Policies Dashboard

 

Distribution policies allow you to divide traffic among the CDNs configured for your Conviva account based on relative total shares that you define. With a distribution policy you specify the percentage of traffic that should be directed to each CDN and the quality considerations that might affect that allocation.

For more information about distribution policies, go to the Policy Tracking page and click one of the policy links in the All Policies widget. See Policy Drill-Down for more information about individual policies.

Activating Distribution Policies

Selected Administrators can activate single or multiple Precision distribution policies immediately or at a scheduled time.

Activating Single or Multiple Policies Using Policy Scheduler

To activate single or multiple policies:

1. In the Policies dashboard, click Activate Policy. The Activate Policy (New) dialog box appears.

   

2. From the Search and Select Policies drop-down menu, select one or more policies that you want to activate.

3. To activate the policies immediately, click Activate Now. To activate them at a specific date and time, click Schedule and set the date and time.

   Note:  You can schedule policies to be activated from 15 minutes up to 90 days in the future.

   Note: Precision supports the activation of up to 15 policies (1 primary policy and 14 backup policies). For example, during live events, you could activate up to 15 policies immediately or at a scheduled time.

4. In the Add email addresses separated by commas text field, enter one or more email addresses. When the schedule is changed, a notification is sent to these email addresses.

5. Click Save.

Viewing Scheduled Distribution Policies

Use the View All Schedules button to view all the scheduled distribution policies for your c3.account.

Collapsed View

When the expanded view toggle is switched off, you can see all the polices in the collapsed view.

Hover the policy to see the policy filter rule.

Click the expand button next to the policy name to see the expanded view of the selected policy.

The expanded view of the selected policy is displayed.

Expanded View

Click the toggle button to see the policies in the expanded view. This is the default view.

Schedules

The Schedules page displays the list of scheduled policies, triggering date and time, notes, and schedule status.

Column Name	Description
Policies	The names of all the scheduled policies.
Trigger At	The date and time of activation.
Notes	The notes that were added at the time of policy scheduling.
Status	The status of the policy schedule. There are several schedule statuses. When policies are scheduled to be activated, the initial status is Pending. When Precision tries to activate the scheduled policies, the status changes to Success, Partial, or Error based on the outcome. Pending - The scheduled policies are waiting to be activated at a scheduled date and time. Success - The scheduled policies were activated successfully at the scheduled date and time. Partial - The scheduled policies were partially activated at the scheduled date and time. For example, if two policies were scheduled to be activated and if one of those policies was successfully activated, and the other failed due to an unexpected error, then the status changes to Partial. Error - All the policies in a schedule were not activated due to an unexpected error. An automatic email is sent to Conviva Support to help diagnosis any policy activation issues.
Actions	Use the and icons to edit and delete policy schedules. For more information, see Editing Distribution Policies and Deleting Distribution Policies.

Reorder Policies and Schedules

Note:  Only the Admins have the permission to reorder the policies

You can reorder the policies based on the priorities.

To reorder the policies,

• Click Re-order Policies

  

• Drag and Drop the policies to reorder as required.

  

  The reordering can also be done in collapsed view as well.

  

  Once done, the earlier positions are displayed adjacent to the policy name.

• Click Save Changes to see Reorder Policy (New) popup screen.

  

• Click Save to save the policy reorder changes.

Schedule the reordered policies

You can reorder the policy schedules based on the priorities.

After reordering the policies,

• Click Save Changes to see the Reorder Policy (New) popup screen.

  

• Click Schedule, and select the date and time to schedule the reordering of the policy.

  • Provide the email Ids and notes (if any) for individuals who need to be notified after the

• Click Save, to create the schedule.

 

You can see the sechduled policiles in the Schedules page under the Policy Reorder tab.

• Click View All Schedules to see the schedules page.

• Click Policy Reorder to see the reordered policy schedule details.

  

• Click the Edit icon in the Actions column of a policy to see the Reorder Policy (Edit) page and change the schedule details.

  

• You can change the schedule date and time, add or remove the email ids, and edit the note based on the requirement. After editing, click Update to save the changes.

  

Use the icon to view all the scheduled policies and their schedule status in a calendar view.

Here the schedules displayed in,

• Green= schedule was successful

• Red= schedule had an error

• Blue = Upcoming schedule

 

Editing Distribution Policies

Selected Administrators can edit the Precision Distribution policies – specifically the resource share rows under "Resource Sharing and Sequencing". Use the kebab icon to edit a policy.

Each row represents one or more resources (one primary and others secondary) that Precision API recommends as a CDN resource on each API call. The sum of the Share percentages of each row must be 100%.

For a given row, an Administrator can edit both the list of resources as well as the share percentage. After all edits are completed, the Administrator should save the changes. The changes will take effect immediately.

Note: An Administrator cannot create new Distribution Policies nor configure new resources.

Editing Scheduled Policies

A scheduled policy can be edited after it is scheduled.

To edit a scheduled policy:

1. In the Policies dashboard, click View All Schedules. The Schedules page appears.

2. For the policy that you want to edit the schedule, click the icon. The Activate Policy (Edit) dialog box appears.

   

3. Make the changes and click Update.

 

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