network hardware discovery

Network hardware discovery is essentially an intelligent macro that enables an administrator to enter one or two simple AutoQoS commands to enable all the appropriate features for the recommended QoS settings for an application on a specific interface

For example, in its first release, network hardware discovery would provide best-practice QoS configurations for VoIP on Cisco Catalyst switches and routers. By entering one global or one interface command (depending on the platform), the AutoQoS VoIP macro then would expand these commands into the recommended VoIP QoS configurations (complete with all the calculated parameters and settings) for the platform and interface on which the AutoQoS is applied