DSR 7.0 Network Impact Report
Oracle® Diameter Signaling Router
DSR Network Impact Report
Release 7.0
(Includes 5 to 7 and 6 to 7 deltas)
dsr-7.0.0.0.0-70.22.0
E57188-01
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CHANGE HISTORY
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1
INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................................................... 6
1.1
1.2
2
OVERVIEW OF DSR 7.0 FEATURES ................................................................................................................. 7
2.1
2.2
2.2.1
2.2.2
2.2.3
2.2.4
2.2.5
2.2.6
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
3
ALARMS DELTA (RELEASE 5 TO 7) ................................................................................................................. 27
MEASUREMENTS DELTA (RELEASE 5 TO 7) .................................................................................................... 27
KPIS (RELEASE 5 TO 7) ................................................................................................................................... 27
MIB NOTIFICATIONS (RELEASE 5 TO 7) .......................................................................................................... 27
OAM CHANGE SUMMARY (RELEASE 6 TO 7) ............................................................................................. 27
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
7
ALARM/MEASUREMENTS/KPIS/MIBS DELTA (5.0 TO 7.0) ............................................................................ 26
ALARM/MEASUREMENTS/KPIS/MIBS DELTA (6.0 TO 7.0) ............................................................................ 26
OAM CHANGE SUMMARY (RELEASE 5 TO 7) ............................................................................................. 27
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
6
POLICY AND CHARGING APPLICATION ( PR )................................................................................................. 20
TOPOLOGY HIDING ( PR ) ............................................................................................................................... 23
MEDIATION: CLONE/EDIT AVPS IN DICTIONARY ( PR 226223).................................................................... 23
MEAL INSERTS .................................................................................................................................................... 26
4.1
4.2
5
DSR 7.0 NEW FEATURES .................................................................................................................................. 7
ENHANCEMENTS TO DSR 6.0 FUNCTIONALITY, BY CATEGORY ....................................................................... 8
MEDIATION ENHANCEMENTS ......................................................................................................................... 8
IPFE ENHANCEMENTS ................................................................................................................................. 10
PROTOCOL/CONNECTION RELATED ENHANCEMENTS ................................................................................ 11
ROUTING ENHANCEMENTS ........................................................................................................................... 14
IDIH TROUBLESHOOTING ............................................................................................................................. 15
CONFIGURATION/VIEWING RELATED ENHANCEMENTS ............................................................................... 16
HARDWARE CHANGES ..................................................................................................................................... 17
SOFTWARE CHANGES ...................................................................................................................................... 17
FIRMWARE CHANGES ....................................................................................................................................... 18
UPGRADE OVERVIEW ....................................................................................................................................... 19
MIGRATION OF DSR DATA .............................................................................................................................. 19
CHANGES BY FEATURE .................................................................................................................................... 20
3.1
3.2
3.3
4
PURPOSE/SCOPE ............................................................................................................................................... 6
DISCLAIMERS ...................................................................................................................................................... 6
ALARMS DELTA (RELEASE 6 TO 7) ................................................................................................................. 27
MEASUREMENTS DELTA (RELEASE 6 TO 7) .................................................................................................... 27
KPIS (RELEASE 6 TO 7) ................................................................................................................................... 28
MIB NOTIFICATIONS (RELEASE 6 TO 7) .......................................................................................................... 28
IP PORT CHANGES (RELEASE 6 TO 7) ............................................................................................................. 29
REFERENCE LIST ................................................................................................................................................ 30
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LIST OF TERMS
ACL ………………………Access Control List
AVP ………………………Attribute Value Pair
CLI ………………………..Command Line Interface
DNS ………………………Domain Name Server
GUI ……………………….Graphical User Interface
HSS .....................................Home Subscriber Server
iLO ………………………..Integrated Lights Out
IMI ......................................Internal Management Interface
IOT ………………………..Interoperability Tests
KPI ………………………..Key Performance Indicator
LTE ……………………….Long Term Evolution
MEAL..................................Measurements, Events, Alarms, and Logging
MME ……………………...Mobility Management Entity
MP.......................................Message Processor
MPS ………………………Messages per Second
NE ………………………...Network Element
NMS ………………………Network Management System
OAM……………………...Operations, Administration, Maintenance
OAM&P .............................Operations, Administration, Maintenance and Provisioning
OCF ………………………On-line Charging Function
OFCF ……………………..Off-line Charging Function
PDRA ……………………..Policy Diameter Relay Agent
PCRF ……………………..DSR Control and Charging Rules Function
P-CSCF................................Proxy-Call Session Control Function
PDU ………………………Protocol Data Unit
PM&C …………………….Platform, Management and Control
S-CSCF ...............................Session Call Session Control Function
SLF ……………………….Subscriber Locator Function
SPR……………………….Subscriber Profile Repository
TPD ……………………….ORACLE Platform Distribution
VIP ......................................Virtual IP Address
XMI......................................External Management Interface
XSI.......................................External Signaling Interface
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1 Introduction
1.1 Purpose/Scope
Purpose of this Feature Guide document is to highlight the changes of the product that may have impact on the customer
network operations, and should be considered by the customer during planning for this release.
