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Configuring the JPS

You can configure and manage the JPS by using the SRC CLI that runs on Solaris platforms and the C-series platforms. See Chapter 12, Configuring the JPS with the SRC CLI.

The tasks to configure the JPS for a cable network environment are:

  1. Configuring the JPS
  2. Modifying the Subscriber Configuration

In addition to configuring the JPS, you might need to perform these tasks:

  1. Configuring the SAE to Interact with the JPS

You can also use SRC configuration applications to perform this task. See Configuring the SAE to Interact with the JPS on Solaris Platforms.

  1. Using the NIC Resolver

Configuring the SAE to Interact with the JPS on Solaris Platforms

You must configure the SAE as an application manager to allow it to interact with PCMM-compliant policy servers. The policy server acts as a policy decision point that manages the relationships between application managers and CMTS devices. Policy servers that manage the same group of CMTS devices are grouped together and are simultaneously active. The policy server group provides a way for the SAE to communicate with any CMTS device that is managed by a policy server in the policy server group. To provide redundancy, the SAEs are grouped in an SAE community that connects to a policy server group. Only one of the SAEs in the SAE community is active. The active SAE establishes connections to all the policy servers in the policy server group. The active SAE will fail over to a redundant SAE only when it loses the connection to all the policy servers in the policy server group. State synchronization enables the SAE to synchronize its state with all the CMTS devices connected to a policy server group.

The tasks to configure the SAE as an application manager are:

Specifying Application Managers for the Policy Server

To specify the SAE community that connects to a policy server group, you need to add an application manager group object to the directory.

To add an application manager group with SDX Admin:

  1. In the navigation pane, highlight o=Network, and right-click.
  2. Select New > ApplicationManagerGroup.

The New ApplicationManagerGroup dialog box appears.

  1. In the New ApplicationManagerGroup dialog box, enter the name of the application manager group, and click OK.

The name of the group appears in the navigation pane, and information about the group appears in the ApplicationManagerGroup pane.

  1. Configure the parameters in the Main tab.
  2. Click Save in the ApplicationManagerGroup pane.

Description

Application Manager Tag

The SAE constructs the AMID value by concatenating two fields: Application Manager Tag and Application Type. The Application Type value is obtained from a service during activation. For more information about the Application Type field, see Specifying Application Manager Identifiers for Policy Servers.

Connected SAE

PDP Type

If you do not fill in this field, the device driver ignores this application manager group.

PDP Group

Local Address Pools

The IP pool syntax has the following format:

([<ipAddressStart> <ipAddressEnd>] |
{<ipBaseAddress>/(<mask> | <digitNumber>)(,<ipAddressExclude>)*})

You can use spaces in the syntax only to separate the first and last explicit IP addresses in a range.

Managing SAE IOR

Specifying Application Manager Identifiers for Policy Servers

To configure the AMID so that the application manager (such as the SAE) can be identified in messages sent to and from the policy server, the SAE constructs the AMID value by concatenating two fields: Application Manager Tag and Application Type. The Application Manager Tag value is obtained from the specification of application managers for policy servers. The Application Type value is obtained during service activation from the specification of the PCMM Application Type value when you configure normal services. For more information about configuring services, see SRC-PE Services and Policies Guide, Chapter 2, Managing Services on a Solaris Platform.

PCMM Application Type

The SAE constructs the AMID value by concatenating two fields: Application Manager Tag and PCMM Application Type. For more information about the Application Manager Tag field, see Specifying Application Managers for the Policy Server.

Adding Objects for Policy Servers to the Directory

To communicate with policy servers, the SAE creates and manages pseudointerfaces that it associates with a policy decision point object in the directory. Each policy server in the SRC network must appear in the directory as a policy decision point object.

To add a policy server to the directory with SDX Admin:

  1. In the navigation pane, select o=Network, and right-click.
  2. Select New > PolicyDecisionPoint.

The New PolicyDecisionPoint dialog box appears.

  1. In the New PolicyDecisionPoint dialog box, enter the name of the policy server, and click OK.

The name of the policy server appears in the navigation pane, and information about the policy server appears in the PolicyDecisionPoint pane.

  1. Set the parameters in the Main tab of the PolicyDecisionPoint pane.
  2. Click Save in the PolicyDecisionPoint pane.
  3. Create an SAE community for the policy servers. See Specifying Application Managers for the Policy Server.

Description

PDP Address

PDP Type

If you do not fill in this field, the device driver ignores this policy server.

PDP Group

Configuring Initialization Scripts

When the SAE establishes a connection with a policy server, it runs an initialization script to customize the setup of the connection.

To use SDX Configuration Editor to configure initialization scripts for the SAE:

  1. In the navigation pane, select the SAE object for which you want to configure an initialization script.
  2. Select the Router tab.

The Router pane appears.

  1. In the Router Scripts area of the Router pane, enter the name of the initialization script in the PCMM Script property.

PCMM Script

Enabling State Synchronization

State synchronization is achieved when the SAE is required to communicate with the policy server over the COPS connection. To enable state synchronization with policy servers, you can specify these properties for the PCMM device driver in the Router tab of SDX Configuration Editor.

Disable Full Sync

Disable I03 Policy

Session Recovery Retry Interval


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