| Oracle® Communications IP Service Activator Release Notes Release 7.2 E35658-01 |
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| Oracle® Communications IP Service Activator Release Notes Release 7.2 E35658-01 |
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This chapter lists new features, product enhancements, and deprecated features in Oracle Communications IP Service Activator. It also includes deployment and installation considerations for IP Service Activator and related software.
This chapter consists of the following sections:
This section contains the new features and product enhancements in IP Service Activator release 7.2.
The new features in this release of IP Service Activator are:
The OSM to IP Service Activator Design Studio project enables you to use Oracle Communications Design Studio to develop Oracle Communications Order and Service Management (OSM) to IP Service Activator automated tasks, which are used as part of IP service provisioning workflows. The OSM to IP Service Activator Design Studio project has two parts:
IP Service Activator Service Action Definitions: exposes IP Service Activator functionality as a set of service actions that you can use in the activation task to construct automated tasks for OSM.
IP Service Activator Data Dictionary: provides predefined data definitions from the IP Service Activator objects and parameters available within core service modules and configuration policies.
Design Studio support for IP Service Activator reduces integration complexity compared to manual integration approaches. Design Studio, along with the OSM to IP Service Activator Design Studio project, aligns IP Service Activator with Oracle Communications OSS integration tools and best practices. You can create workflows that integrate IP Service Activator data and activation actions with other tools and systems.
Note:
To use this release of IP Service Activator with Design Studio, you require Design Studio 7.2.1 or later.Design Studio is enhanced to provide support for IP Service Activator. These enhancements are:
Configuration Template Module (CTM) import: You can now import CTM templates into Design Studio.
Activation Task support for IP Service Activator: As part of the OSM to IP Service Activator integration, the Design Studio Activation task is enhanced to provide support for IP Service Activator.
Note:
For more information about Design Studio enhancements for IP Service Activator, see Design Studio Release Notes.The OSM to IP Service Activator integration reference implementation provides an integrated L3 Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPN service solution sample, including configuration of Ethernet-based access for sites. L3 MPLS VPN is a widely deployed business service with a high degree of provisioning order complexity, as well as network configuration complexity.
The solution is packaged as a Design Studio project, which implements OSM workflows that consume structured provisioning orders and drive activation operations to devices in the network using IP Service Activator.
This tested and documented solution uses best practices for OSM to IP Service Activator integration. The solution includes workflows that allow you to create, modify, and delete services, as well as configure activation tasks.
You can adapt this implementation to suit specific needs, use it as a pattern for new workflows, or reference it as a set of worked examples that illustrate specific capabilities for OSM to IP Service Activator integration. This limits the risks when developing the overall solution and provides concrete examples of how an integrated system works, allowing you to more accurately assess the effort required to develop a specific solution.
For more information about IP Service Activator reference implementation, see OSS Integrated Service Provisioning Reference Implementation for Layer 3 MPLS VPN Service with Metro Ethernet Access (Doc ID 1479821.1) knowledge article on Oracle Support:
OSM to IP Service Activator integration best practices documentation describes the recommended approach for implementing a workflow-driven activation system using OSM and IP Service Activator. This document presents the cumulative knowledge Oracle experts have gained from their experience in developing OSM workflows.
Using this documentation allows you to more rapidly develop workflows, and ensures that these workflows are easier for you to maintain and enhance in the future.
If you want to obtain IP Service Activator best practices documentation, see OSS Integrated Service Provisioning Reference Implementation for Layer 3 MPLS VPN Service with Metro Ethernet Access (Doc ID 1479821.1) knowledge article on Oracle Support:
A comprehensive Web services-based interface for IP Service Activator provides a robust, scalable transport mechanism. Through Web services, you can use all core service modules and all configuration policies supported by IP Service Activator, allowing you to control activation operations from upstream systems. In addition, the Web services interface allows you to manage the service activator transaction cycle, lessening the complexity of upstream logic.
