1. Cloud Native Binding Support Function User's Guide
  2. Configuring Cloud Native Core Binding Support Function Using Cloud Native Core Console

3 Configuring Cloud Native Core Binding Support Function Using Cloud Native Core Console

This chapter describes how to configure different global and service parameters in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core BSF using Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Console.

Cloud Native Core Console Interface

This section provides an overview of the Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core (CNC) Console, which includes an interface to aid in creating global and service parameters in BSF.

You can use BSF integrated with CNC Console only after logging successfully into the CNC Console application. To login successfully into the CNC Console, you need to make the following updates to the hosts file available at the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc location.

In the Windows system, user needs to open the hosts file in the notepad as an Administrator and append the following set of lines at the end:

Example:

10.75.225.189 cncc-iam-ingress-gateway.cncc.svc.cluster.local

10.75.225.189 cncc-core-ingress-gateway.cncc.svc.cluster.local

Note:

The IP Address in the above lines may change when deployment cluster changes.

Save and close the notepad.

Note:

Before logging into CNC Console, it is important to create a CNC user and password. Using this user details, you can login to the CNC Console application. For information on creating a CNC Console user and password, see Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Console Installation Guide.
To login to CNC Console :
  1. Open a web browser and enter the URL: http://cncc-core-ingress-gateway.cncc.svc.cluster.local:port number/ and press Enter.

    The login page opens.

    where, port number is cncc-iam-ingress-port number

    .
  2. Enter the Username and Password.
  3. Click Login. Following screen appears:

    Figure 3-1 CNC Console Interface

    CNC Console Interface

    This is the CNC Console Home Page from where you can navigate to different NF services. To use BSF services integrated with CNC Console, click BSF in the left navigation pane.

General Configurations

You can manage and view the General Configurations from this page.

To edit the General Configurations:
  1. From the navigation menu, under BSF, click General Configurations.

    The General Configurations screen appears.

  2. Click Edit to edit the general configurations.
  3. Enter the following information:
    • Enable Tracing- Specifies whether to enable/disable tracing. By default, this configuration is enabled.
    • Enable Metrics- Specifies whether to enable/disable system metrics. By default, this configuration is enabled.
  4. Click Save.

Configuring BSF Management Service

Perform the following steps to configure the BSF Management Service:
  1. From the navigation menu, under BSF, click Service Configurations, and then click Management Service.

    The Management Service screen appears.

  2. Click Edit to configure the BSF Management Service.
  3. Check the default configuration for the fields available in respective groups and edit as necessary.

    The following table describes the fields along with their valid input values under each group:

    Field Name Description

    Root Log Level

    Indicates the log level of BSF Management Service.

    Default Value: Warn

    Allowed Values: Debug, Information, Warn, Error, Trace, Always

    Server Root URL Specifies the URL of the server root.
    Log Levels
    Logger Name

    Default Value:

    Level

    Indicates the log level of BSF Management Service.

    Default Value: Warn

    Allowed Values: Debug, Information, Warn, Error, Trace, Always

  4. Click Save.

Diameter Configurations

You can manage and view the Diameter Configurations from this page.

Settings

To edit the Settings:
  1. From the navigation menu, click BSF, and then Diameter Configurations, and then Settings.

    The Settings screen appears.

  2. Click Edit to edit the settings.
  3. Enter the following information:

    Timer

    • Reconnect Delay (sec)- Enter the time frame to delay before attempting to reconnect after a connection failure in seconds. The default is 3 seconds.
    • Response Timeout (sec)- Enter the response timeout interval in seconds. The default is 5 seconds.
    • Connection Timeout (sec)- Enter the connection timeout interval in seconds. The default is 3 seconds.
    • WatchDog Interval (sec)- Enter the watchdog interval in seconds. The default is 6 seconds.

    Transport

    • Protocol - TCP/SCTP
  4. Click Save.

Peer Nodes

To edit the Peer Nodes Configurations:
  1. From the navigation menu, click BSF, and then Diameter Configurations, and then Peer Nodes.

    The Peer Nodes screen appears.

  2. Click Add to create peer node. The Create Peer Node screen appears.
  3. Enter the following information:
    • Name- Unique Name of the peer node.
    • Type- Defines which type of diameter service it should take up. The value can be Application function (af), backend, diameter routing agent(dra), ocs, tdf, or udr.
    • Reconnect Limit (sec) -
    • Initiate Connection- Set it to true to initiate a connection for this peer node.
    • Port- Enter the port number. Enter a number from 0 to 65535.
    • Host- Enter the host name. Enter a FQDN, ipv4 or ipv6 address available for establishing diameter transport connections to the peer node .
    • Realm- Enter the realm name, that is, FQDNs to all of that computers that transact diameter traffic.
    • Identity- Enter a identity to define a node in a realm.
  4. Click Save.

    Note:

    You can import and export the Peer Node configurations by clicking on Import and Export on Peer Nodes Configurations screen.

Session Viewer

The Session Viewer displays detailed session information for a specific subscriber. Within the session viewer, you can enter query parameters to render session data for a specific subscriber. This section provides information about viewing the sessions.

To view the sessions:

  1. From the navigation menu, under BSF, click Session Viewer. The Session Viewer page appears.
    1. Enter the value of the following fields in the Address group:
      • IPV4 Address- The list consists of IP addresses in IPv4 format.
      • IPV6 Prefix- The IPv6 Address Prefix
      • IP Domain- The IPv4 address domain identifier.
      • MAC Address- MAC address is formatted as six groups of two hexadecimal digits separated by colons (:) or hyphens (-). For example, in the format hh:hh:hh:hh:hh:hh.
    2. Enter the value of the following fields in the User group:
      • SUPI- Subscription Permanent Identifier
      • GPSI- Generic Public Subscription Identifier
    3. Enter the value of the following fields in the Slice Information group:
      • DNN-
      • S-NSSAI_SST-
      • S-NSSAI_SD-
  3. Click Query. Information about the subscriber session(s) is displayed.

    Following screen capture is an example of Query result:session viewer query result

If session data is not available, the error is displayed along with No session found.