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Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
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1 About Policy Controller

• What Policy Controller Does
  • About Policy Controller Scalability
• About Policy Controller Terms
• About the Policy Controller Architecture
  • Architecture Overview
  • About the Policy Controller Back End Components
• About the Policy Designer Interface
  • About Creating PCC Profiles to Set Bandwidth and Charging Levels
  • About Creating ADC Profiles to Manage Application Traffic
• About the Policy Controller Session Call Flow

2 Installing and Configuring Policy Controller

• Policy Controller Hardware and Software Requirements
• Installing and Deinstalling Policy Controller
  • Creating and Starting a Domain and Managed Server for Policy Controller
• Understanding Policy Controller Memory Requirements
• Configuring Java JVM Parameters
  • Example Configuration for a Unified Domain with Service Continuity
  • Example Configuration for Service Availability
• Starting, and Configuring Policy Designer
  • Starting Policy Designer
  • Setting the Policy Designer Port Number
  • Using the Policy Designer Accessibility Features
    • Selecting Accessibility Features
  • Disabling the Policy Designer Automatic Start
• Configuring Policy Controller
  • Policy Controller Configuration Checklist
  • Configuring Your Diameter Traffic
    • Configuring the SSU Diameter and Specify AF and PCEF Servers as Peers
    • Configuring the SSU Diameter to Route PCEF and AF Service Data Flow
  • Configuring Policy Controller System Parameters
    • Configuring Policy Controller Global Parameters
    • Add any Vendor-specific Values for Event-Trigger to Use as Event Triggers
  • Configuring the Policy Controller Session Guard Timers
• About Execution Blocks
• Configuring Data Storage for Policy Controller
• Configuring Your PCEF Server
• Configuring Your AF Server
• (Optional) Configuring Policy Controller to Send SMS Messages
• (Optional) Configuring Custom Event Triggers
• (Optional) Configuring the Operation Timeout Setting
  • Changing the Operation Timeout Settings
• (Optional) Supporting Explicit Rule Removal

3 Configuring Subscriber Profile and Charging Information

• About the SPR/OCSs Available for Policy Controller
  • How Policy Controller Obtains Subscriber Information from Your SPR/OCS
  • About the Subscriber Store Data Model
• Using the Local Subscriber Store as an SPR/OCS
• Using Oracle Billing and Revenue Management as an SPR/OCS
  • About BRM Subscriber Profiles
  • Using the BRM as an SPR/OCS
  • Configuring the BRM Subscriber Store
    • Configuring the PCP Profile Provider
    • Configuring a Subscriber Store Provider
  • Subscriber Profile Data Model
    • globalProfileData Element
    • pcrfProfileData Element
    • counterProfileData Element
      • About Counter Regions
    • profileDataExtension Element
    • userIdentifier Element
  • PCP Profile Provider Data Mapping
• Using a Third-Party SPR with Diameter Connectivity
• Using a Third-Party SPR/OCS with Web-Based Connectivity
  • Confirming that Your Web-Based SPR/OCS is Connected

4 Monitoring Policy Controller Using Runtime MBeans

• About Monitoring Policy Controller
• Monitoring the Processing Domain
  • Monitoring the Policy Controller Interfaces
    • Getting Statistics on the Gx Interface
    • Getting Statistics on the Rx Interface
• Monitoring the Signaling Domain
  • Checking the Status of Diameter Network Entities
  • Checking the Status of PCP Network Entities
  • Checking the Status of Web Service Network Entities
  • Checking the Status of SMPP Network Entities

5 Implementing Overload Protection

• About Overload Protection
• Using Gauges and Counters as Key Overload Indicators
  • About System and Module Levels of Overload Protection
  • Understanding the Essential Steps for Configuring Overload Protection
  • Configuring Threshold Crossed Notifications Rules
  • Specifying Your Key Overload Indicators
  • Configuring General Monitoring Parameters For Policy Controller
  • Configuring the Overload Protection Behavior

6 Adding Custom Diameter AVPs

• About Adding Custom Diameter AVPs
• Adding Custom AVPs to Use with Policy Controller
• About Diameter AVP Data Types
• Functions Available for Each Data Type