IP Service Activator aligns with industry standards and, using existing Oracle technology, you can integrate IP Service Activator with a range of industry and Oracle products that support Web services.
Note:
To use Web services with the OSM to IP Service Activator integration, OSM release 7.2.0 patch 1, or later is required.The MPLS L3 VPN cartridge for IP Service Activator for Cisco devices running IOS XR is enhanced to include support for IPv6 traffic. This cartridge extends and expands on the existing IP Service Activator multi-vendor support. Service providers can now manage their MPLS networks, consisting of devices from multiple vendors, using one model within IP Service Activator. This allows you to rapidly create, modify, and delete MPLS L3 VPNs and their parts across the network.
This functionality includes support for:
IPv6 addressing in the VPN
IPv6 static routing
IP Service Activator is enhanced with the introduction of IPv6 support for MPLS Traffic Engineering Label Switched Path (TE LSP) on Cisco IOS XR devices.
It includes IPv6 support for:
Activation of MPLS-TE LSP paths
Path protection (primary and secondary)
Automating mirror LSP paths
Link/Node protection and configuring fast re-route
IP Service Activator is enhanced with the introduction of IPv6 support for Quality of Service (QoS) using Modular QoS CLI (MQC) per hop behavior (PHB) on Cisco IOS XR devices.
It includes IPv6 support for the key QoS mechanisms:
Classification
Marking
Policing
Shaping
An Interface Configuration Management cartridge is introduced for IP Service Activator for Cisco devices running IOS XR.
This cartridge enables you to:
Create, modify and delete logical interfaces
Modify configuration on physical interfaces
An Interface Configuration Management cartridge is introduced for IP Service Activator for Juniper devices running JUNOS.
This cartridge enables you to:
Create, modify and delete logical interfaces
Modify configuration on physical interfaces
IP Service Activator is enhanced with support for Multilink Frame Relay interfaces on Cisco devices running IOS. New interface configuration policies have been introduced to allow you to create, modify and delete Multilink Frame Relay interfaces, including the ability to specify whether existing interfaces are part of a Multilink Frame Relay interface.
IP Service Activator is enhanced with new functionality for the Configuration Template Module (CTM).
New features include:
New CTM field types
Improved support for wildcards in the depends statement
The ability to nest templates
See the CTM online Help modules for more information.
Table 1-1 list the enhancements that are included in this release of IP Service Activator.
Table 1-1 IP Service Activator Enhancements
| BugDB Number | Description |
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13887017 |
IPV6 CHANGES FOR CISCO IOS XR LSP CARTRIDGE AND LSP MODULE |
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13887011 |
IPV6 SUPPORT FOR CISCO IOS XR QOS CARTRIDGE |
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13887026 |
IPV6 SUPPORT FOR CISCO IOS XR L3 VPN CARTRIDGE |
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13636111 |
SUPPORT THE NO IP PIM AUTORP STATEMENT FOR MULTICAST FEATURE |
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10217119 |
CONFIGURE CISCO MARTINI XCONNECT ON VLAN MAIN INTERFACES |
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9556354 |
UPGRADE TO SUPPORT MULTICAST WITH VRF-LITE CONFIGURATION |
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13527085 |
DEVICE DESCRIPTION FIELD LIMITED TO 128 CHARACTERS |
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12985989 |
IP SERVICE ACTIVATOR GUI RESTRICTS ETHERNET PORT SHAPING FROM 0 TO 4294967295 |
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12567327 |
SUPPORT FOR IPV6 IN JUNIPER DEVICE DRIVER |
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12372878 |
ALLOW MQCPHB TO USE NESTING WITH MARK ONLY SELECTED |
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12591514 |
IP SERVICE ACTIVATOR MAXIMUM-PREFIX COMMAND |
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10100930 |
SUPPORT FOR CONFIGURABLE TAG COMMAND IN IPSA SAA |
