

Scenario

The network monitoring group reports a high number of sessions using video streaming
applications, which is impacting overall network throughput. You have been instructed to
allow, but throttle, video streams from the site ustream.tv. You must not completely block
the traffic and there should be as minimal impact to other traffic as possible.

Lab Solution: Quality of Service

Enable and Verify Video Applications

1. Select Policies > Security.
2. Confirm that there is security rule named egress-outside that allow the traffic from
inside zone to outside zone, for any application with application-default port.

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 3. From the desktop, open a web browser.
4. Verify that you can view videos on www.youtube.com
5. Close the browser.

Define a QoS Profile

6. Select Network > Network Profiles > QoS Profile.
7. Click Add and create a new profile:

Profile Name Enter Student-QoS-Profile

Classes Click Add

Select class1 in the Class column
Select real-time in the Priority column
Enter 1 in the Egress Max column

Click Add
Select class4 in the Class column
Select high in the Priority column

Click Add
Select class8 in the Class column
Select low in the Priority column
Enter .1 in the Egress Max column

8. Click OK to close the Profile Configuration window.

Define a QoS Policy

9. Select Policies > QoS.
10. Click Add and create a new policy:

General tab

Name Enter Student-QoS-Policy

Source tab

Source Zone Select Inside

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 Destination tab

Destination Zone Select Outside

Application tab

Applications Click Add

Select youtube

Other Settings tab

Class Select 8

11. Click OK to close the Policy Configuration window.

Assign the QoS Profile to an Interface

12. Select Network > QoS.
13. Click Add and create a QoS definition:

Physical Interface tab

Interface Name Select ethernet1/1

Clear Text Select Student-QoS-Profile

14. Click OK to close the QoS Configuration window.

15. Commit the changes.

Test the QoS Policy

16. Open a Web browser and connect to http://www.youtube.com
17. Open multiple tabs and play different videos in each of 5-10 tabs to generate
traffic.
18. Return to the WebUI and select Network > QoS.
19. Click Statistics next to ethernet1/1.
20. Expand the default-group and select class8 to review application traffic through
this interface. Verify that the bandwidth is shaped to stay below the 100 Kbps (.1
Mbps) you set in the profile.

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 21. Close the QoS Statistics window.
22. Close the browser to end the video sessions.

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