1. Configuration Guide
  2. About this Guide

About this Guide

The ACLI Configuration Guide provides information about:

  • Basic concepts that apply to the key features and abilities of your Oracle Communications Session Border Controller
  • Information about how to load the Oracle Communications Session Border Controller system software image you want to use and establish basic operating parameters
  • System-level functionality for the Oracle Communications Session Border Controller
  • Configuration of all components of the Oracle Communications Session Border Controller

Documentation Set

The following table describes the documentation set for this release:

Document Name Document Description
Acme Packet 3900 Hardware Installation Guide Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 3900.
Acme Packet 4600 Hardware Installation Guide Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 4600.
Acme Packet 6100 Hardware Installation Guide Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 6100.
Acme Packet 6300 Hardware Installation Guide Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 6300.
Acme Packet 6350 Hardware Installation Guide Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 6350.
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 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.
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.
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 Session Border Controller’s accounting support, including details about RADIUS and Diameter accounting.
HDR Resource Guide Contains information about the Oracle Communications Session Border Controller’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 Session Border Controller’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 Session Border Controller 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.
TSCF SDK Guide Contains information about the client-side SDK that facilitates the creation of secure tunnels between a client application and the TSCF of the OCSBC.
REST API Guide Contains information about the supported REST APIs and how to use the REST API interface.

Revision History

Date Description
December 2018
  • Initial release
  • Adds availability qualification for fragment-msg-bandwidth
January 2019
  • Updated the "Small Footprint VNF" topic with the correct spec for required RAM.
February 2019
  • Updates "Transcodable Codec Details" topic in Transcoding chapter to avoid platform confusion.
  • Updates "Supported Codecs for Pooled Transcoding" to include the EVS codec.
  • Updates "RTP TTL" for accuracy.
  • Removes HMR topics duplicated in the Header Manipulation Rules Resource Guide.
  • Updates "Incremental QoS Updates" to remove inaccurate platform support information.
March 2019
  • Removes "Codec Royalty Licensing" section in Transcoding chapter.
  • Updates "SIP PRACK Interworking" section for accuracy.
May 2019
  • Clarifies explanation of Diversion and History-info headers
  • Adds add-sdp-baseBehavior option
  • Adds fix-missing-m-lines option
  • Adds strip-restored-sdp option
  • Corrects typo in SRTP title
  • Clarifies interaction of nat-interval parameter with Adaptive HNT
  • Clarifies recursion policy's use of global count parameter
  • Adds mode 3 to tcp-keepalive-mode parameter
  • Updates minimum vSBC signaling core requirement to 2
June 2019
  • Adds feature interaction list that invalidates reactive transcoding
  • Adds note indicating NTP is not supported over wancom0 when configured for a VLAN
July 2019
  • Updates RTCP Generation Platform Support section
October 2019
  • Updates "AA-Request (AAR) Command" section.
  • Updates "Software-based transcoding" to remove information about the dtmf-in-audio parameter.
November 2019
  • Adds warning not to reboot when using media interface peercheck
December 2019
  • Corrects MSRP Platform Requirements
February 2020
  • Corrects session-agent max-burst-rate description
July 2020
  • Adds Silk codec to Transcodable Codec table in the Transcoding chapter
  • Updates "Securing Communications Between the OCSBC and SDM with TLS" to indicate that reboot is required after configuration.
  • Corrects the maximum number of DSPs supported on Acme Packet 63xx platforms
  • Removes reference to source routing
  • Removes entitlement sample
  • Adds note indicating that hide-egress-media-update on inbound media-sec-policy does not support hairpin flows
  • Adds note on pinging from secondary SBC
August 2020
  • Removes option to use -1 for ease of use purposes in "Configuring an Indivudual Control Rule" in "Admission Control and QoS"
  • Updates the RTC Support table to indicate that access-control is not RTC
  • Updates the RTC Support table to indicate H.323 stack subelement parameters that are not RTC supported
November 2020
  • Updates sections in importing and exporting PKCS#12 certificates
  • Adds the "Cluster Member Graceful Shutdown" section to the System Configuration chapter.
December 2020
  • Removes erroneously included Small Footprint VNF section.
March 2021
  • Notes that the system does not load balance Rx messages when performing recursion on them, and does not recurse CER or DWR messages
  • Clarifies HIP configuration descriptions
  • Corrects statement on add-codecs effect on codec offer order
  • Adds explanation of PT check and reuse of that PT, when applicable
  • Clarifies the reinvite-trying option's functionality
April 2021
  • Adds ACL configuration consideration wherein incorrect syntax can result in unintended behavior
June 2021
  • Corrects ptimes for G.722 for vSBC
  • Corrects ptimes for EVRC1 and EVRCB1
  • Clarifies session translation on out-of-dialog messages
  • Clarifies that round-robin is the only policy-group strategy
  • Removes reference to deprecated SRR feature