The scope of this document is limited to the changes between DSR 6.0 and DSR 7.0, although Upgrade from 5.0 or 5.1
to 7.0 is also supported.
Note: DSR 6.0 and 7.0 support the 3-tier network architecture only. Any deployments with 2-tier architecture
must migrate to 3-tier before upgrade to DSR 6.0 or 7.0.
1.2 Disclaimers
This document summarizes Release 7.0 new and enhancement features as compared to Release 6.0, and the operations
impacts of these features, at a high level. The Feature Requirements (FRS) documents remain the defining source for
the expected behavior of these features.
Note that feature implementations may change slightly during product test.
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2 Overview of DSR 7.0 Features
This section provides an overview of the DSR 7.0 release features that may impact OAM interfaces and activities.
For a list of all feature, please see the following document:
Oracle® Communications Diameter Signaling Router Feature Notice
Release 7.0
E57491-01
http://pdb.us.oracle.com/search.jsp?q=E57491
2.1 DSR 7.0 New Features
DSR 7.0 introduces the following new Features, which may be new installed in DSR 7.0, or activated after upgrade to
DSR 7.0, depending on customer need.
Name
Description
Scope
Charging Proxy (OC-DRA)
Online Charging – Diameter Relay Agent (OCDRA) is a feature that provides interworking and
enhanced routing for Gy/Ro interfaces in the network
(i.e. interfaces between CTF points and On-line
Charging systems (OCS)).
Major feature, Optional
Activation
(PR 216741)
Most importantly, the provided functionality solves
multiple interoperability issues of these devices, and
provides load balancing to OCS servers.
OC-DRA is logically part of the new Policy and
Charging Applicaton (PCA) functionality, which
includes both Policy-DRA (P-DRA) and OC-DRA.
Regionalized Routing for P-DRA
and OC-DRA
(PR 230896)
Also called “RBAR – PCRF Application Chaining”,
this feature provides the ability to route new CCR-I
requests to the “region” of the customer network that
supports the subscriber. It relys on the existing
RBAR functionality of the DSR system to determine
what region the subscriber is hosted from, and then
route the session to a DSR in the target region, where
the PCRF in the identified region can be invoked.
Major feature, Optional
Activation
This supports customer network architectures that
are regionalized.
P-DRA 3-site redundancy
(PR 219142)
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functionality in 3-site redundancy clusters (instead of
the current 2-site Mated architecture). 2 of the 3
sites can fail without impacting supported
functionality (other then capacity/performance).
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Diameter Edge Agent (DEA)
Topology Hiding – additional
Features
S9 PCRF Topology Hiding
S9 AF/pCSCF Topology Hiding
S6a/S6d HSS Topology Hiding
(PR 225785, 225786, 229021)
These features provide additional ability to “hide”
the service provider PCRF, AF/pCSCF and HSS
systems from other service providers, while
providing necessary roaming signaling between the
service provider networks.
Major feature, Optional
Use
2.2 Enhancements to DSR 6.0 functionality, by Category
At the time of upgrade to DSR 7.0, a number of features and enhancements will become visible on the interfaces to the
DSR and may change certain existing OAM behaviors of the system. This section will summarize these feature changes
as they affect OAM activities.
