Provisioning

Chapter 8 - Provisioning

The SMS2000 is capable of performing provisioning by using an external server (OCS or RADIUS) or internally using groups and rules. For more information on using the OCS to provision the SMS2000, see the OCS User’s Guide. For more information on RADIUS, see Chapter 13, “Using SMS2000 with a RADIUS Server.” Scenarios for performing these functions in various configurations are described below.

Table 8-1 shows how provisioning is performed with no external server, with RADIUS, with the OCS, and internally.

Table 8-1 Provisioning

Server

Functionality

With No External

SMS2000 based rules and groups allow you to target services at sets of

Server

subscribers. For more information on using groups and rules, see Chapter

 

10, “Groups and Rules.”

With RADIUS

RADIUS may set a user’s IP address and traffic shaping parameters. The

 

provisioning of user names and services must be done either manually or

 

by a separate provisioning server supplied for ISPs by a number of

 

software vendors.

With OCS

The OCS can handle provisioning of new users by either network

 

administrators or users themselves (self-provisioning). A number of user

 

attributes can be controlled, including addressing and traffic shaping.

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