Apply a Route Policy

Apply route policies to define route behavior.

About this task

Important

Changing route policies or prefix lists that affect OSPF accept or redistribute is a process-oriented operation that can affect system performance and network reachability while you perform the procedures. Therefore, if you want to change a prefix list or a routing protocol, you configure all route policies and prefix lists before enabling the protocols.

Procedure

In the navigation pane, expand:Configuration > IP.
Select Policy
Select the Applying Policy tab.
Select the type of policy to apply.
Select Apply.

Applying Policy field descriptions

Use the data in the following table to use the Applying Policy tab.


Name	Description
RoutePolicyApply	Specifies that configuration changes in the policy take effect in an OSPF route policy context. This prevents the system from attempting to apply the changes one by one after each configuration change. The default is enabled.
RedistributeApply	Specifies that configuration changes in the policy take effectfor an OSPF Redistribute context. This prevents the system from attemptingto apply the changes one-by-one after each configuration change. The default is enabled.
OspfInFilterApply	Specifies that configuration changes in a route policy or a prefix list take effect in an OSPF Accept context. This prevents the system from attempting to apply the changes one by one after each configuration change. The default is enabled. Note: This field does not appear on all hardware platforms. If you do not see this command in EDM, the feature is not supported on your hardware.