About This Guide

The Security Shield Installation and Maintenance Guide provides information about the components of the Oracle® Communications Security Shield Cloud Service (Security Shield) that you need to install and manage. The guide explains each component along with the high-level installation process and detailed installation instructions. The guide also explains the related maintenance and management operations.

Security Shield Operations Documented in this Guide

Establishing an Oracle Cloud account and obtaining the Security Shield subscription
Downloading the Security Shield software
Installing and managing the Cloud Communications Service
Configuring Security Shield on the Oracle Communications Session Border Controller

Documentation Set

The following table describes the documents included in the Oracle® Communications Security Shield Cloud Service (Security Shield) documentation set.

Security Shield Installation and Maintenance Guide

Contains conceptual and procedural information for installing and maintaining the Security Shield.

Security Shield Security and Privacy Guide

Contains conceptual and procedural information for securing the Security Shield operations.

Security Shield User's Guide

Contains the product overview along with conceptual and procedural information about using the Security Shield Dashboard.

Security Shield What's New

Contains information about the release including new features, caveats, known issues, and limitations.

Related Documentation

The following list describes related documentation for the Oracle® Communications Security Shield Cloud Service (Security Shield). You can find the listed documents on http://docs.oracle.com/en/industries/communications/ in the "Session Border Controller Documentation" section.

ACLI Configuration Guide

Contains information about the administration and software configuration of the Oracle Communications Session Border Controller.

ACLI Reference Guide

Contains explanations of how to use the ACLI, as an alphabetical listings and descriptions of all ACLI commands and configuration parameters.

Call Traffic Monitoring Guide

Contains information about traffic monitoring and packet traces as collected on the system. This guide also includes Web GUI configuration used for the SIP Monitor and Trace application.

Installation and Platform Preparation Guide

Contains conceptual and procedural information for system provisioning, software installations, and upgrades.

Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide

Contains information about Oracle Communications Session Border Controller logs, performance announcements, system management, inventory management, upgrades, working with configurations, and managing backups and archives.

History

The following table provides the revision history for this document. Oracle updates the documentation set with each software release. When one or more of the documents requires an update between software releases, Oracle issues an update limited to the affected documents.

Dates	Release Numbers and Revisions
June 2020	20.0.0.0.0
July 2020	20.1.0.0.0
September 2020	Documentation Update Adds the Note about using Sp Ls to the "Add the Security Shield SPL Plug-in" topic.
October 2020	20.2.0.0.0
October 2020	Documentation Update Updates the SPL entry for ocss-client-config=httpClientConfigName in the "Configure the Oracle Session Border Controller for the Security Shield Service" topic.
December 2020	Documentation Update Clarifies the Operating System requirement for the Policy Decision Engine and Cloud Communication Service.
February 2021	20.3.0.0.0
March 2021	Documentation Update Adds a cross reference to the "CCS Configuration Behind NAT or a Firewall" topic in the Security Shield Security and Privacy Guide from the "Install, Configure, and Activate the Cloud Communication Service" topic in this guide.
April 2021	Documentation Update Adds the Note that the Cloud Communication Service (CCS) does not support simultaneous use of the same CCS instance to the "Install, Configure, and Activate the Cloud Communication Service" topic.
June 2021	21.0.0.0.0
August 2021	21.1.0.0.0
November 2021	21.2.0.0.0
February 2022	21.3.0.0.0
May 2022	22.0.0.0.0
August 2022	22.1.0.0.0
September 2022	Updates the procedure in the "Add the Security Shield SPL Plug-in" topic.
February 2023	23.0.0.0.0
May 2023	23.1.0.0.0 Updates the list of trusted Certificate Authorities in Appendix C.
August 2023	23.2.0.0.0
September 2023	Documentation update Updates the "Install, Configure, and Activate the Cloud Communication Service", "Deactivate the Cloud Communication Service", and "Update the Cloud Communication Service" topics to exclude Podman.
November 2023	23.3.0.0.0
December 2023	23.3.0.0.0 Updates the following topics to include Podman for Oracle Linux 8: Install, Configure, and Activate the Cloud Communication Service Deactivate the Cloud Communication Service Update the Cloud Communication Service
February 2024	24.0.0.0.0

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