Web Element Manager (Wem) - Cisco ASR 5000 series Product Overview

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Content Filtering Support Overview

Support for the in/out ACL attributes to direct traffic through ECS for processing of subscriber traffic

Support for ECS rulebase VSA to select the ECS rulebase to be applied to filtered traffic

Support for Content Filtering Policy identifier VSA to select the content filtering policy within the selected

rulebase for a subscriber

Support exporting a subscriber provisioning record based on MSID to the customer service interface (Customer

Care Interface) so that operator's customer care executive can see the provisioned content filtering policy for a

Web Element Manager (WEM)

The WEM is a server-based application providing complete element management of the system. The UNIX-based

server application works with the network elements within the system using the Common Object Request Broker

Architecture (CORBA) standard.

Administration Guide.

WEM server must be set up with access to the following networks:

Internet: To communicate with the Master Content Rating Database Server (MCRDBS) which provides update

For Category-based Content Filtering, the WEM application includes the following features:

Single point of management for a large Content Filtering Service operator deployment:

Configures and manages the operator-defined White/Black static rating database (WBLIST) for the network

(WBLIST is maintained in SFMDB format)

Content filtering database management functions:

Distributes OPTCMDB/OPTCMDB-INC files to the chassis automatically at configured interval

For information on WEM administration, refer to the Web Element Manager Installation and

Content Filtering service configuration and monitoring

Alarm/trap management

Performs database processing in the background

Imports full and incremental SFMDB and SFMDB-INC files from the MCRDBS on a configured

Processes incremental SFMDB-INC updates from MCRDBS maintaining an updated SFMDB file

Merge the operator's WBLIST database with the most recent SFMDB creating a SFCMDB

Computes an incremental update to the OPTCMDB-INC suitable for updating the Content Filtering

subsystem that contains a previous version OPTCMDB

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