SOA Policy, Service Gateway, and SLA Management

Policy traffic management and consumer provider pairs

This chapter expands upon the previous chapter by extending the discussion about policy for provider services to providing policy for a consumer-provider service pair. Service level agreements between consumers and providers are illustrated with examples.

This chapter contains the following topics:

•4.1, “Implement the consumer-to-provider services scenario” on page 88

•4.2, “Determining customer priority” on page 99

•4.3, “Customer priority policy example” on page 100

4.1 Implement the consumer-to-provider ...