Note: For information on Upgrade planning and required steps before upgrade, please refer to the DSR 7.0 Software
Upgrade Guide (E54117-01).
Note: For information about new Optional Features that may be configured post-upgrade, see the following section on
Optional Features.
2.2.1 Mediation Enhancements
The optional Mediation feature has several enhancements listed below.
Note: for more detail on Mediation enhancements, please refer to the Mediation User Guide for DSR 7.0.
Name
Description
Scope
Mediation: Access Request
content during Answer
Processing
Mediation: This enhancement provides for read only
Mediation
Enhancement feature,
(PR 225185)
Mediation: Ability to
import/export mediation
rules
(PR 232355)
Mediation: Additional
trigger points for
CEx/DPx/DWx handling
(PR 235405)
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access to all components of a Request while
processing an Answer at the Answer Trigger Points
including ATP4 and ATP6. Specifically, the
mediation function will provide a mechanism to
access components of the Request to be used in
Conditions and Actions.
Mediation: This enhancement provides a mechanism
for the operator to import and export all mediation
rules associated with a template. Rules associated
with a template can be imported or exported from the
corresponding template screen in the Rule Sets menu.
Exported Rule Sets are packaged in xml format.
Rules are validated rule by rule during the import
process.
Mediation: This enhancement provides a mechanism
to modify/drop CEx/DPx/DWx messages sent or
received by the DSR, using mediation. It provides
Request and Answer trigger points at ingress and
egress of CER, CEA, DPR, DPA, DWR and DWA
messages.
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Enhancement feature,
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Mediation: Additional
trigger points during
application invocation
(PR 235406)
Mediation: Mediation
support for Re-routed
requests
Mediation: This enhancement provides the ability to
manipulate Requests and Answers as they are being
sent to or received from applications hosted on the
DSR via 2 new Request Trigger points and 2 new
Answer Trigger points.
Mediation:
Mediation
Enhancement feature,
Optional Use
Mediation
Enhancement feature,
Optional Use
(PR 235407)
Mediation: Support for
Scripting in Mediation
(PR 235408)
Mediation: Measurements
associated with rules
(PR 236053)
Mediation: Clone/Edit
AVPs in Dictionary
(PR 226223)
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Mediation: This enhancement calls for a mechanism
that allows Oracle to develop new utility functions via
perl 5 scripts without requiring a software update to
the mediation functionality. The scripts can be used to
add new utility functions that can be referred to in
Conditions or in Actions.
Mediation: This enhancement calls for maintaining peg
Mediation
Enhancement feature,
Optional Use
Mediation
counts for the rules in a rule set and enabling/disabling Enhancement feature,
these on demand. These counts can be
Optional Use
enabled/disabled as a property of the template and
once enabled, the counters appear against the
individual Rules in the Rule Set.
Mediation: This enhancement provides for the ability
to clone AVPs from the base dictionary and then
modify them. Any such clones appear in the custom
dictionary only, from where they can be further
editable
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2.2.2 IPFE Enhancements
The optional IPFE features have several enhancements listed below.
Name
Description
Scope
IPFE initiator support: DSR
'initiator only' connections
(PR 220164)
This feature provides for configured “virtual” Source IP
address in the DSR Initiated TCP and SCTP connections to
HSS’s (and other systems that expect the DSR to Initiate
the Diameter connections). In this way, the HSS’s know
the DSR system by a small set of “virtual” Source IP
addresses. This simplifies connection management at the
HSS’s (and similar systems).
IPFE
IPFE : Peer Node Group
aware least load distribution
algorithm
This feature provides an enhancement to the “Least Load
Distribution” algorithim, introduced in DSR 5.0.
IPFE
(PR 220300)
The DSR provides a new Diameter configuration object at
the SOAM that allows the user to configure a set of peer
nodes with like attributes (Peer Node Group).
The IPFE uses this configuration object (referred as peer
node group) to provide a peer node group aware least load
distribution algorithm.
