1. ACLI Reference Guide
  2. ACLI Configuration Elements N-Z
  3. steering-pool

steering-pool

The steering-pool element defines sets of ports that are used for steering media flows through the Oracle Communications Session Border Controller. The Oracle Communications Session Border Controller can provide packet steering in order to ensure a determined level of quality or routing path.

Parameters

ip-address
Enter the target IP address of the steering pool. This required entry must follow the IP Address Format. The combination of entries in the ip-address, start-port, and realm-id fields must be unique. No two steering-pool elements can have the same entries in the ip-address, start-port, and realm-id fields.
An IPV6 address is valid for this parameter.
start-port
Enter the port number that begins the range of ports available to this steering pool element. This is a required entry. The steering pool will not function properly unless this entry is a valid port.
  • Default: 0
  • Values: Min: 0 / Max: 65535
end-port
Enter the port number that ends the range of ports available to this steering-pool element. This is a required field. The steering-pool element will not function properly unless this field is a valid port value.
  • Default: 0
  • Values: Min: 0 / Max: 65535
realm-id
Enter the steering-pool element’s realm identifier used to restrict this steering pool to only the flows that originate from this realm. This required entry must be a valid identifier of a realm.
network-interface
Enter the name of network interface this steering pool directs its media toward. A valid value for this parameter must match a configured name parameter in the network-interface configuration element. This parameter applies only to realms with multiple interfaces.
port-allocation-strategy
Select the appropriate strategy for this steering pool based on media type support in this realm. You can create multiple steering pools using different strategies to support multiple media types, per your deployment. Settings include:
  • Default: mixed—The system can allocate these ports for any calls
  • single— The system only allocates these ports for calls that require a single port
  • pair— The system only allocates these ports for calls that require multiple ports

Path

steering-pool is an element under the media-manager path. The full path from the topmost ACLI prompt is: configure terminal , and then media-manager , and then steering-pool.

Note:

This is a multiple instance configuration element.