Setting Congestion Options

Use this task to set the Congestion Options on the Active NOAM:

• Alarm Thresholds for the Policy and Charging Server in Congestion onset and abatement alarm for Critical, Major, and Minor severities.
• Message Throttling Rules for discarding Session Creation, Update, and Terminate Requests for Congestion Levels 1, 2, and 3.

1. Click Policy and Charging, and then Configuration, and then Congestion Options.
2. Enter changes for the Alarm Thresholds.
3. Enter changes for the Message Throttling Rules.
4. Click:
   • Apply to save the Congestion Options changes and refresh the screen to show the changes.
   • Cancel to discard the changes and refresh the screen.
   If Apply is clicked and any of several conditions exist, an error message appears:

   • Any fields contain a value that contains invalid characters or is out of the allowed range.
   • Any required field is empty (not entered).
   • A Major Alarm Onset Threshold value is greater than the corresponding Critical Alarm Onset Threshold.
   • A Minor Alarm Onset Threshold value is greater than the corresponding Major Alarm Onset Threshold.
   • An Alarm Abatement Threshold value is greater than the corresponding Alarm Onset Threshold of a particular severity.