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DSR Signaling Port Range
Management
The pre-7.0 DSR product has an overlapping port range (065535) for responder and initiator connections.
(PR 232202)
This DSR enhancement defines a non-overlapping port
range partitioning for application use across the DSR
system and leaves an IANA compliant ephemeral port
range for platform or other services use.
DSR System
New Port Range allocations:
Responder
Initiator
Ephemeral
1024-16383
16384-49151
49152-65535
NOTE: When the customer upgrades the system to 7.0 their
existing signaling port configuration may be conflict with
this feature so some pre-upgrade activities should be
conducted.
It is possible that all customers will accept the new port
ranges and will work to ensure that their currently manually
configured ports fall within the new ranges align with the
appropriate port ranges for the connection type.
A pre-upgrade health check MOP shall be made available
to customers to identify configurations that have do not
align with the new port ranges for their connection types
ports outside of the new ranges.
E54117-01
Oracle® Communications Diameter Signaling Router
DSR Software Upgrade Guide Release 7.0.
Page 134 - Section 4.8.7 - IPFE Upgrade Preparation – Site
1 (PCA) Prior to upgrading the IPFEs, the IP ports used by
the IPFE connections must be verified to be within an
allowed range. The following procedure checks the port
numbers and, if necessary, changes the ports to the allowed
range.
2.2.3 Protocol/Connection Related Enhancements
There are several protocol/connection enhancements listed below.
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DSR - TCP/SCTP Transport
Tuning
Additional configurability of TCP and SCTP transport
parameter specifications for diameter connections.
(PR 231709)
New user configurable TCP parameters:
Maximum Segment Size (bytes)
TCP Keep Alive
TCP Idle Time For Keep Alive
TCP Probe Interval For Keep Alive
TCP Keep Alive Max Count
SCTP/TCP Diameter
connections
New user configurable SCTP configurable parameters:
Maximum Segment Size (bytes)
Fragmentation Flag
DATA Chunk Delivery Flag
New Engineering Configurable TCP parameters:
TCP congestion algorithm
TCP Window Clamp (bytes)
DCL re-factoring
enhancement
DCL re-factoring enhancement has a total 15 PRs and
related state machine change(listed below).
Major Changes
“DCL has undergone a major re-factoring in order to
address lingering race conditions and deadlock
issues. Additionally, improvements to software
maintenance, extensibility, security, and performance were
significant considerations during this effort.
1. PR197889
DSR DCL: Verify Event ID 22313 Connection
Unavailable: Transport failure for TCP Connection.
2. PR213477
Local node info should be separate from connection info so
that CEAs can be sent in response to erroneous CERs.
3. PR219533
DSR does not send an answer response with request queue
overflow encoded when DRL request task queue full.
4. PR220716
DSR sends CEA-Success before disconnecting due to
insufficient MPS.
5. PR221776
DSR Restart (illegal memory access) on DA-MP during
high traffic run when connection is deleted while being
established.
6. PR222597
Disabled IPFE connection is stuck in Degraded/Proving
state.
7. PR228464
Traffic loss on DA-MP because of excessive locking
causing DA-MP to freeze up when it is being added to IPFE
TSA.
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8. PR228638
ConnectionStatus entry not completely initialized when
created by DA-MP Leader.
9. PR228651
Cleanup locking in DclData.C.
10. PR228654
Cleanup DclSignaling routines to use generic APIs for CER
and CEA.
11. PR229259
FD006895 DSR internal resource congestion requirements
are not aligned with current implementation.
12. PR232045
RFC6733 Compliance SCTP Guidelines
13. PR232378
Connections dropped due to connection capacity race
condition.
14. PR237923
RxConnOversizedMsg not pegged for CER messages.
15. PR238315
DRL should specify selected MP ID when sending
connection release event to DCL
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2.2.4 Routing Enhancements
There are several routing enhancements listed below.
Name
Description
Scope
Extended Command Codes
Several DSR application business and routing rules,
including following, uses the Diameter Command Code for
decision-making criteria:
Routing
(PR 229201)

Message priority assignment (via Message Priority
Configuration Sets),
 ART and PRT rules
The ‘Extended Command Codes (ECC)’ feature in DSR
broadens the definition of a Diameter Command Codes to
include an additional application specific single Diameter
or 3GPP AVP content per Command Code.