7 Working With the Policy Designer Interface

• Working with Deployments
  • Managing Deployments
  • Sharing Deployment Files
• Working with Profiles
• About Rules
  • Example Rule Strategies
  • About Redirecting Subscriber Service or Session Traffic
  • About Using Policy Controller to Send SMS Messages
  • Using Multi-service Products
  • Dynamically Changing Service Offerings
• About the Advanced Settings for Rulesets, Rules, and Rule Actions
  • Using the Advanced Menu Features for All Rulesets
  • Using the Advanced Settings for the Active Ruleset
  • Using the Advanced Settings for a Rule
• Working with Rulesets
• Managing Lists of Values
  • Creating a List of Values
  • Editing a List of Values
  • Deleting an Item in a List of Values
  • Deleting a List of Values
• Using Grouped AVPs in the Rules
  • Adding Grouped AVPs to the Rule Condition Browser
  • Removing Grouped AVPs from the Rules Condition Browser

8 Creating Policy Charging and Control Profiles

• About PCC Profiles
  • Planning Your PCC Profiles
  • Creating Rating Group IDs to Use in PCC Profiles
  • Creating Service IDs to Use in PCC Profiles
• Creating a Dynamic PCC Profile
• Creating a Predefined PCC Profile
• Changing the PCC Profile Table Display
• Filtering PCC Profiles by Text, Bandwidth, or Date
• Deleting PCC Profiles

9 Creating Application Detection and Control Profiles

• About ADC Profiles
  • Planning Your ADC Profiles
• Creating an ADC Profile
• Changing the ADC Profile Table Display
• Filtering ADC Profiles by Text, Bandwidth, or Date
• Deleting ADC Profiles

10 Strategies for Creating Rules

• About Creating Policy Controller Rules
  • Understanding How Policy Controller Makes Policies Take Effect
  • Selecting Among Subscriber Sessions
  • Creating Rules Using OCS Subscriber Thresholds
  • Redirecting Users to a URL
  • Using Vendor-specific and Default Gx Event Triggers to Reinterpret Rules
• Redirecting Service Data Flow for a Session or Individual Service
  • Globally Redirecting All Services in a Session
  • Redirecting Individual Services Inside a Session
  • Creating Aliases for Redirection Target Addresses
• Using Rules to Send SMS Messages
  • Configuring Policy Controller to Send SMS Messages
  • Adding SMS details to a Rule
• Using Custom Diameter AVPs in Your Rules
• Example Rules
  • Using Subscriber Data to Change a PCC Profile
  • Applying a New Service to an Existing Service
  • Applying a Profile for Part of a Day
  • Using an Event Trigger to Change a PCC Profile
  • Throttling Back QoS When Credit Expires
  • Using a Local Fact to Apply a PCC Profile

11 Creating Rules and Rulesets

• About Rules and Rulesets
  • Working with Rules
  • Implementing Rules
  • Rule Editor Naming Conventions
• Viewing and Modifying Deployments
• Creating and Deleting Rulesets
  • Creating a Ruleset
  • Deleting a Ruleset
• Setting the Effective Date for a Rule or Ruleset
• Managing Rulesets
• Creating and Deleting Rules
  • Creating a Rule
  • Deleting a Rule
  • Defining the Condition of a Rule
    • Creating a Test
    • Deleting a Test from a Rule
    • Creating a Condition with Multiple Tests
    • Changing the Order of Tests
  • Defining the Actions of a Rule
    • Asserting a New Action
    • Changing the Order of Actions
    • Deleting an Action
    • About Event Triggers
  • Using the Condition Browser
  • Using the Expression Builder
  • Changing the Display Order of Rules in a Ruleset
• Deploying Rulesets to a Deployment

12 Working With Service Data Records

• About Service Data Records
• About Service Data Record Types
  • Network SDRs
  • Application SDRs
• About Service Record Data Formats
  • Common Header Fields for Network SDRs
  • Common Header Fields for Application SDRs
• About Service Record Data Templates
  • Diameter Templates
  • SOAP Templates
  • Customizing Templates
• About SDR Output Files
  • SDR Output Format
  • Output Fields
• SDR Examples
  • SDR Example Fields
  • SDR Record Examples
• Enabling SDR Generation
• Customizing Templates
• Configuring SDR Logging
  • Setting the Maximum File Size and Number of Files
• Administrative Issues

A Policy Controller Reference

• Policy Controller Specification Reference
• Supported Gx Event-Trigger Event Values