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Diameter Signaling Router Policy and Charging Application
Release 8.2
E89000
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Congestion Options elements

Table 6-39 describes the elements on the Policy and Charging > Configuration > Congestion Options page. The elements can be configured and viewed on the NOAM.

The page contains two sets of input fields:
  • Alarm Thresholds
  • Message Throttling Rules

Table 6-39 Congestion Options Elements

Fields (* indicates required field) Description Data Input Notes
Alarm Thresholds
Alarm Name Alarm is raised when average Policy and Charging ingress request messages rate exceeds the configured threshold. The thresholds are based on the engineered system value for Ingress Policy and Charging Request Message Capacity.

Format: Non-editable text box

Range: Policy and Charging Server in Congestion

* Critical Alarm Onset Threshold Percentage of Policy and Charging Ingress Request Message Rate capacity at which this alarm gets raised with Critical severity. This implies that the system is at Congestion Level 3.

Format: Text box

Range: 100-200

Default: 160

* Critical Alarm Abatement Threshold Percentage of Policy and Charging Ingress Request Message Rate capacity at which this alarm with Critical severity is cleared. This implies that the system has come out of Congestion Level 3.

Format: Text box

Range: 100-200

Default: 150

* Major Alarm Onset Threshold Percentage of Policy and Charging Ingress Request Message Rate capacity at which this alarm gets raised with Critical severity. This implies that the system is at Congestion Level 2.

Format: Text box

Range: 100-200

Default: 140

* Major Alarm Abatement Threshold Percentage of Policy and Charging Ingress Request Message Rate capacity at which this alarm with Critical severity is cleared. This implies that the system has come out of Congestion Level 2.

Format: Text box

Range: 100-200

Default: 130

* Minor Alarm Onset Threshold Percentage of Policy and Charging Ingress Request Message Rate capacity at which this alarm gets raised with Critical severity. This implies that the system is at Congestion Level 1.

Format: Text box

Range: 100-200

Default: 110

* Minor Alarm Abatement Threshold Percentage of Policy and Charging Ingress Request Message Rate capacity at which this alarm with Critical severity is cleared. This implies that the system has come out of Congestion Level 1.

Format: Text box

Range: 100-200

Default: 100

Message Throttling Rules

Tabs for Congestion Level 1, Congestion Level 2, and Congestion Level 3

* Discard Session Creation Requests Percentage of Request messages that result in new session creation, to be discarded when this congestion level exists.

Format: Text box

Range: 0-100

Default:

Level 1 - 25

Level 2 - 50

Level 3 - 100

* Discard Session Update Requests Percentage of Request messages that result in updating existing sessions, to be discarded when this congestion level exists.

Format: Text box

Range: 0-100

Default:

Level 1 - 0

Level 2 - 25

Level 3 - 50

* Discard Session Terminate Requests Percentage of Request messages that result in terminating existing sessions, to be discarded when this congestion level exists.

Format: Text box

Range: 0-100

Default:

Level 1 - 0

Level 2 - 0

Level 3 - 0