For example, in the CCR message, the “CC-RequestType” AVP (values: Initial, Update, Terminate,Event) can
be used as part of the routing decisions.
Remove PRT /ART rule
evaluation order ambiguity
(PR 232387)
Increases the number of priorities that can be assigned to a
rule. This allows the user to assign unique priorities to
rules, to assure that they are evaluated in the expected
order.
Routing
The number of priorities supported is equal to the supported
number of rules in a given PRT/ART table instance.
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Ingress Message Screening
(PR 220661)
The following actions are added to Routing processing,
which will enable screening of ingress messages using
Rules (with option to Discard Message, or Answer with a
specific result code. [ART: Application Routing Table,
PRT: Peer Routing Table]
Routing Rules Logic
1) New action for ART: Forward to Egress Routing
ART search stops when this is encountered, and DRL
moves on to PRT. ART does not provide any override
method for PRT selection. PRT is selected based on
existing prioritization.
2) New action for ART: Send Answer
ART generates an Answer. This Answer will unwind any
previously encountered DSR Applications that want to
process the Answer. Normal controls for Answer are given:
Result-Code vs Experimental Result Code, Result-Code
value, Vendor-Id, and ErrorMessage string
3) New action for ART: Discard
If any DSR Application wants to see the Answer, ART
generates a default Answer flagged to prohibit egress
routing. Otherwise DRL discards the Request at that point.
4) New action for PRT: Discard
Same rules as ART.
PRT/ART support for
'contains' operator
(PR 218728)
DSR should use alternate
implicit route if routing via
implicit route fails
(PR 195811)
This enhancement adds support for a 'contains' operator for
the currently supported PRT/ART string parameters
(Origin/Dest-Realm, Origin/Dest-Host). This may allow
clusters of hosts to be identified with a single rule.
Routing Rules Logic
Currently, if a Request is routed via an implicit host (i.e.
direct connect) route, if routing fails, DSR sends an Answer
to the Request originator without attempting to use the
Alternate Implcit Route (if configured) for the peer.
With this enhancement, DSR will attempt to use the
Alternate Implicit Route (if configured) for the peer as part
of the routing failure handling.
2.2.5 iDIH Troubleshooting
The following enhancements are provided for the iDIH Troubleshooting feature.
Name
Description
Scope
Sd Support
Provide a full decode of AVPs specific to the Sd interface,
as part of the Call Trace.
Call Trace
(PR 232434)
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Sy Support
(PR 237026)
S13 Support
(PR 237027)
OC-DRA Call Trace,
plus P-DRA Call Trace
enhancements
Provide a full decode of AVPs specific to the Sy interface,
as part of the Call Trace.
Call Trace
Provide a full decode of AVPs specific to the S13 interface,
as part of the Call Trace.
Call Trace
OC-DRA feature includes Call Trace support, and there are
enhancements to the PDRA Call Trace captures.
Call Trace
2.2.6 Configuration/Viewing Related Enhancements
The following Configuration/viewing enhancements are provided.
Name
Description
Scope
PCRF Topology Hiding
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2.3 Hardware Changes
2.3.1 Hardware Supported
Hardware
Comment
HP BL460 Gen6
HP BL620 Gen7
HP BL460c Gen8
HP DL360/380 Gen6
HP DL360/380 Gen8
Sun Netra X3-2
HP 6125, 6120
Cisco 3020
c-Class
c-Class
c-Class
Rack Mount Server
Rack Mount Server
Rack Mount Server
Enclosure Switch
Enclosure Switch
Note: Gen 8 v2 hardware (with upgraded processors) are also supported, when purchased by a customer.
Note: mixed Sun/HP deployments are not generally supported.
2.3.2 Hardware Upgrade
No hardware upgrades are required with this release.
Deployment of certain Optional features may require additional hardware.
2.4 Software Changes
Software change include a new release of the software Platform components, and new DSR release.
2.4.1 Platform 6.7
Platform Release 6.7 inherits all the functionality of Release 6.5.
