Contents

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Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility

1 About Domain Configuration

• Configuration Overview
  • About Domains
  • About Clusters
  • Locking the Domain Configuration for Changes
  • Domain Configuration and Managed Server Update Modes
    • Updating the Configuration
    • Propagating Changes to the Managed Servers
• Accessing the Domain Configuration
  • About the Administration Server
  • About Service Controller Configuration MBeans
  • About JConsole
  • About the Scripting Engine

2 Using the Administration Console to Configure a Domain

• About the Administration Console
  • Audience For Using The Administration Console
  • Tasks You Can Perform Using the Administration Console
  • Overview of the Administration Console User Interface
  • Making Configuration Changes in a Domain
    • Lock Domain for Changes
    • Commit Changes
    • Discard Changes
  • Switching the Domain Configuration Update Mode

3 Using Service Controller MBeans to Configure a Domain

• About Service Controller MBeans
  • Audience For Using Service Controller MBeans
  • Tasks You Can Perform Using Service Controller MBeans
• Overview of the Configuration MBeans Tree-Structure
  • Administration Server Deployments and Presentation MBeans
  • Service Controller Configuration MBeans
  • Managing the Life Cycle of Domain Configuration Changes
    • Open a Domain for Configuration
    • Select a Domain Configuration Update Mode
    • Close the Domain
    • Specify the Managed Servers Update Mode
    • Manage the Domain Properties
  • Naming Conventions For Service Controller Configuration MBeans
  • Example: Configuring the SS7 Signaling Server Unit for SIGTRAN

4 Using the Scripting Engine to Configure a Domain

• About Using Scripts
  • Audience For Using The Scripting Engine
  • Tasks You Can Perform Using the Scripting Engine
• Script Syntax
  • Setting and Getting Attributes
  • Invoking Operations
  • Using Wildcard Characters in Scripts
  • Creating and Using Variables in Scripts
    • Using AXIA_OPTS to Create Variables
    • Using result_property to Create Variables
    • Entering Undefined Variable Values at a Script Prompt
  • Representing Complex Data Structures
  • Example Script
• Starting the Scripting Engine

5 Managing the Domain Web Server

• About the Domain Web Server
• Starting the Domain Web Server
• Stopping the Domain Web Server

6 Mapping Custom Server Names

• About Server Names
• Mapping Custom Server Names to Service Controller Standard Names
• Servers MBean
• Server MBean

7 Configuring Coherence

• About Coherence
• Setting Up IP Multicast
• Setting Up IP Unicast
• Configuring Cluster Node Death Detection Properties
  • Automatic Server Shutdown
  • Data Cache Restart

8 Starting and Stopping the Administration Server

• Starting and Stopping the Administration Server
  • Starting the Administration Server
  • Logging In to the Administration Console
  • Stopping the Administration Server
  • About Setting Up Security for the Administration Server

9 Setting Up Servers in Signaling and Processing Domains

• Setting Up Servers Using the Administration Console
  • Adding a Server to a Domain
  • Removing a Server from a Domain
• Setting Up Servers with Java MBeans
  • Adding a Server to a Domain
  • Removing a Server from a Domain

10 Starting and Stopping Processing and Signaling Servers

• Starting a Processing Server or a Signaling Server
• Stopping a Processing Server or a Signaling Server
  • Stopping a Server with Java MBeans
  • Stopping a Server with the Scripting Engine

11 Starting and Stopping the SS7 Process

• About the SS7 Process
• Starting the SS7 Process for SIGTRAN
• Stopping the SS7 Process

12 Maintaining Oracle Communications Service Controller

• Backing Up Your Installation
  • Backing Up a Processing Server or a Signaling Server
  • Backing Up an Administration Client
  • Backing Up a Domain Configuration
  • Backing Up Oracle Home
• Archiving and Cleaning Up Log Files
• About Patches and Patch Sets
• Managing Domain Bundles
  • Managing Bundles with the Administration Console
    • Installing a Bundle
    • Uninstalling a Bundle
    • Starting a Bundle
    • Stopping a Bundle
  • Managing Bundles with the DeploymentServiceMBean

