OCS Selection and Routing

Gy/Ro session initiation request (i.e. CCR-I) messages received from online charging clients to initiate credit-control sessions are load balanced across a collection of OCS servers connected to the PCA DSR that can serve the Diameter Request. Subsequent Gy/Ro CCR-U/T messages within the session are routed to the same OCS that served the CCR-I either by means of destination-host routing or by the stateful mechanism.

OC-DRA supports the following OCS Pool Selection modes for selecting the specific collection of OCS servers connected to the PCA DSR in which session initiation requests are to be load balanced across:

OCS Pool Selection modes are configurable via the NOAM GUI Main Menu: Policy and Charging > Configuration > Online Charging DRA > Network-Wide Options > OCS Pool Selection Mode.

One-time Gy/Ro credit-control events received from online charging clients are handled in the same manner as session initiation request (CCR-I) messages and are load balanced across a collection of OCS servers connected to the DSR that can serve the Diameter request.