About This Guide

This Essentials Guide provides information about:

  • Basic concepts that apply to the key features and abilities of your Oracle Communications Core Session Manager (OCCSM)
  • Information about how to load the OCCSM system software image you want to use and establish basic operating parameters
  • System-level functionality for the OCCSM
  • Configuration of key components of the OCCSM
  • Direction to OCSBC documentation for configuration of cross-product components and features that apply to the OCCSM
  • Operational description, configuration instructions and interface detail on the Oracle Communications Subscriber-aware Load Balancing and Route Management component of the OCCSM

Supported Platforms

Release Version S-CZ8.2.5 includes both the Oracle Core Session Manager (CSM) and Unified Session Manager (USM) products. The Oracle USM is supported on the Acme Packet series platforms. The Oracle CSM is supplied as virtual machine software or as a software-only delivery suitable for operation on server hardware. Refer to sales documentation updates for information further specifying hardware support.

Related Documentation

Version S-CZ8.2.5 software relies on version SCZ820 documentation for some documentation. The following table lists the members that comprise the documentation set for this release:

Document Name Document Description
Release Notes Contains information about the current documentation set release, including new features and management changes.
ACLI Configuration Guide Contains information about the administration and software configuration of the Service Provider Oracle Communications Core Session Manager.
ACLI Reference Guide Contains explanations of how to use the ACLI, as an alphabetical listings and descriptions of all ACLI commands and configuration parameters.
Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide Contains information about Oracle Communications Core Session Manager logs, performance announcements, system management, inventory management, upgrades, working with configurations, and managing backups and archives.
MIB Reference Guide Contains information about Management Information Base (MIBs), Oracle Communication's enterprise MIBs, general trap information, including specific details about standard traps and enterprise traps, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) GET query information (including standard and enterprise SNMP GET query names, object identifier names and numbers, and descriptions), examples of scalar and table objects.
Accounting Guide Contains information about the Oracle Communications Core Session Manager’s accounting support, including details about RADIUS and Diameter accounting.
HDR Resource Guide Contains information about the Oracle Communications Core Session Manager’s Historical Data Recording (HDR) feature. This guide includes HDR configuration and system-wide statistical information.
Administrative Security Essentials Contains information about the Oracle Communications Core Session Manager’s support for its Administrative Security license.
SBC Family Security Guide Contains information about security considerations and best practices from a network and application security perspective for the Oracle Communications Core Session Manager family of products.
Installation and Platform Preparation Guide Contains information about upgrading system images and any pre-boot system provisioning.
Call Traffic Monitoring Guide Contains information about traffic monitoring and packet traces as collected on the system. This guide also includes WebGUI configuration used for the SIP Monitor and Trace application.
HMR Resource Guide Contains information about configuring and using Header Manipulation Rules to manage service traffic.
Hardware documentation is relevant only to the Oracle USM. Refer to your hardware vendor's documentation for information required for Oracle CSM operation.

Revision History

Date Description
August 2019
  • Initial Release
October 2019
  • Corrects CSV Column names for group with show home-subscriber-server data
January 2020
  • Removes SLRM from title
July 2020
  • Adds new content for S-Cz8.2.5m1
December 2020
  • Adds statement emphasizing there are no entitlements required
April 2021
  • Corrects server-name-list parameter instructions to separate multiple values with a space