Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Policy Groups Configuration Guide, Releases 26.x and Later

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Advanced layout

Updated: March 10, 2026

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Describes advanced layout procedures, including configuration of SLA classes and QoS queues, to refine traffic management and ensure service quality for critical applications.

The advanced view provides further options to configure the traffic policy along with rules, service level agreement (SLA) class, and QoS Map.

Note

If you make changes to the application priority and SLA policies and switch to the advanced layout, the changes are retained. You cannot switch back to the default view.

Based on the values you configure in the workflow, a policy profile and the relevant policy objects are created in the back-end when the workflow is completed. Similarly, you can configure traffic filtering and rules by creating the match and action conditions of a policy. You can also configure the app route policy SLA class and create customized QoS queues.

The VPNs that you intend to use in policy group must be present in service or transport profile of configuration group.

You can identify the VPNs when you configure VPNs using configuration groups as VPNs are identified with VPN name. Where as, when you configure VPNs from CLI template, VPNs are identified by VPN IDs. Hence, you cannot read the VPNs in policy groups when they are configured in CLI.

Configure SLA class

Procedure

1.

From the Cisco SD-WAN Manager menu, choose Configuration > Policy Groups > Application Priority & SLA.

2.

Create or edit an existing application priority and SLA policy and select Advanced Mode.

3.

Create a traffic policy to add your first SLA class in traffic policy.

Select the base action as Accept. Click Add action and select SLA class. Refer to Action conditions.

Table 1. SLA Class Components

Parameter

Description

jitter milliseconds

The maximum jitter on the connection

Range: 1–1000 milliseconds

latency milliseconds

The maximum packet latency on the connection

Range: 1–1000 milliseconds

loss percentage

The maximum packet loss on the connection

Range: 1–100 percent

Starting from Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN Release 17.14.1a , the SLA class loss, latency, and jitter values are as follows:

  • Default values: Loss 5%, latency 500 ms, jitter 500 ms

  • Business relevant values: Loss 2%, latency 300 ms, jitter 60 ms

  • Business irrelevant values: Loss 10%, latency 600 ms, jitter 600 ms

  • Bulk data values: Loss 5%, latency 500 ms, jitter 500 ms
4.

Click Save match and actions.

Configure QoS policy

Procedure

1.

From the Cisco SD-WAN Manager menu, choose Configuration > Policy Groups > Application Priority & SLA.

2.

Create or edit an existing application priority and SLA policy and select Advanced Mode.

3.

From the left pane, click QoS queue, and then click Add QoS policy.

Table 2. QoS Queue

Field

Description

Queuing Model

Choose a value from the drop-down list for the queuing model.

Policy Name

Provide a name for the policy.

Interface

Specify a value for the interface.

Forwarding class

Choose a value for the forwarding class from the drop-down list.

Bandwidth %

Specify the maximum bandwidth. The range is 1–99.

Drops

Choose a value for the drop type from the following options:

  • Random Early

  • Tail

Scheduling type

Specify how to prioritize data packets for transmission to the destination by configuring the schedule type. The default is Weighted Round Robin (WRR).
4.

Click Save.