1 Administration Overview

This chapter provides an overview of the tasks required to configure and administer Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper.

Services Gatekeeper Configuration Workflow

This section describes an overall workflow for configuring a Services Gatekeeper implementation.

1. The first step is to see the "Services Gatekeeper Administration Tools and Database Maintenance" chapter for an overview of the Services Gatekeeper administration tools.

2. If you do not use the PRM portals, the next step is to set up administrative users for the Administration Console to use, see:

   • Managing Users and User Groups

3. For basic Services Gatekeeper administration tasks see:

   • Starting, Stopping, and Administering Servers

   • Managing, Backing Up, and Restoring Services Gatekeeper

   • Securing Services Gatekeeper

4. For Services Gatekeeper administrations tasks as needed, see:

   • Setting Up Geographic Redundancy

   • Configuring Coherence Clusters

   • Configuring and Using the SNMP Service

   • Managing and Configuring SLAs: This expands on the basic settings used by the PRM portals.

   • Generating Statistics for Transaction Licenses

   • Managing and Configuring EDRs, CDRs and Alarms

   • Resolving Policy Deny Codes

   • Managing and Configuring the Trace Service

   • Upgrading and Redeploying Communication Services and Service Interceptors

5. For Services Gatekeeper administration tasks if you manually administer and use communication services see:

   • Deploying and Administering Communication Services

   • Managing and Configuring the Storage Service

   • Configuring Network Node Heartbeats

   • Configuring and Managing Communication Service Traffic

   • Managing and Configuring the Tier Routing Manager

6. For instructions to configure charging with a Diameter Server, see:

   • Implementing Diameter Ro Online Charging

   • Implementing Diameter Rf Offline Charging

7. To configure Services Gatekeeper to work with Open Services Architecture (OSA)/Parlay Gateways, see:

   • Managing OSA/Parlay Gateway Connections Using Parlay_Access

8. If you use Native UCP connections see:

   • Managing and Configuring Native UCP Connections

9. If you use Parlay X shortcode mappings:

   • Managing and Configuring Parlay X 2.1 Shortcode Mappings

For details on the individual communication services, see Services Gatekeeper Communication Service Reference Guide.

After the system is configured, provision service providers and applications, as described in the discussion on creating and maintaining service provider and application account in the Services Gatekeeper Portal Developer's Guide.