individual scheduled policies many individual scheduled policies or scheduled policy suites which are collections of policies overlaps of scheduled policies 6 and gaps between scheduled policies can be identified visually on the calendar because they are displayed in distinct colors seen in a darker grey on fig1 which are different from any other colored block displayed in addition the overlap is identified with a special mark as shown at 8 the administrator user can see all policies that contribute to an overlap by single clicking on tab 7 provided on the overlap area this allows the user to move between different overlapping conflicting policies they can double click on a policy of interest to display the respective attributes for example the ingress traffic under the qos template has attributes that confer it a policy 1 status between 1 00 am and 20 00 pm as shown by the block denoted with a however there is an overlap between 8 00 pm and 16 00 pm with policies policy 2 and policy 3 as shown by area denoted with b the overlap appears in a different color here dark grey in order to address the problem the user can select tab 8 associated with the respective overlapping blocks to correct the problem under the same qos template there is a gap between 20 00 pm and 24 00 pm.