Oracle Communications Policy OAM Wireless Deploy (D94514) – Outline

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