Extreme Networks' EPICenter management suite is a full-featured network management tool that simplifies configuration, troubleshooting, & status monitoring of IP-based networks. Offering A superbly comprehensive set of network management applications including the ability to configure, monitor, troubleshoot, & manage the network & its elements, EPICenter delivers on both the basic requirements of network management while adding valuable & intuitive features that help save time by streamlining common tasks. Extreme's EPICenter Policy Manager is a plug-in to the EPICenter software suite providing layer-independent policy enforcement, bandwidth rate shaping & limiting policies in Layers 1-4 of the network. The EPICenter Policy Manager lets you work with high-level policy components (users, desktop systems, groups of users or systems, applications, & groups of devices & ports) in defining policies. The policy system translates those policy components into the specific information needed for Qo S configuration of network devices. It also detects overlaps & conflicts in policies, with precedence rules for resolving conflicting Qo S rules.