Policy Features

2 Policy Features

This chapter lists the added or updated features in release 24.1.x. For more information about the features, see Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Converged Policy User Guide.

Release 24.1.0

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Converged Policy 24.1.0 has been updated with the following enhancements:

Support for cnDBTier Functionalities in CNC Console: With this enhancement, cnDBTier functionalities are integrated into the CNC Console, and users can view specific cnDBTier statuses on the CNC Console. For more information, see "Support for cnDBTier Functionalities in CNC Console" in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Converged Policy User Guide.
Enhancement to PRE Metrics: With this enhancement, Policy blocks have been added to PRE to evaluate policy processing time, policy block execution counter, and policy blocks execution time. For more information, see "Enhancement to PRE Metrics" in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Converged Policy User Guide.
Support for Handling Reduced Capability Devices: Policy supports the handling of requests from reduced capability devices (RedCap) to support IoT ecosystem. Policy identifies the incoming request from the RedCap devices and interacts with PRE to make appropriate decisions for the reduced capability devices. Currently, this feature is implemented only for create, update, update notify, and delete call flows for SM service. For more information, see "Support for Handling Reduced Capability Devices" section in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Converged Policy User Guide.
Support for Automated PKI Integration: Policy supports automation of certificate lifecycle management in integration with Oracle Communications Certificate Manager (OCCM). This allows to automatically create, renew, and delete certificates for a given CA, with the possibility to track previously created certificates and renew/delete them when required. For more information, see "Support for Automated Certificate Lifecycle Management" section in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Converged Policy User Guide.
Support for End-to-End Log Identifier across Policy Services: This feature allows to use a unique identifier to every log message, which can be used to identify the set of logs belonging to a given session across all Policy services. Currently, this feature is implemented only for SM service call flows. For more information, see "Support for Unique Log Identifier Across Policy Services" section in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Converged Policy User Guide.
Trigger TerminateNotify to SMF During Stale Session Cleanup: SM Service sends TerminateNotify to SMF when it detects and cleans up duplicate requests of SM PDU Session Create (Collision Detection) and stale SMPolicyAssociation (Max TTL reached for session). For more information, see "Sending Terminate Notify to SMF" under "Stale Session Handling" section in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Converged Policy User Guide.
Audit Support for Usage Monitoring Service: Policy supports stale session detection and cleanup in Usage Monitoring service with the support of Audit service. It identifies the stale sessions based on lastAccessTime. For more information, see "Stale Session Detection and Handling in Usage Monitoring Service" under "Stale Session Handling" section in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Converged Policy User Guide.
PCF Support for ME-XX String in Server Header from CHF: PCF ignores the server header if a differently formatted value is inserted in the header alongside the 3GPP supported ones. This impacts the session retry strategy. This feature enables PCF core (SM/AM/UE) services to ignore the custom server header values and continue considering the 3GPP standard and valid SCP, SEPP or other NF type server headers format inserted in the header. For more information, see "PCF Support for ME-XX String in Server Header from CHF" section in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Converged Policy User Guide.
Sy SLR Enhancements for Signaling Updates and UDR Notification: This feature enables cnPCRF and cnPolicy to fetche OCS counter status over Sy reference point in a synchronous mode on receiving a signaling update or a UDR notification. For more information, see "Sy SLR Enhancements for Signaling Updates and UDR Notification" section in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Converged Policy User Guide.
Binding Service Pod Congestion Control: Binding service supports Congestion Control mechanism that helps to handle heavy traffic of incoming requests. It considers every incoming request and decides to either reject or accept it based on a defined request priority and the status of service congestion level. For more information, see "Binding Service Pod Congestion Control" section in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Converged Policy User Guide.
Enhancement to PCF Resiliency: PCF is enhanced to provide the mechanism in consumer service pods to cache the last successful producer pod information and use it when the subsequent producer pod discovery results in failure. Hence, the inter service communication continues to run even when the communication between the Kubernetes services and pods is down.

Policy Automated Testing Suite (ATS)

Policy ATS 24.1.0 has been updated with the following enhancements:

MultiSelection Capability for Features and Scenarios: ATS allows users to select and run single or multiple features and scenarios by selecting a check box for the corresponding features or scenarios. For more information, see the "Multiselection Capability for Features and Scenarios" section in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Automated Testing Suite Guide.
Individual Stage Group Selection: This feature allows users to select and execute a single or multiple stages or groups by selecting a check box for the corresponding stage or group. For more information, see "Individual Stage Group Selection" section in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Automated Test Suite Guide.