Ud Client

This menu provides access to GUI pages that control the Ud client feature. This feature uses the Ud interface, a database access protocol that defines and controls connections to communicate between the UDR system (the UD client) and a third-party subscriber database (stored on a Ud server). UDR uses both LDAP (an access protocol) and SOAP (a messaging protocol) to communicate with this subscriber database - LDAP to query the database for subscriber information, and SOAP to subscribe to the database and be notified of subscriber changes.

GUI options on this menu include:

• Ud Client Options: controls how the Ud client feature works when provisioning or signaling traffic is received.
• Ud Remote Server Configuration: configures Ud server connection details.
• Ud Client Key Details: configures the LDAP search key mapping details and their mapping to internal subscriber profile fields.
• Ud Client Attribute Map SEC: defines how subscriber attributes stored in the Ud server database are mapped to subscriber profile fields stored in the user data repository.

As part of the Ud client feature, the Maintenance > Ud Client > Connection Status page displays the status of the LDAP and SOAP connections between the Ud client and Ud server. These statuses are only displayed if the Ud client feature is enabled and Ud remote server configuration has been performed. If the SOAP connection is disabled, the only information that appears on this page for the SOAP connection is the admin state of Disabled. The connection status information is refreshed each time this page is accessed. This page also allows the LDAP and SOAP connections to be enabled or disabled once the Ud client feature is enabled and configured.