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SRC Service Management Applications

The SRC software and SRC application library provide the following service management applications:

SRC SOAP Gateway

The SRC SOAP Gateway (SRC-SG) allows a gateway client—an application that is not part of the SRC network—to interact with SRC components through a SOAP interface. This feature is useful for business-to-business situations, such as a wholesaler-retailer environment. Typically, the wholesaler owns and administers the SRC components, and the retailer maintains a database of subscribers. Retailers purchase services from one or more wholesalers and sell the services to their subscribers. Using information provided by the wholesaler, the retailer creates a gateway client to communicate with the components in the SRC software.

The SRC-SG provides the Dynamic Service Activator which allows a gateway client to dynamically activate and deactivate SRC services for subscribers and to run scripts that manage the SAE.

Deep Packet Inspection Integration Application

The SRC software has been integrated with the Ellacoya Networks Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) platform to provide a traffic management solution that combines the advanced traffic identification and reporting features of the Ellacoya DPI with the SRC software's intelligent service policy enforcement. With this solution, providers can identify, monitor, and control traffic on a per-application or per-subscriber basis.

Application traffic such as peer-to-peer file sharing or instant messaging, which in many cases originates or terminates outside of a provider's network, can cause abusive or indiscriminate consumption of bandwidth and impact a provider's ability to deliver its own services. In particular, services that require higher, guaranteed levels of performance, such as Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or video-on-demand (VoD), can be impacted. Having visibility into applications that are transported over the network and their associated bandwidth consumption at various times is important as is the ability to control those applications.

The DPI solution allows providers to implement service control policies on specific traffic flows quickly and effectively. Such policies include throttling back, capping volume, or even enhancing bandwidth or service quality for sanctioned peer-to-peer applications.

Benefits of the DPI Integration

By identifying and effectively controlling traffic at the application level, service providers can:

Once subscribers have used their quota, you can apply a policy that throttles back on or blocks a subscriber's peer-to-peer traffic, bill the subscriber for additional usage, or allow the subscriber to purchase additional quota.

Enterprise Audit Plug-In

The Enterprise Service Portal audit plug-in, also referred to as the enterprise service portal IT Manager Audit Plug-In, defines a callback interface, which receives events when IT managers complete specified operations, such as subscribing to a service or changing the parameter substitutions of a subscription. The events report the type of operation, the identity of the IT manager, and other attributes.

You can write audit plug-in event listeners by implementing the callback interface. A listener performs tasks such as processing received events and then publishing the events to one or more event handlers, such as a log file, system log, or database. Events are sent after the corresponding operations have been completed.

Enterprise Manager Portal

Enterprise Manager Portal is an application that allows service providers to provision services for enterprise subscribers on JUNOSe routers and JUNOS routing platforms and that allows IT managers to manage services. This Enterprise manager Portal is a complete application that requires little customization.

Figure 7 shows a sample page in the Enterprise Manager Portal.


Figure 7: Sample Page in Enterprise Manager Portal

You can use the Enterprise Manager Portal with the NAT Address Management Portal to allow service providers to manage public IP addresses for use with NAT services on JUNOS routing platforms and to allow IT managers to make requests about public IP addresses through the Enterprise Manager Portal. The NAT Address Management Portal is a complete application that requires little customization.

Sample Enterprise Service Portal

An enterprise service portal is a Web application that lets service providers supply a management interface to its customers for managing and provisioning services. The sample enterprise service portal provides is an application that illustrates how service providers can make their services available to IT managers in an enterprise and that provides developers with a starting point from which they can create their own enterprise service portals.

Threat Mitigation Portal

The Threat Mitigation Portal (SRC-TMP) and application allows service providers to respond to threats on the SRC-managed network. The application for the SRC-TMP can be customized based on customer-supplied data to control the description and recommended actions for each type of threat. The application includes the ability to log all user operations to provide an audit trail of actions.

The application uses these components to respond to threats:


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