State and Properties

The Diameter > Mediation > State & Properties page lists all of the Rule Templates that are configured in the system, and shows the State, Action Error Handling and Status of Rule Counters settings for each Rule Template.

Each Rule Template is in one of the following States at any point of time:

• Development
• Test
• Active

The Action Error Handling defines the error handling strategy to be used if any Action in the Rule Template fails.

The Status of Rule Counters, when enabled, analyze the rules and track the number of times each rule successfully matches all the conditions in the template. The Rule Template must be in a Test or Active state.

Each Rule Template starts in the development state when it is being created. Rule Templates in the Development state cannot be assigned to Triggers, until it changes to a test state.

After all of the necessary Conditions and Actions are added, the Rule Template must be set to the test state, to indicate that the Rule Template is complete. A Rule Set entry is generated in the Rule Sets left-hand menu folder; the Rule Set can be provisioned with actual data in one or more rules, and can be associated with a Trigger. In the Test state, only limited changes can be made to the contents of the Rule Template, as define in Rules Template.)

The Rule Template state can be set back to development only when the Administrator privileges are activated for the Diameter Mediation feature. All provisioned data for the Rule Template is lost if the state is set back to Development.

The Rule Template state can be set to test or the association between the Rule Set and a Trigger can be removed to disable the Rule Set for live traffic.

In the Test state a Mediation Rule Set does not affect the live traffic, but the operator can test the newly created, imported, or modified Rule Set that was generated from the Rule Template. The Diagnostics Tool can be used to exercise and test the Rule Templates in the Test state, along with Rule Templates in the Active state. See Maintenance in the Diameter User's Guide and Reports in the Diameter User's Guide.

When the state of a Rule Template is set to Active, the Rule Set associated with the Rule Template begins to participate in processing of real traffic messages.

The Import function from the Diameter > Mediation > Rule Templates page is duplicated on the Diameter > Mediation > State & Properties page for use when the Administrator privileges are not activated and the Diameter > Mediation > Rule Templates page cannot be accessed. An imported Rule Template is set to Test state.

On the Diameter > Mediation > State & Properties page, you can perform the following actions:

• Import Rule Template to import a previously exported Rule Template from a location outside of the system, as defined in Importing a Rule Template.

  If importing a Rule Template would cause the maximum number of Rule Templates (100) in the system to be exceeded, the Rule Template is not imported and an error message appears.

• Edit a Rule Template Name in the list, and click . You can change the State, Action Error Handling and enable or disable Status of Rule Counters for the selected Rule Template, as defined in Editing State and Properties.

  When the Administrator privileges are not activated for the Diameter Mediation feature, the state of a Rule Template cannot be changed back to Development.

• Delete a Rule Template Name, as defined in Deleting a Rule Template.

  When a Rule Template is deleted from the Diameter > Mediation > State & Properties page, it is deleted from all other pages at the same time.