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Deploying
IBM® Sametime® consists of a variety of servers and clients, and can be deployed to suit many different environments. The deployment instructions are organized by feature set, beginning with the minimum components that are necessary to support instant messaging, and then expanding the deployment to include features such as audio and video support, and conferencing.
Deploying audio and video
Audio and video features are provided primarily by the IBM® Sametime® Media Manager, which supports point-to-point and multipoint calls. The Sametime Media Manager uses standard audio and video codecs so that it works with products from other audio and video vendors.
Installing Sametime® Bandwidth Manager
The IBM® Sametime® Bandwidth Manager is an optional component that lets you configure bandwidth usage settings for your Sametime deployment.
Configuring Sametime® Bandwidth Manager
Configure the bandwidth management modules to control bandwidth usage within a network managed by IBM® Sametime® Bandwidth Manager, defining sites, links between them, call rates that control bandwidth utilization, and policies that apply the rates to various classes of user.
Configuring call rate policies
In an IBM® Sametime® Bandwidth Manager deployment, you can define call rates to be used during periods of normal utilization, and call rates to be used during periods of peak utilization. Combine these call rates with different classes of users and different locations to create call rate policies.
Ordering call rate policies
In a network managed by IBM® Sametime® Bandwidth Manager, call rate policies are listed in order on the Call Rate Policies page. The order is significant because the policies are evaluated in that sequence, and the first matching policy is used to determine the call rate used for a call.

Ordering call rate policies

In a network managed by IBM® Sametime® Bandwidth Manager, call rate policies are listed in order on the Call Rate Policies page. The order is significant because the policies are evaluated in that sequence, and the first matching policy is used to determine the call rate used for a call.

About this task

By default, call rate policies are listed from newest to oldest, with the exception of the default policy, which is always listed last as the lowest priority. To change the order of call rate policies, perform the following steps.

To view examples of ordering call rate policies, see the Call rate policy examples in the planning section of this help.

Procedure

On the server hosting the bandwidth manager, open the IBM WebSphere® Application Server Integrated Solutions Console and log in as the WebSphere administrator.
Click Sametime Servers > Bandwidth Manager.
Click the Call Rate Policies tab.
Click the checkbox in the Select column for the policy you want to move.
Click the Move Up or Move Down button repeatedly until the policy appears in the appropriate position.