Subscriber Management; Service Control Management; Data Collection - Cisco SCE 1000 Installation And Configuration Manual

Chapter 1 General Overview

Subscriber Management

Where the Cisco Service Control Application for Broadband (SCA BB) enforces different policies on
different subscribers and tracks usage on an individual subscriber basis, the Cisco Service Control
Management Suite (SCMS) Subscriber Manager (SM) may be used as middleware software for bridging
between the OSS and the SCE platforms. Subscriber information is stored in the SM database and can
be distributed between multiple platforms according to actual subscriber placement.
The SM provides subscriber awareness by mapping network IDs to subscriber IDs. It can obtain
subscriber information using dedicated integration modules that integrate with AAA devices, such as
Radius or DHCP servers.
Subscriber information may be obtained in one of two ways:
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Service Control Management

Service configuration management is the ability to configure the general service definitions of a service
control application. A service configuration file containing settings for traffic classification, accounting
and reporting, and control is created and applied to an SCE platform. The SCA BB application provides
tools to automate the distribution of these configuration files to SCE platforms. This simple,
standards-based approach makes it easy to manage multiple devices in a large network.
Service Control provides an easy-to-use GUI to edit and create these files and a complete set of APIs to
automate their creation.

Data Collection

The Cisco Service Control solution generates usage data and statistics from the SCE platform and
forwards them as Raw Data Records (RDRs), using a simple TCP-based protocol (RDR-Protocol). The
Cisco Service Control Management Suite (SCMS) Collection Manager (CM) software implements the
collection system, listening in on RDRs from one or more SCE platforms and processing them on the
local machine. The data is then stored for analysis and reporting functions, and for the collection and
presentation of data to additional OSS systems such as billing.
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Push Mode—The SM pushes subscriber information to the SCE platform automatically upon logon
of a subscriber.
Pull Mode—The SM sends subscriber information to the SCE platform in response to a query from
the SCE platform.
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