13 Life Cycle of Processing Servers and Signaling Servers

• Processing and Signaling Server Life Cycle
• Life Cycle Management MBeans
• ManagementAgentMBean

14 Using the Centralized Logging Server

• Installing the Logging Server
• Configuring the Logging Server
• Starting the Logging Server
• Configuring Managed Servers (pn/ssu)
• Starting the Managed Servers
• Collecting pn/ssu Server Logs with the Logging Server

15 Monitoring Service Controller Using Runtime MBeans

• Introduction to Service Controller Monitoring
• Understanding Service Controller Runtime MBeans
  • Service Controller Runtime MBeans Organization
  • Service Controller Runtime MBean Instantiation
  • Service Controller Runtime MBean Object Names
• Accessing Service Controller Runtime MBeans
• Runtime MBeans Reference
• Service Controller Measurements
  • Counters, Gauges, TPSs and Statuses
    • Counters
    • TPSs
    • Gauges
    • Statuses
  • Module-Level Measurements and Tier-Level Measurements
• Understanding Notifications
  • Specifying Notification Criteria for Counters and TPSs
  • Specifying Notification Criteria for Gauges
  • Specifying Notification Criteria for Statuses
  • Notification Structure
  • Receiving Notification Clearing
• Registering for Notifications
• Identifying Key Performance Indicators
• Configuring Service Controller Monitoring
  • Accessing the Monitoring Configuration Screen
  • General
  • State Changed Notifications
  • Threshold Crossed Notifications

16 Monitoring Service Controller Using the Scripting Engine

• Monitor Multiple Managed Server from One Scripting Engine
• Enabling the Scripting Daemon Functions
  • Sample Monitoring XML Output
  • Display the Monitoring Results in a Chart

17 Tracing Sessions

• About Tracing Sessions
• About the Format of the Search String
  • SIP
  • SMPP
  • CAP
  • WIN
  • AIN
  • MAP ANSI
  • Diameter
• About Session Tracing Modes
  • Internal Events Tracing
  • Full Session Tracing
• Tracing a Session

18 Remote Monitoring Service Controller with SNMP

• About Service Controller SNMP
• About the Service Controller MIBs
• About Service Controller SNMP Object Identifiers
• Service Controller Managed Objects
• Configuring SNMP with the Administration Console
  • Steps for Creating a JMX-based SNMP Trap
  • Accessing SNMP Configuration Settings
  • Configuring the SNMP Agent
  • Configuring SNMP Access Control Restrictions
  • Configuring SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c Trap Destinations
  • Configuring SNMPv3 Trap Destinations
  • Configuring JMX Notification Mappings
  • Examples of JMX Notification Types
  • JMX Notifications Shown in JConsole

19 Viewing Service Controller SDRs

• Understanding Service Data Records
• Configuring SDR Logging
  • Setting the Maximum File Size and Number of Files
  • Disabling Logging of SDRs
• Service Data Record Format
  • IM-Generated Tags

20 Implementing Overload Protection

• About Overload Protection
  • Using Gauges and Counters as Key Overload Indicators
    • About System and Module Levels of Overload Protection
    • Understanding the Essential Steps for Configuring Overload Protection
• Configuring Key Overload Indicators
  • Configuring Threshold Crossed Notifications Rules
  • Specifying Your Key Overload Indicators
  • Configuring General Monitoring Parameters
  • Configuring the Overload Protection Methods

21 Implementing the Keep Alive Session Timer

• Using the keepAliveSessionDuration Timer

A System Administrator's Reference

• Details for Administration Server
  • Authentication Methods
    • Administration Console
    • Remote JMX-Client
    • Scripting Engine
  • Directory Structure and Contents for the Administration Server
  • Start Scripts
  • Property Files for the Administration Clients
• Details for Processing Servers and Signaling Servers
  • Directory Contents and Structure for Processing Servers and a Signaling Servers
  • Properties File for Managed Servers
• Details for Domains
  • Directory Contents and Structure for Domains
• Environment Variables
• System Properties
• Directory Contents and Structure for a Domain Configuration
• Directory Structure and Contents for Oracle Universal Installer
• Safe Services