Adding a Normal Value-Added Service
To add a normal value-added service with SDX Admin:
- In the SDX Admin navigation pane, highlight the Services folder, right-click, highlight New, and then click SSP Service.
The New SSP Service dialog box appears.
An object for the new service appears in the navigation pane, and basic information about the new service appears in the Main tab of the SSP Service pane.
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- In the Main tab, set Type to normal.
- Use the field descriptions in Value-Added Service Fields to configure the service, and then click Save.
- (Optional) You can configure parameters for the value-added service. See Setting Parameters for Value-Added Services.
Value-Added Service Fields
Use the fields in this section to configure normal value-added services.
Description
Type
- normal—Individual service that a subscriber activates and deactivates
- aggregate—Group of normal services that a subscriber activates and deactivates as a unit
For information about aggregate services, see Aggregating Services.
- script—Custom service that is used to provision policies on a number of systems across a network path, including networks that contain network devices that do not have supported network drivers
- infrastructure—Service that can be activated a number of times across network devices
Category
- Text that appears in the set of tabs that categorize services in the residential portal; for example, Video.
- Value—Text
- Default—No value
URL
- URL of the Web page that the subscriber sees after activating a service.
- Value—Text
- Default—No value
Design and Graphics
- Text string in the directory when the service is defined. The portal pages can use this string for any purpose.
The portal pages retrieve this string from the appropriate service object and incorporate the string in a URL that points to a file or directory that contains service-specific items, such as GIF files and Web pages. As a consequence, portal pages can be customized according to the available services that a subscriber has activated.
Policy Group
- DN of the policy group that is applied when the service is activated. The policy engine does not allow the activation of a service without an associated policy group.
If you do not have a policy group defined for this service, define a policy group with an empty ingress policy list and an empty egress policy list, and attach it to the service. See Defining Policies to Manage Traffic for details.
Applies only to normal services.
Authentication Required
- Determines whether activation of this service requires authentication with a username and password that are specific to this service.
- Value
Authorization Plugin
- List of authentication plug-ins that are called before the service is activated. In the list, a comma separates each authentication plug-in from the next one in the list.
- Value—Text
- Guidelines—If you use an authorization plug-in and define schedules for services, add the configured schedule authorization plug-in to the list. The default name for a schedule authorization plug-in is scheduleAuth.
- Default—No value
Tracking Plugin
- List of tracking plug-ins that are called after the service is activated, during interim updates, and when the service has been deactivated. In the list, a comma separates each authentication plug-in from the next one in the list.
- Value—Text
- Default—No value
Session Timeout (sec)
- Time after which the service session is deactivated.
- Value—Number of seconds in the range 0-2147483647
- Guidelines—Changes to the session timeout take effect immediately if the new value is lower than the remaining time for a session or if you specify that no session timeout applies. Other changes apply only to services that are activated after you make the change.
- Default—No value
Idle Timeout (sec)
To decide whether a service is idle, the SAE collects accounting information for the service, which means that the service activation policy must specify an accounting rule. The idle timeout is the minimum time the service must be idle before it is deactivated; the actual deactivation can be up to the accounting interim interval.
Acct. Interim Interval (sec)
- Time between interim accounting messages for this service.
- Value—Number of seconds in the range 0-2147483647
- blank—Uses the globally configured accounting interim value
- 0—Disables interim accounting for this service
Radius Class
- Default value used in the RADIUS class attribute in RADIUS accounting messages. If RADIUS authenticates the service session, the class attribute received in the RADIUS Access-Accept response from the server overrides this value.
- Value—Text
- Default—Service name
Status
Activate Only
- blank—False.
- true—SAE can activate but not deactivate this service.
- false—SAE can activate and deactivate this service.
Permanent
- blank—False.
- true—SAE activates this service automatically when a subscriber with a subscription to this service logs in, and keeps this service active until the subscriber logs out.
- false—SAE can activate and deactivate this service based on subscribers' requests.
Available
- blank—True.
CAUTION: Do not use the default (blank) setting for this field; the directory may not operate correctly if you do.
- true—Subscriber can activate service.
- false—Subscriber cannot activate service.
Deleted
- Blank—Other SRC components can access this entry in the directory.
- True—Other SRC components cannot use this entry in the directory, although the object still exists.
- False—Other SRC components can access this entry in the directory.
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