Basic Systems Configuration

Feature Summary and Revision History

Summary Data

Table 1. Summary Data

Applicable Product(s) or Functional Area

PCF

Applicable Platform(s)

SMI

Feature Default Setting

Enabled – Configuration required to disable

Related Documentation

Not Applicable

Revision History

Table 2. Revision History

Revision Details

Release

First introduced.

2020.05.01

Overview

The PCF provides the Policy Builder as an interface for policy management. Policies translate a Service Provider’s business rules into actionable, logical processing methods that the PCF enforces on the network.

The PCF provides some standard base policies that creates a starting point for customization to suit a Service Provider's specific business rules.

Adding a System

This section describes how to add a system.

After installation, use this procedure to set up your Policy Builder by using an example populated with default data. You can change anything that does not apply to your deployment.

  1. Click the Reference Data tab, and then click the Systems node to display the Systems tree.

  2. Click System... under Create Child: to open the System pane on the right side.

  3. Fill in the Name field, and provide a description of this system. Enter the rest of the parameters based on your network requirements.

    Table 3. System Parameters

    Parameter

    Description

    Name

    The name of the PCF system.

    Description

    Describes the system using which you can uniquely identify the system.

    Session Expiration Hours

    An event occurs whenever a session is updated, which in turn increments the session expiry duration.

    If no session update event occurs in the specified session expiration duration (combination of Session Expiration Hours and Session Expiration Minutes), then the session will be removed.

    Note 

    The combined value of Session Expiration Hours multiplied by 60 plus Session Expiration Minutes should not exceed 35,400 minutes.

    Default value is 8.

    Session Expiration Minutes

    An event occurs whenever a session is updated, which in turn increments the session expiry duration.

    If no session update event occurs in the specified session expiration duration (combination of Session Expiration Hours and Session Expiration Minutes), then the session will be removed.

    Note 

    The combined value of Session Expiration Hours multiplied by 60 plus Session Expiration Minutes should not exceed 35,400 minutes.

    Default value is 0.