1 Introduction

This guide describes Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper from operational, management and provisioning perspectives.

Container Services

The following chapters describe management of container services:

• Managing Management Users and Management User Groups

• Managing and Configuring Budgets

• Managing and Configuring EDRs, CDRs and Alarms

• CDRs and Diameter

• Managing and Configuring Statistics and Transaction Licenses

• Setting Up Geographic Redundancy

• Managing and Configuring the SNMP Service

• Managing and Configuring the Trace Service

• Managing and Configuring the Storage Service

• Managing and Configuring Credit Control Interceptors and SLAs

• Securing Web Services and OAM MBeans

• Deployment Model for Communication Services and Container Services

• Hitless Upgrade Using Production Redeployment

Overall Configuration Workflow

This section describes an overall workflow for configuring Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper.

1. To set up administrative users, see: "Managing Management Users and Management User Groups".

2. To configure Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper container service, see the following chapters:

   • "Managing and Configuring Budgets"

   • "Managing and Configuring EDRs, CDRs and Alarms"

   • "Managing and Configuring the SNMP Service"

   • "Managing and Configuring Statistics and Transaction Licenses"

   • "Managing and Configuring the Trace Service"

   • "Securing Web Services and OAM MBeans"

   • "Managing and Configuring the Plug-in Manager"

   • "Managing and Configuring the Tier Routing Manager"

   • "Setting Up Geographic Redundancy"

3. To configure Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper to work with Open Services Architecture (OSA)/Parlay Gateways, see the following chapter:

   • "Managing OSA/Parlay Gateway Connections using Parlay_Access"

4. To configure Security for Web Services and Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) MBeans, see the following chapter:

   • "Securing Web Services and OAM MBeans" for an introduction and pointers to relevant information.

5. To configure and seethe Plug-in Manager, see the following chapter:

   • "Managing and Configuring the Plug-in Manager"

6. To set up geographically redundant site pairs (as necessary), see the following chapter:

   • "Setting Up Geographic Redundancy".

7. To configure SOA Facades (as necessary), see the following chapter:

   • "Managing and Configuring SOA Facades".

To configure and manage the communication services, see the Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper Communication Service Guide.

After the system is configured, provision service providers and applications, as described in "Creating and Maintaining Service Provider and Application Accounts" in the Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper Accounts and SLAs Guide.