A building permits desk contrasts SD-WAN control policy with data policy. Which distinction is correct?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Control policy argues about maps and which exits get advertised; data policy grabs the actual packets and steers or filters them. One shapes what the overlay learns, the other shapes what flows. Keep those jobs straight and troubleshooting gets easier.
Full Explanation
In Cisco SD-WAN, control policies act on the control plane—OMP routes, TLOC attributes, and related advertisement behavior—whereas data policies act on transit traffic to influence forwarding, marking, or filtering. Confusing the two leads to misplaced expectations, such as expecting a control policy to inspect payloads or a data policy to rewrite TLOC preference alone.