How To - Apply Bandwidth Restriction for

HTTP and HTTPS Services

Applicable Version: 10.00 onwards

Overview
Bandwidth is the amount of data passing through a media over a period of time and is measured in
terms of kilobytes per second (KBps) or kilobits per second (kbits) (1 Byte = 8 bits).
Quality of Service (QoS) is a method to guarantee a bandwidth relationship between individual
applications or protocols. It is a traffic-management approach that allows you to allocate network
resources for both mission-critical and normal data, based on the type of network traffic and the
priority you assign to that traffic.
The primary objective of QoS (Quality of Service) policy is to manage and distribute total bandwidth
on certain parameters like user, firewall, web category or application. QoS policy allocates and limits
the maximum bandwidth usage of the user and controls web and network traffic.
Policy can be defined/created for:

User - It restricts the bandwidth of a particular user.

Firewall Rule - It restricts the bandwidth for any entity to which the firewall rule is applied.
Web Category It restricts the bandwidth for the URL categorized under the Web category. To
implement restriction, policy is to be assigned through firewall rule.
Application It restricts the bandwidth for the application. To implement restriction, policy is to
be assigned through firewall rule.

Scenario
To apply QoS policy for all HTTP/HTTPS traffic such that it gets normal priority, with 64 KB as total
bandwidth.

Configuration
All configurations are to be done from Web Admin Console using Administrator profile.
To apply bandwidth restriction for HTTP/HTTPS traffic, follow the steps given below:

Step 1: Create a QoS Policy

Go to QoS Policy Policy and click Add to add a QoS policy with the following parameters:

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Parameter Description

Parameter

Value

Description

Name

HTTP_HTTPS

Name to identify the Policy.

Duplicate names are not allowed.

Policy Based On

Firewall Rule

Select any one option to specify

for which the policy is to be
created.

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Select any one option to specify

policy type.
Available Options:

Policy Type

Strict

Strict - In this type of policy, user

cannot exceed the defined
bandwidth limit.
Committed - In this type of policy,
user is allocated the guaranteed
amount of bandwidth and can
draw bandwidth up to the defined
burst-able limit, if available.
Select any one option to specify
implementation strategy of policy.

Implementation On

Total(Upload/Download) Available options:

-

Total(Upload + Download)
Individual(Upload/Download)

Priority

3 [Normal]

Set the bandwidth priority. Priority

can be set from 0 (highest) to 7
(lowest) depending on the traffic
required to be shaped.

Total Bandwidth

64

Set the guaranteed bandwidth (in

KBytes).
Select any one to specify the
bandwidth usage.
Available options:

Bandwidth Usage Type

Shared

Individual Allocated bandwidth

is for the particular user only.
Shared Allocated bandwidth is
shared among all the users who
have been assigned this policy

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Click OK to create HTTP/HTTPS QoS Policy.

Note:
Bandwidth is measured in Kbitspersecond but in the policy it is specified in terms of KBytes.

Step 2: Create a Service Group

Go to Objects Services Service Group and click Add to create a Service Group Webservice
consisting of HTTP and HTTPS services.

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Click OK to create the service group Webservice.

Step 3: Create a Firewall Rule and Apply the QoS policy.

To create a firewall rule and apply the QoS policy, follow the steps given below:

Go to Firewall Rule Rule

Click Add to create a LAN to WAN firewall rule.
Select Services as Webservice created in step 2.
Select the QoS Policy HTTP/HTTPS created in step1.

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Click OK to create the Firewall rule.

Above Configuration shows how to restrict bandwidth for HTTP and HTTPS traffic using QoS.

Document Version: 1.0 - 25/4/2012