Table of Contents

• Title and Copyright Information
• My Oracle Support
• Acronyms
• What's New in this Guide
• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Purpose and Scope
  • 1.2 References
• 2 PCA Feature Activation Overview
  • 2.1 Definition of Activation for the PCA Feature
  • 2.2 Preactivation Overview
  • 2.3 Activation Procedures
  • 2.4 Post-Feature Activation Overview
• 3 Feature Deactivation Overview
  • 3.1 Pre-Feature Deactivation Overview
  • 3.2 Feature Deactivation Execution Overview
  • 3.3 Post-Feature Deactivation Overview
• 4 Feature Activation Preparation
  • 4.1 System Topology Check
  • 4.2 Perform Health Check
• 5 Feature Activation
  • 5.1 Pre-Activation Procedures
    • 5.1.1 Health Check for Pre-activation
  • 5.2 Activation Procedures
    • 5.2.1 Feature Activation
    • 5.2.2 PCA Activation on a Newly Added Site
    • 5.2.3 Restart Process
  • 5.3 Post-Activation Procedures
    • 5.3.1 System Health Check After Application Activation on NOAM Servers
    • 5.3.2 System Health Check After Application Activation on SOAM Servers
• 6 Feature Deactivation
  • 6.1 Pre-Deactivation Procedures
    • 6.1.1 Health Check for Pre-Deactivation
  • 6.2 Deactivation Procedures
    • 6.2.1 Feature Deactivation Procedure
    • 6.2.2 Pre PCA Deactivation Steps
      • 6.2.2.1 Deactivate the GLA Application
      • 6.2.2.2 Unconfigure PCA Functions
      • 6.2.2.3 Disable Diameter Connections
      • 6.2.2.4 Disable Application
      • 6.2.2.5 Remove DSR Configuration Data
      • 6.2.2.6 Remove Resource Domain Configuration Data
      • 6.2.2.7 Remove Place Associations Configuration Data
      • 6.2.2.8 Remove Place Configuration Data
    • 6.2.3 PCA Deactivation Procedure
    • 6.2.4 Site Specific PCA Deactivation Procedure
    • 6.2.5 Post PCA Deactivation Steps
      • 6.2.5.1 Move SBR Servers to OOS State
      • 6.2.5.2 Remove SBR Servers from Server Groups
      • 6.2.5.3 Delete Server Groups related to SBR
      • 6.2.5.4 Reboot the Servers
        • 6.2.5.4.1 Reboot the SBR Servers
        • 6.2.5.4.2 Reboot DA-MP Servers
        • 6.2.5.4.3 Reboot SOAM Servers
        • 6.2.5.4.4 Reboot NOAM Servers
    • 6.2.6 Post PCA Deactivation System Health Check
      • 6.2.6.1 System Health Check after PCA Deactivation on NOAM Server
      • 6.2.6.2 System Health Check after Application Deactivation on SOAM Servers
  • 6.3 Post-Deactivation Procedures
    • 6.3.1 Health Check for Post-Feature Deactivation
• 7 Engineering Notes
  • 7.1 Sample Output of Activation (Active NOAM)
  • 7.2 Sample Output of Deactivation (Active NOAM)
• PCA Activation on Active/Standby NOAM and SOAM Server
  • A PCA Activation on Active NOAM
  • B PCA Activation on Standby NOAM
  • C PCA Activation on Active SOAM
  • D PCA Activation on Standby SOAM