Release Notes
Release 7.1
E66300-01
May 2016
These release notes describe the new features in release 7.1 of Oracle Communications Evolved Communications Application Server (OCECAS). They also describe updates to the documentation.
This section describes new features and feature enhancements in this release of OCECAS.
Utilization of XML configuration access protocol (XCAP) to provide Ut interface support for managing configuration of supplementary services. Includes ability to integrate with an existing HSS for subscriber profile data and querying Supplementary Service data.
The following control flow Activities have been added in support of XCAP: XCAP Authorize, XCAP Fetch and Store Document, XCAP Process Document, XCAP Update Document.
Ensures that operators with existing MSCs that are not enhanced for service centralization can deliver service to legacy circuit switched networks. OCECAS integrates Oracle Communications Converged Application Service Controller (OCCAS-SC) to integrate with an MSC that is not enhanced for ICS and provide IMS centralized services.
Supports synchronisation of supplementary service (SS) data changes to both the Home Subscriber Server (HSS) and the Home Location Register (HLR).
VoWiFi support includes the following enhancements:
Support for multiple subscriber addresses
Detecting location change
Support of SIP forking
Service continuity for inter-UE transfer
Supports fine-grained authorization of user actions through the assignment of roles, which have associated permissions. Uses the underlying Oracle Platform Security Services (OPSS) framework, which provides security to Oracle Fusion Middleware, to implement the authorization of user actions.
A standards-based mechanism that enables OCECAS to co-exist with other SIP servlets, application servers, and applications, which can often perform specialized tasks. These other application servers and applications can reside on the same node or on different nodes.
Network function virtualization (NFV) virtualizes network node functions into building blocks that you can connect to create communication services. One or more virtual machines run OCECAS network functions on industry-standard, high-volume servers, switches, storage, or even cloud computing infrastructure, instead of using custom hardware appliances. Employs Oracle Communications Application Orchestrator as a virtual network function (VNF) manager.
Generates SNMP events during runtime processing. Events are converted to SNMP Traps and sent to Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), the Oracle solution for SNMP Trap Management. SNMP traps represent unique application events that are sent to the NMS and logged.
Bundling of change sets allows you to combine change sets and deploy them as a single unit. Bundling makes deployment and rollback of a group of change sets as easy as deploying and rolling back a single change set.
Copying a change set enables you to make changes to a change set that has been deployed to the staging or production environments. Ordinarily, you cannot make changes to a change set in the staging or production environments, even if it has been retracted. You can, however, make changes to the copy.
Includes the following additional control flow Activities:
Table 1 New Control Flow Activities
| Activity | Description |
|---|---|
|
Delete |
Deletes a context field entry. |
|
Maths |
Enables basic numerical operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and modulus. |
|
Send Inter-Session Event |
Sends an event from one SIP application session to another. |
|
Send Subscription Notify |
Sends a notification on an existing subscription notifier session. |
|
Start Forked Session |
Starts a forked session between initiating endpoint and a set of destination endpoints defined in the activity. |
|
Start Subscription Notifier Session |
Starts OCECAS running as a SIP Subscription Notifier as a result of receiving a SIP SUBSCRIBE request. |
|
Start Timer |
Starts a timer for a configurable duration. |
|
Subscribe Event Package |
Sends a SIP Subscribe request. |
|
XCAP Authorize |
Gathers the XML, HTTP method and node selector from context on which to operate. |
|
XCAP Fetch and STore Document |
Loads subscriber data as XCAP XML into the context Map. |
|
XCAP Process Document |
Processes the XCAP inbound configuration and the Subscriber data as XML documents. |
|
XCAP Update |
Updates subscriber data from XCAP XML into the context Map. |
The following updates have been implemented in the Release 7.1 OCECAS documentation.
Oracle Communications Evolved Communications Application Server Concepts
"About XCAP and Supported Supplementary Services"
"About SIP Chaining"
"About Oracle Platform Security Services"
"About Creating Multimedia Services" changed to "About OCECAS Services"
New section: "About Service Centralization"
"About Session Design Center" updated to describe triggering of HTTP message control flows.
Updated Figure 6-1 "ECAS Components and Their InterCommunication"
New chapter, "About Network Function Virtualization"
Oracle Communications Evolved Communications Application Server System Operator's Guide
New appendix, ”Activities Reference”, describes the Activities available for creating control flows in the Session Design Center, including their parameters and exits.
The ”Default Subscriber Store Schema” has been updated.
The following section has been added to ”Working with Control Flows”:
"Creating An SNMP Event"
The following section has been added to "Working with Change Sets":
"Bundling Change Sets"
"Copying Change Sets"
The following sections have been updated in ”Accessing Service Data with the RESTful API”:
"Exporting a Control Flow"
"Importing a Control Flow"
Oracle Communications Evolved Communications Application Server System Administrator's Guide
"About Configuring Inter-UE Transfer"
"About Configuring an MSC Not Enhanced for ICS"
"About Configuring IMS Centralized Services"
"About Configuring SIP Chaining"
"Managing Network Function Virtualization"
"Managing Alarms" updated to "Managing SNMP Events"
"Backing Up and Restoring"
"Alarms Reference" updated to "SNMP Events Reference"
Oracle Communications Evolved Communications Application Server Installation Guide has been updated to address several issues.
"Installing OCCAS-SC"
"Initializing the OPSS Repository"
"Post-Configuration Tasks for Your Domains"
"Configuring OCECAS and OCCAS-SC Integration"
"Upgrading OCECAS 7.0 to 7.1"
"Dropping the OPSS Repository" in "Uninstalling OCECAS"
Oracle Communications Evolved Communications Application Server Compliance Guide has been updated.
Compliance statements have been added for IETF document RFC 4745, "Common Policy: A Document Format for Expressing Privacy Preferences" and IETF document RFC 4825, "Extensible Markup Language (XML) Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP)."
RESTful API Reference has been replaced by SDC RESTful API Reference and UDR RESTful API Reference.
All outstanding documentation bugs have been resolved.
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