1 Introduction

This document describes procedures for disaster recovery for Diameter Signaling Router (DSR) (3-tier deployments). This includes recovery of partial or a complete loss of one or more DSR servers. The audience for this document includes GPS groups, such as software engineering, product verification, documentation, and customer service including software operations and first office application. Running this procedure also involves referring to and running procedures in existing support documents.

The components dependent on DSR may need to be recovered as well, for example SDS and IDIH.

Note:

Failures may occur from the host or infrastructure level. Different infrastructures have different approaches to recover VMs, which is not covered in this document. For example, VMware has a vMotion feature, which can migrate VM from one host to another. Any such Infrastructure or Hypervisor related migrations or disaster recovery scenarios are out of scope of this document. This document covers the DR scenarios within the DSR application.

1.1 References

Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router Cloud Installation Guide

Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router or Subscriber Database Server NOAM Failover Users Guide

Diameter Signaling Router Policy and Charging Application Feature Activation Guide

1.2 Acronyms

An alphabetized list of acronyms used in the document.

Table 1-1 Acronyms

Acronyms Definition
BIOS Basic Input Output System
CD Compact Disk
DSR Diameter Signaling Router
ESXi Elastic Sky X Integrated
FABR Full Address Based Resolution
iDIH Integrated Diameter Intelligence Hub
IPFE IP Front End
IWF Inter Working Function
NAPD Network Architecture Planning Diagram
NOAM Network Operations, Administration & Maintenance
OS Operating System
OVA Open Virtualization Appliance
OVM-M Oracle Virtual Machine Manager
OVM-S Oracle Virtual Machine Server
PDRA Policy Diameter Routing Agent
PCA Policy and Charging Application
RBAR Range Based Address Resolution
SAN Storage Area Network
SFTP Secure File Transfer Protocol
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SOAM Systems Operations, Administration & Maintenance
TPD Tekelec Platform Distribution
VM Virtual Machine
vSTP Virtual Signaling Transfer Point

1.3 Terminology

Table 1-2 Terminology

Procedure Terminology
Base Software Base software includes Deploying the VM image.
Failed Server A failed server in Disaster Recovery context refers to a VM that has suffered partial or complete software failure to the extent that it cannot restart or be returned to normal operation and requires intrusive activities to reinstall the software.
Software Centric The business practice of delivering an Oracle software product, while relying upon the customer to procure the requisite hardware components. Oracle provides the hardware specifications, but doesn’t provide the hardware or hardware firmware, and isn’t responsible for hardware installation, configuration, or maintenance.
Enablement The business practice of providing support services (hardware, software, documentation, etc) that enables third party entity to install, configure, and maintain Oracle products for Oracle customers.

1.4 Optional Features

Table 1-3 Optional Features

Feature Document
Diameter Mediation DSR Cloud installation Procedure
Full Address Based Resolution (FABR) DSR FABR Feature Activation Procedure
Range Based Address Resolution (RBAR) DSR RBAR Feature Activation Procedure
Map-Diameter Interworking (MAP-IWF) DSR MAP-Diameter IWF Feature Activation Procedure
Policy and Charging Application (PCA) DSR PCA Feature Activation
Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) DSR Security Guide