This chapter explains how to add a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) network node to your Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper implementation.
You use a PCRF to create and interpret quality of service (QoS) rules for the web services that Services Gatekeeper manages. You also need a Policy Enforcement Rules Function (PCEF) to enforce those rules. This chapter explains the general steps necessary to add a PCRF to your Services Gatekeeper implementation, using a Tekelec PCRF as an example. The instructions for adding other PCRFs are similar. These tasks are explained in the sections that follow:
This section explains how to configure both the Tekelec PCRF and your Services Gatekeeper to communicate.
This chapter assumes that you have:
Installed Services Gatekeeper and started the domain servers.
Acquired and started the Tekelec PCRF server.
Acquired and know the IP address of a PCEF.
To add a Tekelec PCRF to Services Gatekeeper:
Open a web browser
Enter the IP address of the Tekelec PCRF.
The Policy Management Initial Configuration Screen appears.
Check these checkboxes:
Diameter 3GPP
Quotas Gx
Manage Policy Servers
Manage Policies
Manager is HA
Click OK.
The Tekelec Welcome page appears.
Enter the user name and password supplied by Tekelec and click Login.
The password reset page appears.
Enter your current password and a new one.
Select Change Password.
The Tekelec Policy Configuration Management Platform management console appears.
To configure the Tekelec topology:
From the Tekelec CMP management console, navigate to Platform Setting, then Topology Setting, then All Clusters, then Add CMP Cluster.
Enter your Services Gatekeeper server type in the HW Type field and IP address in the OAM VIP field.
See the Tekelec documentation for the correct HWType setting.
See the Tekelec documentation for instructions on setting Signaling VIP 1 field.
Click Save.
The CMP server is restarted
Select Topology Settings, then All Cluster. then Add MPE.
Enter your Services Gatekeeper server type in the HW Type field and IP address i the OAM VIP field.
See the Tekelec documentation for the correct HWType setting.
See the Tekelec documentation for instructions for setting the Signaling VIP 1 field.
Navigate to Platform Setting, then Topology Setting, then New Network Elements.
Enter your Services Gatekeeper server type in the HW Type field and IP address i the OAM VIP field.
See the Tekelec documentation for the correct HWType setting.
See the Tekelec documentation for instructions on setting the Signaling VIP 1 field.
Click Save.
The MPE server is restarted.
To configure network elements, including setting the identify of the policy PCEF, Diameter server, and applications to use in your Services Gatekeeper/Tekelec PCRF implementation:
From the CMP management console, navigate to Policy Server, then Network Elements.
The New Network Element screen appears.
Enter a pcef_name for the new PCRF implementation in the Name field.
Enter the MPE server's IP address the Host Name/ IP Address field.
Select GGSN from the Type menu.
Select Save.
The PCEF element is created
Navigate to the GGSN tab.
The Modify Network Element screen appears.
Enter oracle.com in the Diameter Realm field
Enter gx-ggsn in the Diameter Identity field.
Select Save.
Navigate to Policy Server, then Applications.
The New Applications window appears.
Enter Services_Gatekeeper or another name for your Services Gatekeeper domain server in the Name field.
Enter an informal description in the Description field.
Enter the Services Gatekeeper IP address in the Connection IP Address(es) field.
Enter an informal name for the Diameter identity.
Select Save.
Your Services Gatekeeper implementation is added as an application.
To configure a policy server:
Tekelec CMP management console, navigate to Policy Server, then Configurations.
The New Policy Server window appears.
Select MPE from the Associated Cluster Name menu.
Select Tekelec from the Type menu.
Click Save.
The new MPE Policy Server is created.
To configure the MPE policy server:
In the CMP management console, navigate to Policy Server, then Configurations, then select the Policy Server tab.
Enter the name for your Services Gatekeeper application in the Applications field. You used the name Services_Gatekeeper in "Configure Network Elements and a Services Gatekeeper Application".
Enter PCEF, in the Network Elements field.
In the Subscriber Indexing field, set IMSI: Index by IMSI to true.
Enter your Diameter server port number in the Diameter Port field. 6868 is the default.
Enter oracle.com in the Diameter Realm field.
Enter oracle in the Diameter Identity field.
Click Save.
To set the policy server's log level:
In the CMP management console, navigate Policy Server, then Configurations, then select the Logs tab.
Select Info from the Trace Log Level menu.
Click Save.
To configure Services Gatekeeper to communicate with the Tekelec PCRF:
Open the Services Gatekeeper Administration Console.
Navigate to wlng_nt_qos#release_level, then QoSMBean, then DestinationAddresses.
Enter the IP address of your Tekelec PCRF in the DestinationAddresses: field.
Click Save.
Navigate to OoSMbean, then DestinationRealm.
Enter the oracle.com in the DestinationRealm field.
Click Save.
Now that you have configured a PCRF to communicate with Services Gatekeeper, you need to configure the QoS rules that define your implementation's QoS products. That discussion is beyond the scope of the Services Gatekeeper documentation. See your PCRF documentation for details.