Installing and Configuring IP Address Manager and IP Address Administration Center

12 Installing and Configuring IP Address Manager and IP Address Administration Center

This chapter describes how to install Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) IP Address Manager and IP Address Administration Center and how to configure and customize IP Address Manager.

For an overview of IP Address Manager and IP Address Administration Center, see "About IP Address Manager".

Installing IP Address Manager

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If you already installed the product, you must uninstall its features before reinstalling them.

To install IP Address Manager, see "Installing Individual BRM Components" in BRM Installation Guide

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You should verify that the IP Address Manager Facilities Modules (FMs) were added to the Connection Manager (CM) configuration file.

Installing IP Address Administration Center

To install IP Address Administration Center, see "Installing Individual BRM Clients" in BRM Installation Guide.

Configuring IP Address Manager

After installing the IP Address Manager software, you will probably want to configure it to meet your business needs. This section explains the tasks necessary to configure IP Address Manager.

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You can perform these tasks in any order, but you must install IP Address Manager first.

You can define and use new IP address and APN states. This requires two procedures: defining and loading the state transition model, and loading the localized state names. See "Customizing APN Device States".
You can define new service and account associations for IP address and APNs. See "Customizing IP Address and APN Service Association Lists".

Customizing IP Address and APN Device Life Cycles

This section explains how to control device life cycles by changing the default IP address and APN device states to meet your business needs. For a list of the default states and their relationships, see "About IP and APN Device States". You can change the state names and their relationships to each other. This section explains how to create new IP address and APN device states and state relationships. For information on changing the IP Address Manager opcodes to set these new states, see BRM Opcode Guide.

Customizing IP Address Device States

Customizing IP address states includes adding or changing the device states, their names, and their relationships. These tasks are explained in the sections below.

Adding or Changing IP Address States

To customize device states, edit the pin_device_state_ip file in BRM_home/sys/data/config, and then load it by running the load_pin_device_state utility. See "Defining the Device Life Cycle" in BRM Developer's Guide.

Adding or Changing Device State Names

When you customize device states, you need to add the new device state name to the list of device states that is displayed in IP Address Administration Center. To do so, you edit the ip_device_states.en_US sample file in the BRM_home/sys/msgs/ipdevicestates directory. You then use the load_localized_strings utility to load the contents of the file into the /strings objects. See "load_localized_strings" in BRM Developer's Guide.

Customizing APN Device States

Customizing an APN device state includes adding or changing the device states, their names, and their relationships. These tasks are explained in the sections below.

Adding or Changing Device States

To add or change device states, edit the pin_device_state_apn file in BRM_home/sys/data/config, and then load it by running the load_pin_device_state utility. See "Defining the Device Life Cycle" in BRM Developer's Guide.

Adding or Changing Device State Names

When you customize device states, you need to add the new device state names to the list displayed in IP Address Administration Center. To do so, you edit the apn_device_states.en_US sample file in the BRM_home/sys/msgs/apndevicestates directory. You then use the load_localized_strings utility to load the contents of the file into the /strings objects. See "load_localized_strings" in BRM Developer's Guide.

Customizing IP Address and APN Service Association Lists

The following sections explain how to customize the lists of acceptable service and account associations.

Customizing the IP Service Association List

IP Address Manager allows you to associate services with an IP address. To do so, edit the BRM_home/sys/data/config/pin_device_permit_map_ip file and then load it into the database by running the BRM_home/bin/load_pin_device_permit_map utility.

For more information, see "Defining Device-to-Service Associations" and "load_pin_device_permit_map" in BRM Developer's Guide.

Customizing the APN Service Association List

You can customize which services are allowed to be associated with IP address devices. To do so, edit the BRM_home/sys/data/config/pin_device_permit_map_apn file and then load it into the database by running the BRM_home/bin/load_pin_device_permit_map utility.

For more information, see "Defining Device-to-Service Associations" and "load_pin_device_permit_map in BRM Developer's Guide.

Uninstalling IP Address Manager

To uninstall IP Address Manager, see "Uninstalling Optional Components" in BRM Installation Guide.