penalty

Assigns a numerical penalty to a service provider access link.

penalty <value>
 
no penalty
 

• value--integer in the range 0 through 1,000

Must be in link configuration mode (config-engine-link or config-engine-policy-link), which requires privileged-level access.

Use once per link configuration block.

Penalty value is 0.

The no form of the command resets value to the default.

The penalty value will be used when calculating the performance metric which CNA uses to evaluate a service provider link against other links for a given prefix.

Increasing a penalty decreases the likelihood that a service provider link will be asserted as best path.

If mode is config-engine-link, the penalty command applies to the link for all prefixes.

If mode is config-engine-link-policy, the penalty command applies to the link for those prefixes associated with the policy.

Values set globally, in config-engine-link mode, will apply to all links not explicitly set in config-engine-policy-link mode.

For more information about policies, see the decision-policy command and Chapter 6: Decision Policies and Application Models in the CNA Basic Monitoring Guide.