Contents

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About This Guide

• My Oracle Support

1 Introduction to the Core Session Manager, and the Session Load Balancer and Route Manager S-CZ8.2.5

• New Features
• Platform Support
• Virtual Machine Platform Resources
• Image Files and Boot Files
• Upgrade Information
  • Upgrade Checklist
  • Upgrade and Downgrade Caveats
• System Capacities
• Coproduct Support
• Documentation Changes
• Behavioral Changes
• Patches Included in This Release

2 Oracle Communications Core Session Manager Basics

• Oracle Communications Core Session Manager and IMS
• Session Load Balancer and Route Manager Overview
• Elements of Oracle Communications Core Session Manager and SLRM Configuration
• High Availability

3 Oracle CSM Supporting the IMS Core

• General Description
• Message Authentication for SIP Requests
• User Authorization
  • UAR/UAA Transaction
• SIP Digest User Authentication
  • Authentication via MAR/MAA
  • SIP Authentication Challenge
    • Authentication Header Elements
  • SIP Authentication Response
  • Oracle Communications Core Session Manager Authentication Check
• IMS-AKA Support
  • Authentication Sequence - Registration
  • Outside the Core
  • Authentication Success
  • Authentication Failure
    • Network Authentication Failure
    • User Authentication Failure
  • Synchronization
  • Optional IMS-AKA Configuration
    • home subscriber server
• S-CSCF Selection Based on Capabilities
  • Server-Capabilities AVP
  • Selection Process without SLRM
  • Selection Process with an SLRM
  • ACLI Instructions
    • Configuring the server-capabilities-table
    • Configuring the server-capabilities-list
• Oracle Communications Core Session Manager as Registrar
  • New Registration
  • Registration Response with the Authentication-info Header
  • Registration Handling for Online and Offline Operation Modes
  • Handling Barred PUIDs
  • Releasing Unregistered Users
  • Configurable Response to Timed-Out OPTIONS Messages
  • Limiting REGISTER CDR Generation
• Limiting AOR Contacts
• HSS Server Assignment
  • Server Assignment Messages
    • Server-Assignment-Response
  • Register Refresh
    • Core-side SAR Lifetime
  • Entry Unregistration
• User Registration based on Reg-ID and Instance-ID (RFC 5626)
  • reREGISTER Example
  • Outbound Registration Binding Processing
  • Wildcarded PUID Support
• ACLI Instructions
  • home subscriber server
  • SIP Authentication Profile
  • SIP Interface
  • SIP Registrar
  • Maximum Number of Contacts
  • Response to Exceeding Maximum Contacts
• SIP Registration Event Package Support
  • SUBSCRIBE Processing
  • SUBSCRIBE REFRESH Requests
  • Reg Event NOTIFY Messages
  • Reducing NOTIFY Traffic
  • Configuring Registration Event Package
  • Registration Event Profile Configuration
    • Optional NOTIFY Refresh Frequency
• Message Routing
  • Registrar Routing
    • LIR/LIA Transaction
  • Default Egress Realm
  • Routing Based on UA Capabilities
    • UE Capabilities
    • Registering Capabilities at the Oracle Communications Core Session Manager
    • Preferential Routing
    • Explicit Feature Preference
    • The “require” and explicit Feature Tag Parameters
    • Implicit Feature Preference
  • ACLI Instructions
    • Configuring the SIP Registrar's Routing Precedence
    • Home Subscriber Server
• Tel-URI Resolution
  • Number Lookup Triggers
  • Actions Based on Lookup Results
  • Primary and Secondary ENUM Configuration
• HSS Initiated User Profile Changes
• Other Diameter Cx Configuration
  • Host and Realm AVP Configuration for Cx
  • ACLI Instructions
• Initial Filter Criteria (IFC)
  • IFC Evaluation
  • SIP Registration
  • SIP Call
    • Preserving an Original Dialog Indicator
    • Configuring ODI Preservation
  • Evaluating Session Case in the P-Served-User Header
  • Supported Sessioncase and Registration State
    • Originating request - Registered User
    • Originating request - Unregistered User
    • Terminating Requests - Registered User
    • Terminating Requests - Unregistered User
  • Third Party Registration for an Implicit Registration Set
  • TEL URI Replacement with SIP URI in R-URI to AS
    • TEL URI Replacement with SIP URI in R-URI to AS Configuration
  • Additional Options
• IFC Support for Unregistered Users
  • UE-terminating requests to an unregistered user
    • Terminating UA - Unregistered
    • Terminating UA - Unregistered
    • Terminating UA - Not Registered, Served by other Oracle Communications Core Session Manager
    • UE Subsequent Registration
  • Caching the Downloaded IFC
  • Optimizing IFC Updates
  • Push Profile Request (PPR) updates
• ACLI Instructions
  • SIP Registrar
  • SIP Registrar
• Shared and Default iFCs
  • SiFC Usage
  • DiFC Usage
  • SiFC/DiFC File Example
  • iFC Execution Order
  • Refreshing SiFC and DiFC Files
  • SiFC and DiFC Configuration
• Distinct and Wildcarded Public Service Identity (PSI) Support
• Configuring SIP Ping OPTIONS Support
• Redundancy and Load Balancing with HSS Servers
  • About HSS Groups
  • Connection Failure Detection
    • Configuring HSS Groups
• Diameter Message Manipulations
  • Manipulation Rule
    • Naming Diameter Manipulations
    • Message Based Testing
  • AVP Search Value
    • Reserved Keywords
  • Actions on Found Match Value
    • none
    • add
    • delete
    • replace
    • store
    • diameter-manip
    • find-replace-all
    • group-manip
  • AVP Header Manipulation
    • AVP Flag Manipulation
    • vendor-id Manipulation
  • Multi-instance AVP Manipulation
  • ACLI Instructions
    • Diameter Manipulation
    • Manipulation Rule
    • AVP Header Manipulation
    • Applying the Manipulation
  • Diameter Manipulation Example - Supported Features AVP

