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Automatic Management

The Automatic Management is an advanced feature of the SunGate which allows for advanced control of policy management in an automated fashion. The Automatic Management allows you to check for longer term trends of usage and to change policies temporarily for a specific time period or until the conditions change. The learning feature enables it to only manage traffic that exists, which may be desireable for very large networks where it is impractical to create a ruleset for every user. For large networks, where the default policy for all users is not to control at all, its extremely useful for finding those with unusual levels of activity and applying temporary controls without having to manually monitor the network.

What it Can Do

The Automatic Management can implement more complex, longer term policies than can be achieved with the standard bandwidth management strategies.

For example:
If any IP address has averaged more than 256Kb/s for the last 60 minutes, set the profile on that IP to reduce usage for 15 minutes.
Or
If any IP address has averaged more than 800Kb/s for the last 3 hours, block the address for 20 minutes.

Additionally, cascaded policies can create a step-down effect
1. If any IP address has averaged more then 512Kbs for 30 minutes, knock them down to a 256kb/s policy for 15 minutes
2. If any IP address has averaged more than 250kb/s for 60 minutes, knock them down to 56kb/s for 15 minutes
3. If any IP address has averaged more than 52kb/s for 30 minutes, set to 56kb/s for 30 minutes.

Automatic learning

The Automatic Management has the ability to "learn" what addresses are in use on your network, which makes it useful when there are a very large number of customers on the network. Its most useful when "most" of your users are subject to the same, general policies. its not practical to have 10,000 static rules. Automatic learning allows you to limit your rulesets and only monitor active addresses.