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10323740 |
IMPROVED ORGANIZATION OF COS MECHANISMS IN PHB AND MQCPHB OBJECTS |
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12340142 |
LSP SUPPORT FOR AUTOROUTE ANNOUNCE |
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12340200 |
LSP XR IOS NOT SENDING LDP COMMAND WHEN SELECTED |
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12351604 |
HUAWEI LSP ENHANCEMENTS. |
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12377665 |
INPUT INTERFACE TRAFFIC TYPE DOES NOT SUPPORT HYPHEN |
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12613342 |
ISR G2 & ASR ROUTERS SHOULD SUPPORT "NO IP PIM DM-FALLBACK" COMMAND |
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9338421 |
SUPPORT FOR "MATCH COS <N>" AND "MATCH COS INNER <N>" |
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12779414 |
EXTRA OPTIONS FOR BGP NEIGHBOR LOCAL-AS COMMAND ON CISCO IOS CARTRIDGE |
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12928024 |
IP SERVICE ACTIVATOR THROWS EXCEPTION WHILE REMOVING HOLD-QUEUE COMMAND FROM INTERFACE |
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12774990 |
ABILITY TO SPECIFY THE OSPF PROCESS ID IN CISCO IOS CARTRIDGE |
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12779613 |
EXTRA COMMAND IN ROUTE POLICY FOR THE CISCO IOS CARTRIDGE. |
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12852561 |
CISCO PROPRIETARY MIB TO BE USED FOR IPV6 DATA |
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12552096 |
CANNOT USE WILDCARD IN AUTODISCOVERY.CFG RENAME COMMAND |
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12940624 |
FEATURE FOR ALCATEL DISCOVERY MODULE TO INCLUDE CARD NAME IN INTERFACE PROPERTIES |
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12940687 |
ALCATEL DISCOVERY MODULE WILL NOT REDISCOVER DEVICE IF IT IS IN A NOT FOUND STAT |
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JUNIPER CARTRIDGE REPLACEMENT FOR JUNIPER DEVICE DRIVER |
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14126939 |
HUAWEI CARTRIDGE APPENDING AUTOGENERATED NUMBER TO QOS OBJECTS |
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14232221 |
SUPPORT FOR EXTRA COMMANDS IN VIRTUAL TEMPLATE CONFIGURATION POLICY |
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14604666 |
DUPLEX/SPEED SETTING ON CISCO UNIVERSAL CONFIG POLICY |
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13952990 |
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR MULTICAST VPN FOR CISCO |
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13780160 |
ENHANCEMENT TO SUPPORT BFD SUPPORT FOR BGP FOR L3 VPN |
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13452054 |
ENHANCEMENT TO CISCO BGP AND VRF ROUTE POLICIES TO SUPPORT SET AS PATH-PREPEND AND SET ORIGIN COMMANDS |
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14102924 |
SUPPORT OF IP PIM DR-PRIORITY 10 |
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16385851 |
SUPPORT CORE INTERFACE CREATION POLICIES FOR JUNOS CARTRIDGE |
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SOLARIS 11 SUPPORT |
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10169508 |
MLFR INTERFACES SUPPORTED IN IP SERVICE ACTIVATOR |
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16658331 |
CTM ENHANCEMENTS |
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13774183 |
SUPPORT FOR CONFIGURATION POLICIES FOR CISCO IOS XR |
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14181099 |
THE ABILITY TO LINK A CONFIG POLICY TO A DEVICE WITHOUT THE USE OF AN INTERFACE |
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16210996 |
THE SAME MULTIPATH FUNCTIONALITY FOR JUNIPER AS FOR CISCO IOS XR |
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16990518 |
UPVERSION JRE TO 1.7.0 U IN IP SERVICE ACTIVATOR/ CM |
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9963766 |
SUPPORT FOR 4-BYTE ASN NUMBERS IN JUNIPER DEVICE DRIVER |
The following features have been removed from the feature set in this IP Service Activator release:
Juniper E-series Device Support
LSP Module
Oracle Solaris 32-bit
ASAP-IP Service Activator Process Integration Pack
Transaction Export Utility
Dual Dispatch
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