Platform 6.7 Component Versions
Component
TPD 64 Bit
COMCOL
PM&C
TVOE
AppWorks
Networking
Firmware
Release
6.7
6.3
5.7
2.7
5.7
5.7
2.2.6 (minimum)
2.4.2 DSR Release 7.0
DSR Release 7.0 inherits all functionality from DSR6.0.
DSR Release
Component
DSR Release
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2.4.3 SDS Release Compatability
DSR Release 7.0 is compatible with SDS Release 5.0.
DSR Release
Component
SDS Release
Release
5.0
2.5 Firmware Changes
Below is a summary of the recommended firmware levels provided in the recent FUP Releases.
For details on FUP release 2.2.6, please reference:
Oracle® Communications
HP Solutions Firmware Upgrade Pack -- Release Notes
Release 2.2.6
E54547 Revision 01
Firmware
FUP 2.2.4
FUP 2.2.5
FUP 2.2.6
G8 Blades
System: ProLiant BL460c Gen8
ROM version: I31 03/01/2013
Disc Cntrler: 3.42
iLo Firmware Revision = 1.20
NIC firmware-version: bc 7.4.22
3.71
System: ProLiant BL460c Gen8
ROM version: I31 09/08/2013
Disc Cntrler: 4.68
iLo Firmware Revision = 1.30
NIC firmware-version: bc 7.4.22
4.01
System: ProLiant BL460c Gen8
ROM version : I31 12/20/2013
Disc Cntrler: 5.22
iLo Firmware Revision = 1.40
NIC firmware-version: bc 7.8.79
4.21
System: ProLiant DL380p Gen8
ROM version: P70 12/14/2012
Disc Cntrler: 3.42
ILo Firmware Revision = 1.20
NIC firmware-version: 5719-v1.31
System: ProLiant DL380p Gen8
ROM version: P70 09/08/2013
Disc Cntrler: 4.68
ILo Firmware Revision = 1.30
NIC firmware-version: 5719-v1.33
System: ProLiant DL380p Gen8
ROM version: P70 09/08/2013
Disc Cntrler: 4.68
ILo Firmware Revision = 1.30
NIC firmware-version: 5719-v1.37
System: ProLiant DL380p Gen6
ROM version : P70 12/14/2012
Disc Cntrler: 3.42
ILo Firmware Revision = 1.20
NIC firmware-version: 5719-v1.31
System: ProLiant DL380p Gen6
ROM version : P70 09/08/2013
Disc Cntrler: 4.68
ILo Firmware Revision = 1.30
NIC firmware-version: 5719-v1.33
System: ProLiant DL380p Gen6
ROM version : P70 09/08/2013
Disc Cntrler: 4.68
ILo Firmware Revision = 1.30
NIC firmware-version: 5719-v1.37
System: ProLiant DL380p Gen8
ROM version : P70 12/14/2012
Disc Cntrler: 3.42
ILo Firmware Revision = 1.20
NIC firmware-version: 5719-v1.31
System: ProLiant BL460c Gen7
ROM version : I31 03/01/2013
Disc Cntrler: 3.42
ILo Firmware Revision = 1.20
NIC firmware-version: bc 7.4.22
System: ProLiant DL380p Gen8
ROM version : P70 09/08/2013
Disc Cntrler: 4.68
ILo Firmware Revision = 1.30
NIC firmware-version: 5719-v1.33
System: ProLiant BL460c Gen7
ROM version : I31 09/08/2013
Disc Cntrler: 4.68
ILo Firmware Revision = 1.30
NIC firmware-version: bc 7.4.22
System: ProLiant DL380p Gen8
ROM version : P70 09/08/2013
Disc Cntrler: 4.68
ILo Firmware Revision = 1.30
NIC firmware-version: 5719-v1.37
System: ProLiant BL460c Gen7
ROM version : I31 09/08/2013
Disc Cntrler: 4.68
ILo Firmware Revision = 1.30
NIC firmware-version: bc 7.4.22
Onboard
Administrator
PM&C Server
RMS Server
G7 Blades
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System: ProLiant BL460c Gen6
ROM version : I31 03/01/2013
Disc Cntrler: 3.42
ILo Firmware Revision = 1.20
NIC firmware-version: bc 7.4.22
System: ProLiant BL460c Gen6
ROM version : I31 09/08/2013
Disc Cntrler: 4.68
ILo Firmware Revision = 1.30
NIC firmware-version: bc 7.4.22
System: ProLiant BL460c Gen6
ROM version : I31 09/08/2013
Disc Cntrler: 4.68
ILo Firmware Revision = 1.30
NIC firmware-version: bc 7.4.22
2.6 Upgrade Overview
This section provides an overview of the Upgrade activities for Release 7.0.