4 The Session Load Balancer and Route Manager

• Functional Overview
  • Product Functional Matrix
  • Physical Deployment
    • Active-Active Redundancy
    • SLRM-Supported SIP Interfaces
  • Oracle CSM's Role as S-CSCF
  • Logical Deployment
    • SLRM Core
    • Cluster Configuration
• SLRM Operation
  • Establishing the Load Balance Pool
  • Balancing
  • Re-balancing
• I-CSCF Operation
• Memory and CPU Overload Protection
• The Sc Interface
  • Sc Interface Messages
    • Capabilities Exchange Messages
    • Device Watchdog Messages
    • Service Association Messages
    • Core Registration Messages
  • Sc Interface Messaging
  • Sc Interface Response Codes
  • Proprietary SLRM AVP Descriptions
    • Req-Type AVP
    • Service-Cluster-Id AVP
    • Pct-Used-CPU AVP
    • Pct-Used-Mem AVP
    • EP-Srv-Cnt AVP
    • Proto-Ver AVP
    • Max-EPs-Supp AVP
    • Core-Reg-Type AVP
    • Ims-Core AVP
    • Srv-Assoc-ID AVP
    • Srv-Assoc-Exp
    • Core-Reg-Exp AVP
    • Soft-Ver AVP
    • Grouped AVPs
      • Core-Info AVP
      • Srv-Info AVP
• SLRM Configuration
  • set-component-type
  • lb-interface
  • lb-core-config
• Oracle CSM Configuration
  • service-cluster-id
  • lb-cfg
  • ims-core and lb-list
• Releasing Users
  • release-user
• Obtaining SLRM-Related Information
  • display-component-type
  • show load-balancer
  • show sipd endpoint-ip
  • SLRM MIB Objects and Traps
    • Oracle Communications System Management MIB (ap-corelb.mib)
    • SLRM Traps

5 Third Party Registration

• Third Party Registrations via iFCs
  • Embedded REGISTER
• ACLI Instructions - Third Party Registration via iFCs
  • Session Agent
  • SIP Registrar
• Third Party Registration via ACLI Configuration
  • Third Party Registration Server States
  • Third Party Registration Expiration
  • Defining Third Party Servers
• ACLI Instructions - Third Party Server Configuration
  • Third Party Registrar
  • SIP Registrar

6 References and Debugging

• ACLI Configuration Parameters
  • sip-registrar
    • Parameters
    • Path
  • sip-authentication-profile
    • Parameters
    • Path
  • home-subscriber-server
    • Parameters
    • Path
  • third-party-regs
    • Parameters
    • Path
  • enum-config
    • Parameters
    • Path
  • ifc-profile
    • Parameters
    • Path
  • regevent-notification-profile
    • Parameters
    • Path
  • hss-group
    • Parameters
• Making Personal Data in Messaging Sent to OCOM Anonymous
  • Enabling Anonymization of Information Sent to OCOM
• HDR Groups on HSS Data
  • diam-stats-summary
  • diam-stats-detail
  • diam-stats-per-hss
• SNMP MIBs and Traps
• Acme Packet License MIB (ap-license.mib)
• Acme Packet System Management MIB (ap-smgmt.mib)
  • Enterprise Traps
• OCCSM Show Commands
  • show sipd endpoint-ip
  • show sipd third-party
  • show sipd local-subscription
  • show registration
  • show home-subscriber-server
  • show http-server
• Verify Config
  • sip authentication profile (CX)
    • Error
  • sip authentication profile (ENUM)
    • Error
  • sip authentication profile (Local)
  • sip-registrar
    • Error
  • sip-registrar
    • Error
• Resource Utilization
  • CPU Overload Protection
  • Heap Utilization

A Oracle Sc Interface Support

• Sc Interface and Command Codes
• Diameter AVP Notation
• Table Explanation
• CER Message Format
• CEA Message Format
• DWR Message Format
• DWA Message Format
• SVR Message Format
• SVA Message Format
• CRR Message Format
• CRA Message Format
• Proprietary Grouped AVP Format
  • Core-Info AVP
  • Service-Info AVP Format

B CSM and SLRM Base Configuration Elements

• CSM Base Configuration Elements
• SLRM Base Configuration Elements

C Caveats and Known Issues

• Known Issues
• Caveats and Limitations