User's Guide
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Introduction and Roadmap
The following sections describe the audience for and organization of this document:
Document Scope and Audience
The purpose of the document is to describe the operation and maintenance related to BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper, including the following:
Intended audience is support engineers and system administrators working with BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper.
Guide to this Document
The document contains the following chapters:
- This chapter, Introduction and Roadmap, describes the structure and contents of this document, the used writing conventions, and related documentation.
- Installation describes how to install and perform basic configuration of WebLogic Network Gatekeeper.
- Network Gatekeeper Management Tool describes the WebLogic Network Gatekeeper management application, the Network Gatekeeper management tool, used for most of the WebLogic Network Gatekeeper OAM tasks.
- Application Connection - Web Services describes the measures to take before an application using the Extended APIs can set up the communication with BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper
- Service Provider and Application Administration describes how to register and maintain applications and user accounts in BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper.
- OSA Gateway Connection describes how to set up the initial connection with an OSA/Parlay gateway.
- SLEE and SLEE Service Operation describes how to change and supervise the state of the SLEEs and the individual SLEE services. It also describes how to view the resource utilization of the individual SLEEs and the versions of the SLEE services installed in the SLEEs.
- User Administration describes how to administer the administrative system users and user groups.
- Statistics Handling describes how to create and print reports of the number of service transactions handled by the system.
- Charging Data Export describes how to export charging data to a file.
- Alarm and Event Administration describes how to view and interpret the entries in the alarm list and event log.
- Mailbox Administration describes how to administrate mailboxes and message translations (mailbox short codes and message keywords).
- Routing Administration describes how to set up the routing towards the networks.
- User Interaction Announcement Administration describes how to connect the applications' announcement IDs with the actual announcements installed in the network.
- Whitelist Administration describes how to administrate the whitelists specifying which destination addresses are allowed for a service provider's applications.
- Recommended Periodic Maintenance provides a list of the recommended maintenance procedures.
- Service Extension describes the general principles on how to extend the system with new service functionality and how to connect new networks to BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper.
- System Scaling describes how to scale BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper in different levels.
- System Backup and Restoration describes how to perform system backups and restorations.
- System Upgrade describes how system upgrades and patches are handled.
- Alarm and Fault Handling describes the actions to take when an alarm has appeared in the alarm list.
Terminology
The following terms and acronyms are used this document:
- API —Application Programming Interface
- Application —A telecom enabled computer application accessed either from a telephony terminal or a computer.
- Application Developer —An organization or individual developing applications.
- Service Provider —An organization offering services provided by one or more applications to end users.
- AS —Application Server
- ATE —Application Test Environment
- CORBA —Common Object Request Broker Architecture
- End User —Person that uses an application. An end user can be identical to a subscriber, for instance in a prepaid service. The end user can also be a non-subscriber, for instance in an automated mail-ordering application where the subscriber is the mail-order company and the end user is a customer to this company.
- Enterprise Operator —See Service Provider.
- ESPA —Extended web services APIs and Service Capanilties.
- GMLC —Gateway Mobile Location Centre
- GMSC —Gateway Mobile Switching Centre
- GUI —Graphical User Interface
- HA —High Availability
- HTML —Hypertext Markup Language
- IDL —Interface Definition Language
- IIOP —Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
- INAP —Intelligent Network Application Part
- IOR —Interoperable Object Reference
- IP —Internet Protocol
- MAP —Mobile Application Part
- MMS —Multimedia Message Service
- MPC —Mobile Positioning Centre
- MPP —Mobile Positioning Protocol
- MTP —L3 Message Transfer Part Layer 3
- Network Plug-in —A network plug-in the Betwork gatekeeper to a network based service node or SCSes through a specific protocol.
- Network Service —See Service
- NS —Name Service or Network Simulator
- OAM —Operation, Administration, and Maintenance
- Operator —The owner of the Ntwork Gatekeeper
- ORB —Object Request Broker
- OSA —Open Service Access
- OSS —Operation Support System
- SCCP —Signalling Connection Control Part
- SCF —Service Control Function
- SCS —Service Capability Server
- SCS Plug-in —A network plug-in used to connect SCSes to the WebLogic Network Gatekeeper.
- Service —A network provided service capability.
- Service Capability —See Service
- SLA —Service Level Agreement
- SLEE —Service Logic Execution Environment
- SLEE —Service A software module that is designed to execute in the SLEE.
- SMPP —Short Message Peer-to-Peer Protocol
- SMS —Short Message Service
- SOAP —Simple Object Access Protocol
- SPA —Service Provider APIs
- SPC —Signalling Point Code
- SQL —Structured Query Language
- SRF —Service Resource Function
- SS7 —Signalling System 7
- SSF —Service Switching Function
- SSN —Sub System Number
- Subscriber —A person or organization that subscribes for an application. The subscriber is charged for the service usage. Also eee End User.
- TCAP —Transaction Capability Application Part
- TCP —Transmission Control Protocol
- UDDI —Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
- URL —Universal Resource Locator
- User —A person working with OAM through the WebLogic Network Gatekeeper Mangement Tool that has an administrative user name and password. An application accessing services through one or more APIs and has a user name and a password.
- VAS —Value Added Service
- VLAN Virtual Local Area Network
- VPN —Virtual Private Network
- WSDL —Web Services Definition Language
- XML —Extended Markup Language
Related Documentation
This user's guide is a part of BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper documentation set. The following documents contain other types of BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper information:
- BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper Product Description describes BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper functions and system characteristics.
- Developer's Guide for Parlay X describes how to design and implement applications on the Extended and Parlay X Web Services APIs.
- Developer's Guide for Extended Web Services describes how to design and implement applications on the extended Web Services APIs.
- Application Test Environment User's Guide describes how to use BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeer Application Test Environment when it comes to application test.
- API Description for Parlay X describes the open APIs available for developers and applications.
- API Description for Extended Web Services describes APIs available for developers and applications.
Other documentation
The third party documentation needed to operate and maintain BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper system is listed in References.
