New Features

Welcome to Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper™ 4.1.1 As the leading Telecom Service Access Gateway, Services Gatekeeper integrates telecom network technologies with SOAP Web Services, RESTful Web Services and SOA to provide a reliable framework for developing and deploying highly available, scalable, and secure telecommunications applications and features. Services Gatekeeper's seamless integration of disparate, heterogeneous platforms and applications enables your network to leverage existing software investments and share the carrier-class services and data that are crucial to building next-generation telecommunication applications.

This chapter describes at a high level what new features in Services Gatekeeper have been created to support the ongoing evolution of the platform.

Updated Security

BugDB Enhancement ID 8334713

It is now possible to create a password validation provider to provide password rules for use with the Services Gatekeeper default authentication provider.

For more information, see “Add a Custom Password Validator” in “Completing Post-Installation” in Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper Installation Guide.

BugDB Enhancement ID 8345341

Passwords are now displayed as a string of asterisks in the Administration Console when management users change passwords. Previously, both old and new passwords were displayed in plain text.

BugDB Enhancement ID 8508260

When management users change passwords in the Administration Console, Services Gatekeeper now validates and requires that the new password is different from the old password.

Updated Communication Services

Parlay X 2.1 Short Messaging/SMPP and Extended Web Services Binary SMS/SMPP

Attributes have been added to allow individual default settings for Esme TON and Esme NPI for both originating and destination addresses.
A new MBean operation, modifySmsNotification, has been added to allow modifications of online notifications.
BugDB Enhancement ID 8359010

All segments of concatenated SMS messages sent using submit_sm are now routed to the same plug-in instance and to the same SMSC instance. This reduces the chance that SMS message segments will arrive out of sequence and thus delay the message.

BugDB Enhancement ID 8366646

All SMS messages directed to the same phone number that are sent from the same application within a short period of time are now routed to the same plug-in instance and SMSC instance. This reduces the chance that SMS messages will arrive out of sequence and thus delayed.

BugDB Enhancement ID 8371224

RESTful API are now provided for binary SMS messages.

BugDB Enhancement ID 8470056

The criteria parameter in the enableReceiveSms operation can now include regular expressions.

BugDB Enhancement ID 8663264

Currently, the BindType attribute allows two bind types:

0: Transmitter and Receiver
1: Transceiver.

Two new bind types have been added to support binding to the SMSC in only Transmitter or only Receiver mode:

2: Transmitter
3: Receiver

The criterion for routing MO messages can now be filtered based on multiple words in the message content. By default, the criterion is filtered based on only the first word in the message content, according to the Parlay X specification. To use multiple words for filtering, use the SmsMBean setMaxKeywordlimit operation for the SMPP plug-in. This operation sets the maxkeywordlimit attribute to the number of words you specify. For example, if you set maxkeywordlimit to 5, the criterion is filtered based on the first five words in the MO message content.

Parlay X 2.1 Multimedia Messaging Communication Service

BugDB Enhancement ID 8536481

Mobile originating MMS CDRs now contain the originatingParty and destinationParty address fields. This makes it easier for service providers to identify the party that should be charged for the service.

Native SMPP

BugDB Enhancement ID 8485628

Network-triggered messages that arrive from the network to an NT server that does not have an active bind to the targeted application can be routed, using JMS, to the application if another NT server does have an active bind. A new attribute, OfflineMO, in the SmppConnectorMbean MBean must be set to true for this feature to function.

BugDB Enhancement ID 8667399

More information about SMPP requests will be logged in the log file when the logging priority is set to DEBUG.

Platform Test Environment Updates

BugDB Enhancement IDs 8810440 and 8810452

The Platform Test Environment location simulator has been more tightly integrated with the network simulator. Network simulator responses now return the actual location of a device based on where the device is placed in the Platform Test Environment Simulator Map panel. This enables accurate periodic and geographic notifications. Previously, the network simulator returned a static device location.

BugDB Enhancement ID 8810461

The location simulator now constrains how often geographical notifications are sent based on the frequency specified in the frequency attribute of the location request.

BugDB Enhancement ID 8810473

You can now use a customized map in the Platform Test Environment Simulator by clicking the new Customize button in the Platform Test Environment Map panel.

New Error Codes

BugDB Enhancement ID 8318481

There are new error codes for SLA violations. Previously, the same error message and code were returned when the request limit was exceeded for either a Global Node SLA or a Service Provider SLA. Now there are separate error codes and messages for each of these SLAs.

Supported Interfaces

Supported Configurations

MySQL 5.1 is now supported. Other supported configurations have not changed since Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper 4.0. For a complete listing, see the Supported Configurations chapter in the Installation Guide.

Release Notes