Limiter Schedules vs Rules Schedules
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I have been having issues with limiters activating with schedules set on the just limiters themselves if there is more than one schedule set on an individual limiter. I do have some limiters set to use more than one schedule. I recently set schedules in the rules themselves along with the limiter schedules which seems to be helping some but I am confused as to how to best handle schedules if a single limiter has more than one schedule set for it but the rule can only have one schedule set on it. Please see the attached screenshots. One limiter has two schedules set but the associated rule only points to one of these schedules. It seems to me that the second schedule may not run correctly with this setup. Do I need to add a second rule that targets just the second limiter schedule? Many thanks for helping to clarify this.
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@midihead7 The schedule on the rule is going to turn the rule on or off. You may also want to read through the page on time based rules. So for your question you'd presumably need at least two rules.
However the limiter schedule should work. How were you setting a rule to use a limiter again, can you show that?
re: limiter schedule, do you have all times accounted for? (9p-8a AND 8:01a-8:59p)
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@steveits Thanks for your reply and for your willingness to help.
I did read the time-based rules docs and do understand how to set a schedule for a rule. Please see the attached screenshot showing a single schedule set on a rule along with the limiters set for that rule. As you've pointed out, the schedule set on the rule will turn the rule on or off (I don't want the rule to be active all of the time). I do have the limiter schedules set with all of the times that I need to account for.
I do want a particular limiter to have more than one schedule (as seen in a previous screenshot) because I have different bandwidth limits that need to be in place for different schedules. With the rule set to be active all of the time, I was having issues with the limiters not activating according to the schedule assigned on the limiters (this could have been partially due to originally having the rule set below another rule that was overriding it).
Ultimately, I want the particular rule to only be active at two different times (two schedules would be needed to accomplish this) and I also want the associated limiters to follow two different schedules to limit two different bandwidth limits that I need set.
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@midihead7 said in Limiter Schedules vs Rules Schedules:
originally having the rule set below another rule that was overriding it
Yeah, the order of rules matters. In that case it wouldn't ever get to the second rule.
I am not sure how turning off the rule, and killing/"Do not kill connections when schedule expires," will interact with having two rules each with their own rule schedule. You may need to experiment a bit.