2.6.1 Upgrade Path
For this document, the path from 6.0GA  7.0 is assumed. [Note: Upgrade from 5.0 GA and 5.1 GA to 7.0 are also
supported.]
2.6.2 Order of Upgrade
1) Firmware Upgrade
2) Platform components
a.
PM&C upgrades
b.
TVOE Upgrades
3) DSR Upgrade in the following sequence –
a.
NOAM / DR-NOAM
b.
SOAM and site SOAM managed servers (site-at-a-time)
4) Configure for new DSR features
2.6.3 2-Tier OAM not Supported
2-Tier OAM architecture is not supported in DSR 6.0 or 7.0. Migration from 2-tier to 3-tier (if needed) must be done
before upgrade to DSR 6.0 or 7.0.
2.6.4 Active/Standby DA-MP servers supported
Active/Standby DA-MP server architecture (1+1) continues to be supported in DSR 7.0.
Migration to Multi-active (N+0) DA-MP server architecture is recommended for all customers, and required for
activating PDRA functionality.
2.7 Migration of DSR Data
As in prior releases, the existing DSR Data will be preserved during the upgrade.
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3 Changes by Feature
This section describes the OAM changes introduced to the 7.0 product (as compared to the 6.0) organized by feature.
OAM changes include: User Interfaces (NO GUI, SO GUI), Measurements Reports, Alarms, and KPIs.
Note: this section covers OAM changes that will be visible after upgrade to the 7.0 release, and does not include
changes that will be seen only as new Optional Features are Activated on the system (post-upgrade activity, and
customer specific).
3.1 Policy and Charging Application ( PR )
3.1.1 Description
The DSR 5.0/6.0 feature called Policy Diameter Relay Agent (P-DRA, or PDRA) is now a component of a larger
functionality:
Policy and Charging Application (PCA).
The PCA functionality includes:
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P-DRA (Policy DRA)
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OC-DRA (Online Charging DRA)
PCA is a Optional Feature with a Activation procedure.
P-DRA and OC-DRA can be independently Enabled after PCA is Activated.
During upgrade of a system, if the pre-7.0 P-DRA feature was previously activated, then the DSR 7.0 PCA feature will
also be activated after upgrade, and the P-DRA feature (part of PCA) will be Enabled and all related configuration of
this feature is preserved. The OC-DRA feature (part of PCA) will be Disabled by default during upgrade.
3.1.2 NOAM GUI Forms
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3.1.3 SOAM GUI Forms
3.1.4 Dependency
None
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3.2 Topology Hiding ( PR )
Topology Hiding for S9 and Af/pCSCF are added to the NOAM Topology Hinding sub menu.
3.2.1 NOAM GUI Forms
3.3 Mediation: Clone/Edit AVPs in Dictionary ( PR 226223)
The feature allowing editing of AVPs to make custom AVPs adds a new “AVP Dictionary” menu item on the SOAM.
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4 MEAL Inserts
This section will summarize the changes to Alarms, Measurements and KPIs. In the following inserts pertain to 5.0 and
6.0 Alarms, Measurements, KPIs, and MIBs. NOTE: Alarms for the new Optional features in DSR 6.0 are not listed.
Please see the Documentation for these new features for information on the available Alarms.
(Includes 5 to 7 and 6 to 7 deltas)
dsr-7.0.0.0.0-70.22.0
4.1 Alarm/Measurements/KPIs/MIBs Delta (5.0 to 7.0)
edited_MEAL_dsr-5.
