Detailed Course Outline
Inetgrate Policy Management into your business
- Define terms - PCRF, PCEF, EPC, PCC
- Components of teh 3GPP PCC architecture
- Business Needs and Use Cases
- Session request processing in a PCC network
Integrate Oracle's Policy Management into your network
- Oracle components: CMP, MPE, MRA/Policy Front End
- Functions of a CMP
- Functions of a MPE
- Functions of a MRA/Policy Front End
- How MPE evaluates policies
- Processing Gx PCEF requests and Rx Application requests
- How SPR profiles affect policy execution
- Communication to Diameter, OSS, and devices
Integrate to extend management and reliability
- Multi-level management with NW-CMPs and S-CMPs
- Functions of a NW-CMP server (new to relase 12.1)
- Functions of a S-CMP server (new to release 12.1)
- Extending reliability with High Reliability (HA)
- Extend reliability with Geo-redundant systems (new to release 12.1)
- HA spare servers
Integrate data and network communications into your business
- 3GPP PCC architecture and interfaces
- Diameter Gx and Sh message flow
- How Policy Servers (MPEs) process session requests
- How Policy Servers (MPEs) process session terminate requests
- Plan subsystem communications
Configure using the Graphical User interface (GUI)
- 3GPP and IETF guidelines and standards
- Oracle Help Center (OHC)
- Using On-line help
- Selecting user guides
- My Oracle Support (MOS)
- Structure and use of the GUI
Configure components
- Bulk and selective configuraiton export (new to release 12.1)
- Manage topology
- Manage Policy Server (MPE) options
- Use MPE configuration templates (new to release 12.1)
- Global configuration settings (many of these are new)
- configure custom APNs, S9 settings, and emergency APNs
Configure network communications
- Create and manage network elements (PCEFs)
- Configure OSSI
- Configure SNMP two different ways
Policies- Policy planning
- An orderly method of planning policy rules
- Planing the structure and use of policy rules
- Planning policy rule conditions
- Planning policy rule actions
- Planning the use of reference data ina policy rule
Policies- Policy reference data
- A summary of reference data
- Match lists and time periods
- Quota profiles and conventions
- Serving gateways and MCC-MNC mapping
- Tiers and entitlements
- Traffic profiles
- Charging Servers and retry profiles
- Custom AVP defintions
Policies- Master Policy Library
- Using the policy wizard to create policy rules
- Selecting conditions
- Selecting actions
- Using policy templates to create new policies
- Copying an existing policy to create new policies
Policies- Deploying policies
- Deploy poicies from the Policy Library
- Deploy policies from the Policy Server configuration menus
- Using Policy Groups
System Administration
- Control system users
- Ceate and manage user accounts
- Ceate and manage roles
- Ceate and manage scopes
Ancillary Devices- SPR/UDR
- Manage SPR from CMP
- Create test user profile records from CMP
- Search and modify user profile records from CMP
- Use tiers and entitlements in the CMP
Ancillary Devices- MRA/Policy Front End
- Functions of MRA/Policy Front End
- MRA scalability
- MRA diamter routing
- MRA session viewer
- Associating an MRA to MPEs
Monitor- component reports
- Interpret and analyze cluster information reports
- Interpret and analyze internal operations reports
- Interpret and analyze policy statistics reports
- Interpret and analyze quota profile statistics reports
Monitor - Alarms
- Interpret and analyze alarm reports alarm history reports
- Interpret and analyze alarm history reports
- Use the customer documentation to locate recovery actions
Monitor system- Component reports
- Interpret and analyze system-wide reports
- Interpret and analyze Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reports
- Interpret and analyze the subscriber activity log
- Interpret and analyze the CMP cluster report
Monitor system- Monitor system-wide reports
- Interpret and analyze the subscriber activity log
- Interpret and analyze AF sesson report and PDN connection reports
- Interpret and analyze APN suffix reports
- Interpret and analyze connection status reports
- Interpret and analyze MPE/MRA reports
- Interpret and analyze protocol error reports
Corrective maintenance- alarms and logs
- Locate alarms by their alarm code
- Decode alarm maessages
- Prepare for emergency actions
- Use alarm actions to troubelshoot problems
- Contact customer service - open service requests (SRs)
- Use My Oracle Support to track SRs
- Use knowledge base in My Oracle Support
Troubleshoot policies with protocol specific reports
- Interpret and analyze AF statistics reports
- Interpret and analyze PCEF statistics reports
- Interpret and analyze Sh statistics reports
- Interpret and analyze S9 Statistics reports
- Interpret and analyze latency reports
- Interpret and analyze Diameter error reports
Troubleshoot Diameter message processing
- Scenario- troubleshoot a message flow
- Analyze policies to identify expected results
- Choose diagnostic test points
- Set up policy network elements for testing
- Verify Diameter connections
- Interpret and analyze Diameter test messages
- Verify MRA and MPE/UDR message bindings
- Interpret and analyze the generation of PCC rule answer messages
Fixed-mobile Convergance
- Wireless and Fixed Radius PCC
- MPE as a Radius server
- Using and managing subscriber keys
- Creating and managing BNG network elements
- Creating and managing CoA templates