Introduction

This chapter describes:

• Policy and Charging Maintenance describes maintenance and status data that is maintained by the Policy and Charging application and by Policy and Charging DA-MPs.
  On the Policy and Charging > Maintenance screens, the user can:

  • Define and execute a Policy Database Query
• Diameter Maintenance and Status Data for Components, DSR Applications, and DA-MPs describes maintenance and status information that is maintained by the Diameter Routing Function and the Diameter Transport Function for the Diameter Configuration components that are used to make egress Request message routing decisions.
  The Diameter > Maintenance screens include status information for:

  • Peer Nodes
  • Connections
  • DSR Applications (including Policy and Charging)
  • DA-MPs
• Alarms, KPIs, and Measurements describes Policy and Charging-specific database alarms, and indicates the location of descriptions of PCA and SBR alarms, KPIs, and measurements.
• PCA Data Auditing describes the auditing of the Session and Binding databases.
• Overload Management describes overload controls and load shedding and for PCA and SBR.
• Backup and Restore for Policy and Charging Configuration Data describes the OAM database backup and restore of Policy and Charging configuration data.