1 Administration Overview

About Administering Your Services Gatekeeper Implementation

You perform all management, configuration, and provisioning task on Services Gatekeeper by changing the Java EE level MBeans. Services Gatekeeper includes a variant of the WebLogic Administration Console GUI that you can use to change the MBean attributes and perform the MBean operations. You also have the option to edit the MBeans using a text editor. Once changed, you need to then propagate the changes to all of the relevant managed servers. These tasks includes starting and stopping managed servers, and deploying and undeploying Services Gatekeeper container services and communication services.

The MBean settings are categorized as either "cluster" or "local." If you change a cluster setting, that change is automatically propagated to all instances in the Network Tier cluster. Local settings must be configured on each individual server.

You can change these MBean attributes using the Administration Console provided, or any other MBean editing tool, your own scripts, or Java Management Extension (JMX) tools.

For a complete list of the MBeans and their operations and attributes, see:

• The ”All Classes” section of the (Operations, Administration, and Management) OAM Java API Reference

• The ”All Classes” section of the Java API Reference

• The ”All Classes” section of the Actions Java API Reference

Also see "Understanding the Java Management MBeans" for more information about the Services Gatekeeper MBeans.

Services Gatekeeper Configuration Workflow

This section describes an overall workflow for configuring a Services Gatekeeper implementation.

Before you administer Services Gatekeeper it is also advisable to read through Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper Security Guide, especially the ”Deploying Services Gatekeeper in a Demilitarized Zone” chapter. This chapter will help you understand how to keep your implementation secure, but in doing so also provides you with a good overview of how the Services Gatekeeper components fit together.

1. The first step is to see the "Understanding Services Gatekeeper System Administration Tools" chapter for an overview of the Services Gatekeeper administration tools.

2. The next step is to set up administrative users for the Administration Console to use, see:

   • Managing Users and User Groups

3. For basic Services Gatekeeper administration tasks see:

   • Starting, Stopping, and Administering Servers

   • Managing, Backing Up, and Restoring Services Gatekeeper

4. For Services Gatekeeper administrations tasks as needed, see:

   • Setting Up Geographic Redundancy

   • Configuring Coherence Clusters

   • Understanding and Managing SLA Budgets: This expands on the basic settings used by the PRM portals.

   • Generating Statistics for Transaction Licenses

   • Collecting Alarms Using the SNMP Service

   • Managing and Configuring EDRs, CDRs, and Alarms

   • Resolving EDR Policy Deny Codes

   • Configuring Logging and Tracing

   • Upgrading and Redeploying Communication Services and Service Interceptors

5. For Services Gatekeeper administration tasks if you manually administer and use communication services see:

   • Using Tunneled Parameters

   • Deploying and Administering Communication Services

   • Managing and Configuring Communication Service Storage

   • Configuring Network Node Heartbeats

   • Configuring and Managing Communication Service Traffic

   • Managing and Configuring the Tier Routing Manager

6. For instructions to configure charging with a Diameter Server, see:

   • Charging and Integrating Billing

   • Implementing Diameter Ro Online Charging

   • Implementing Diameter Rf Offline Charging

7. To configure Services Gatekeeper to work with Open Services Architecture (OSA)/Parlay Gateways, see:

   • Managing OSA/Parlay Gateway Connections Using Parlay_Access

8. If you use Native UCP connections see:

   • Managing and Configuring Native UCP Connections

9. If you use Parlay X shortcode mappings:

   • Managing and Configuring Parlay X 2.1 Shortcode Mappings

For details on the individual communication services, see Services Gatekeeper Communication Service Reference Guide.

After the system is configured, provision service providers and applications, as described in the discussion on creating and maintaining service provider and application account in the Services Gatekeeper Portal Developer's Guide.