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Figure 12: Scheduler Policy on Customer Site and Scheduler Hierarchy Creation
Queues become associated with schedulers when the parent scheduler name is defined within 
the queue definition in the SAP ingress policy. The scheduler is used to provide bandwidth 
to the queue relative to the operating constraints imposed by the scheduler hierarchy.
Scheduler Policies Applied to SAPs
A scheduler policy can be applied to create egress schedulers used by SAP queues. The 
schedulers comprising the policy are created at the time the scheduler policy is applied to the 
SAP. If any orphaned queues exist (queues specifying a scheduler name that does not exist) 
on the egress SAP and the policy application creates the required scheduler, the status on the 
queue will become non-orphaned.
Queues are associated with the configured schedulers by specifying the parent scheduler 
defined within the queue definition from the SAP egress policy. The scheduler is used to 
provide bandwidth to the queue relative to the operating constraints imposed by the scheduler 
hierarchy. 
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