CPC H04L 47/24 (2013.01) [H04L 43/0876 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A method, comprising:
monitoring application traffic in a plurality of network devices;
receiving a plurality of Quality of Service (QoS) policies, each corresponding to one of the plurality of network devices, wherein each of the QoS policies comprise QoS settings for a plurality of applications, wherein a number of the QoS settings is constrained by a size of a ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) in each of the plurality of network devices;
identifying, based on the application traffic, which ones of the plurality of applications generated a respective traffic flow on each of the plurality of network devices during a predefined time period;
updating each of the QoS policies to remove any settings in the QoS settings corresponding to an application of the plurality of applications that did not generate a respective traffic flow on the corresponding one of the plurality of network devices during the predefined time period; and
transmitting the QoS settings of the updated QoS policies to be stored in the TCAMs of the plurality of network devices.
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