This section provides key considerations to review before deploying policies, including timeout recommendations and affinity mapping. Reviewing these factors helps ensure smooth policy provisioning and optimal visualization in your network.
Before provisioning policies, it's important to consider these options to ensure smooth deployment.
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In a scaled setup with high nodes, policies, or interfaces, you may encounter timeouts during policy deployment. To address this, configuring timeout options is recommended. See Configure TE timeout settings.
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For enhanced visualization, you can collect affinity information from your devices and map them in Crosswork Network Controller prior to provisioning an SR policy, Tree-SID, or RSVP-TE tunnel. See Affinity map configurations for sample configurations and Configure and visualize flexible algorithm SRLG exclusion for details on SRLG exclusion.