Which Cisco SD-WAN policy type manipulates OMP route advertisement and acceptance behavior?

Which Cisco SD-WAN policy type manipulates OMP route advertisement and acceptance behavior?

• A. Centralized control policy
• B. Data policy
• C. QoS policy
• D. Localized ACL

Answer: (A)

Centralized control policy is the mechanism that shapes how OMP routes are announced and accepted across the fabric. It runs on the vSmart controller and contains route import/export rules and tagging strategies that decide which prefixes from one VPN are advertised to others and whether a learned route will be accepted into a VPN. These rules give you control over how routes propagate through the SD-WAN overlay and how they are redistributed between control and data planes, enabling policy-based routing and traffic engineering. In contrast, data policy governs how traffic is handled on the data plane once it’s flowing through the network, QoS policy manages service quality and prioritization, and localized ACLs control access at individual devices. None of those directly manipulate OMP route advertisement and acceptance like the centralized control policy does.

Centralized control policy is the mechanism that shapes how OMP routes are announced and accepted across the fabric. It runs on the vSmart controller and contains route import/export rules and tagging strategies that decide which prefixes from one VPN are advertised to others and whether a learned route will be accepted into a VPN. These rules give you control over how routes propagate through the SD-WAN overlay and how they are redistributed between control and data planes, enabling policy-based routing and traffic engineering.

In contrast, data policy governs how traffic is handled on the data plane once it’s flowing through the network, QoS policy manages service quality and prioritization, and localized ACLs control access at individual devices. None of those directly manipulate OMP route advertisement and acceptance like the centralized control policy does.