0.0-50.22.0_GA-dsr-7.0.0.0.0-70.22.0.xlsx
4.2 Alarm/Measurements/KPIs/MIBs Delta (6.0 to 7.0)
edited_MEAL_dsr-6.
0.0-60.24.0-dsr-7.0.0.0.0-70.22.0.xlsx
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5 OAM Change Summary (Release 5 to 7)
This section will summarize the changes to Alarms, Measurements and KPIs.
5.1 Alarms Delta (Release 5 to 7)
In the following table, the Added, changed and Deleted alarms are listed, for the Delta of 5.0 to 7.0.
Alarms for the new Optional features in DSR 5.0 are not listed. Please see the Documentation for these new features for
information on the available Alarms.
Scope: An alarm with B scope is reported at the SOAM and NOAM. An alarm with A scope is reported at the NOAM
only.
<See section 4.x and the embedded spread sheets>
5.2 Measurements Delta (Release 5 to 7)
The Measurements changes for Pre-7.0 features are listed below.
<See section 4.x and the embedded spread sheets>
Measuements for the new Optional features in DSR 7.0 are not listed. Please see the Documentation for these new
features for information on the available Measurements.
5.3 KPIs (Release 5 to 7)
The KPI changes for Pre-7.0 features are listed below.
<See section 4.x and the embedded spread sheets>
KPIs for the new Optional features in DSR 7.0 are not listed. Please see the User Documentation for these new
Optional features for information on the available KPIs.
5.4 MIB Notifications (Release 5 to 7)
The KPI changes for Pre-7.0 features are listed below.
<See section 4.x and the embedded spread sheets>
KPIs for the new Optional features in DSR 7.0 are not listed. Please see the User Documentation for these new
Optional features for information on the available KPIs.
6 OAM Change Summary (Release 6 to 7)
This section will summarize the changes to Alarms, Measurements and KPIs.
6.1 Alarms Delta (Release 6 to 7)
In the following table, the Added, changed and Deleted alarms are listed, for the Delta of 6.0 to 7.0.
Alarms for the new Optional features in DSR 6.0 are not listed. Please see the Documentation for these new features for
information on the available Alarms.
Scope: An alarm with B scope is reported at the SOAM and NOAM. An alarm with A scope is reported at the NOAM
only.
<See section 4.x and the embedded spread sheets>
6.2 Measurements Delta (Release 6 to 7)
The Measurements changes for Pre-7.0 features are listed below.
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<See section 4.x and the embedded spread sheets>
Measuements for the new Optional features in DSR 7.0 are not listed. Please see the Documentation for these new
features for information on the available Measurements.
6.3 KPIs (Release 6 to 7)
The KPI changes for Pre-7.0 features are listed below.
<See section 4.x and the embedded spread sheets>
KPIs for the new Optional features in DSR 7.0 are not listed. Please see the User Documentation for these new
Optional features for information on the available KPIs.
6.4 MIB Notifications (Release 6 to 7)
The KPI changes for Pre-7.0 features are listed below.
<See section 4.x and the embedded spread sheets>
KPIs for the new Optional features in DSR 7.0 are not listed. Please see the User Documentation for these new
Optional features for information on the available KPIs.
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6.5 IP Port changes (Release 6 to 7)
See Section 2.2.2 IPFE Enahancements: DSR Signaling Port Range Management (PR 232202)
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7 Reference List
DSR 7.0 User Guides for DSR (see customer documentation)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/oracle-comms-tekelec2136003.html
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DSR 7.0 Release Notice
Feature Notice
Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Guide
Communication Agent User Guide
Roadmap to Hardware Documentation (Gen8)
Policy DRA (P-DRA) User Guide
Diameter User Guide
Mediation User Guide
Gateway Location Application (GLA) User Guide
Range Based Address Resolution (RBAR) User Guide
Full Address Based Resolution (FABR) User Guide
Charging Proxy Application (CPA) and Offline Charging Solution User Guide
IP Front End (IPFE) User Guide
DSR Alarms, KPIs, and Measurements
DSR Administration Guide
Installation, Upgrade, and Disaster Recovery
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