From the course: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Foundations

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Centralized control policy

Centralized control policy

- [Instructor] Network administrators can use centralized control policy to manipulate the way traffic flows throughout the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN fabric. Fundamentally centralized control policies are the mechanism through which the control plane information that is advertised by the Overlay Management Protocol, or OMP, between the controllers and vantage routers is manipulated or filtered. By manipulating or filtering this information in the control plane, network administrators can influence the way that end-user traffic is forwarded in the data plane in order to accomplish their business objectives. Control policies and VPN membership policies are used to manipulate the propagation of routing information in the control plane, including manipulating or filtering OMP Routes and transport locator, or TLOC routes. Control policies are used for applications such as preferring one site over another for a specific…

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