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Configuring the SAE to Interact with the JPS with the C-Web Interface

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 with the C-Web Interface

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 specify the application manager for the policy server:

  1. Click Configure, expand Shared, and then click Network.

The Network pane appears.

  1. From the Create new list, select Application Manager Group.
  2. In the dialog box, enter a name for the new Application Manager Group, and click OK.

The Application Manager Group:<name> pane appears.

  1. Enter the information in the main pane as described in the Help text, and click Apply.

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Specifying Application Manager Identifiers for Policy Servers with the C-Web Interface

The application manager identifier (AMID) identifies the application manager (such as the SAE) 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.

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Adding Objects for Policy Servers to the Directory with the C-Web Interface

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:

  1. Click Configure, expand Shared, and then click Network.

The Network pane appears.

  1. From the Create new list, select Policy Decision Point.
  2. In the dialog box, enter a name for the new Policy Decision Point, and click OK.

The Policy Decision Point:<name> pane appears.

  1. Enter the information in the main pane as described in the Help text, and click Apply.

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Configuring Initialization Scripts with the C-Web Interface

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

To configure initialization scripts for the SAE:

  1. Click Configure, expand Shared>SAE>Configuration>Driver, and then click Scripts.

The Scripts pane appears.

  1. Click the Create button.
  2. In the Pcmm box, enter the information as described in the Help text in the main pane, and click Apply. For the JPS, we recommend setting this value to amIorPublisher.

The script is run when the connection between a policy server and the SAE is established and again when the connection is dropped.

Enabling State Synchronization with the C-Web Interface

State synchronization is achieved when the SAE is configured to communicate with the policy server over the COPS connection.

To enable state synchronization with policy servers:

  1. Click Configure, expand Shared>SAE>Configuration>Driver, and then click Pcmm.

The Pcmm pane appears.

  1. Click the Create button.
  2. Clear the Disable Full Sync checkbox to enable full synchronization.
  3. If the policy server or devices do not support policies defined in PCMM-I03, make sure the Disable PCMM I03 checkbox is selected and that the correct value is displayed in the Session Recovery Retry Interval box. Refer to the Help text in the main pane as needed.
  4. Click Apply.

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