Cisco Systems OL-7821-04 Service Configuration Management, Subscriber Management, Collection

Chapter 1 Overview

Service Configuration Management

Subscriber Management

In cases where SCE 1000 is used to enforce different policies on different subscribers, and tracks usage on an individual subscriber basis, the Cisco Service Control Management Suite (SCMS) Subscriber Manager (SM) may be used as middleware software for bridging between the OSS and the SCE platforms. Subscriber information is stored in the SM database and can then be distributed between multiple platforms according to actual subscriber placement.

The SM provides subscriber awareness, mapping network IDs to subscriber IDs. It obtains subscriber information using dedicated integration modules, which integrate with AAA devices, such as Radius or DHCP servers.

Subscriber information may be obtained in one of two ways:

•Push Mode—The SM pushes subscriber information to the SCE platform automatically upon logon of a subscriber

•Pull Mode—On-demand, in response to a query from the SCE platform to the SM

Collection

The Cisco Service Control solution generates usage data and statistics from the SCE platform and forwards them as Raw Data Records (RDRs), using a simple TCP-based protocol (RDR- Protocol). The Service Control solution provides the Cisco Service Control Management Suite (SCMS) Collection Manager (CM) software as an implementation of a collection system, listening in on RDRs from one or more SCE platforms, and processing them on the local machine. The data is then stored for analysis and reporting functions, as well as simple collection and presentation of data to additional OSS systems such as billing.

Service Configuration Management

Service configuration management is the ability to configure the general service definitions of a service control application. A service configuration file containing settings for traffic classification, accounting & reporting, and control is created and applied to an SCE platform. SCA BB provides tools to automate the distribution of these configuration files to SCE platforms, and this simple, standards-based approach makes it easy to manage multiple devices in a large network.

Service Control provides an easy-to-use GUI to edit and create these files, as well as a complete set of APIs to automate their creation.

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