Session Element Manager, Report Manager, and Route Manager Documentation Changes

The following tables describe the Session Element Manager, Report Manager, and Route Manager documentation changes that have occurred with the introduction of the Session Delivery (SD) Plugin Release 1.0, and Enterprise Plugin Release 1.0. These plugins are offered with Oracle Communications Session Delivery Manager, Release 8.0.

Oracle Communications Session Element Manager User Guide

Current Chapter Changes
About This Guide The description for each guide was updated.
Overview This chapter was rewritten to describe how the Oracle Communication Session Element manager product is offered through the product plugin. Information about accessing Session Element Manager features and customizing the display through Session Delivery Manager was incorporated into the Session Delivery Manager Application Overview chapter of the Oracle Communication Session Delivery Manager Administration Guide.

The information that was in the Session Delivery Product Device Support section is in the Oracle Communications Session Delivery Manager, Release 8.0 Release Notes.

Device Manager This chapter was rewritten and updated to introduce how network function (NF) groups, device groups, device clusters and devices are implemented. The following sections were changed:
  • Device clusters are now discussed in the Use an Offline Configuration for a Device Cluster chapter.
  • The Manage Network Functions with Devices section was added, and new sub-sections were added.
  • The Export Device Information to Your Local System section was renamed Export Device Information from Device Manager and the Export Detailed Device Information from Device Manager was added.
  • The View Device Information section was renamed View Network Function Information and its sub-sections were renamed.
Configuration Manager This chapter was rewritten and updated to introduce network functions (NF) support in Configuration Manager. Several sections and subsections were renamed, reorganized and new information was added to these sections and new sections were added. Also, previous sections about using global parameters, offline configurations, and reusable configuration modules now have their own chapters in this guide.
Configure and Apply Global Parameters to Devices This new chapter was added and rewritten to target specific configuration changes to the parameters in Configuration Manager. You can then use a global parameter work order to apply these changes across a group of targeted devices that must have the same software version and hardware platform. Some information in this chapter was in the previous Configuration Manager and Work Orders chapters.
Configure and Apply a Software Upgrade to Devices This new chapter was added and rewritten to use a software upgrade work order to apply automatic software upgrades across a group of targeted devices that have the same software version and hardware platform in Device Manager. Some information in this chapter was in the previous Configuration Manager and Work Orders chapters.

View Work Order Information

This new chapter was added and rewritten to view work order information in Dashboard Manager, Device Manager, and Configuration Manager. Some information in this chapter was in the previous Work Orders chapter.

Use an Offline Configuration for a Device Cluster

This new chapter was rewritten and added for using a common, top-level offline configuration template can be used to provision network function (NF) device cluster containing one or more groups that contain a device or a device high availability (HA) pair. Some information in this chapter was in the previous Device Manager and Configuration Manager chapters.

Configure and Apply a Reusable Configuration Module This new chapter was rewritten and added for using a Reusable Configuration Module (RCM), which is a work flow template that describes a sequence of configuration changes that are used to deploy a feature on a device. Information in this chapter was in the previous Configuration Manager chapter.
Dashboard Manager This chapter was previously named View Summary Data for Devices. Improvements were made to the structure and writing of this chapter.
Performance Manager The information in the View Performance Group Data section and subsections was moved to the Session Delivery Performance Group Reference appendix (A).
Performance Group Reference This new appendix describes the types of performance group data that can be viewed for a device in Performance Manager. Information in this chapter was in the previous version of the Performance Manager chapter.
Session Element Manager Traps This new appendix describes a list of SNMP traps (SNMP Trap OIDs) that originate from devices that appear in SEM events and alarms. Information in this chapter was in the previous Fault Manager chapter.

Oracle Communications Session Element Manager SOAP API Guide

Current Chapter Changes
Overview The Using the Apache CXF Client on the Session Delivery Manager Server section was updated to include JDK 1.8 support.

Oracle Communications Report Manager Installation Guide

Minor changes were made to this document that support the installation of Report Manager.

Oracle Communications Report Manager User Guide

Changes were made to this document that support the introduction of the Session Delivery product plugin and NF support. Also, the Create a Data Model section and its subsections were added, which provide instructions for creating a data model that is later used for a BI Publisher SDM report.

Oracle Communications Route Manager User Guide

All chapters and their respective sections in this document were renamed, rewritten, reorganized, and new information was added to this document to support the introduction of the product plugin and new device grouping structure.