Ultra Cloud Core 5G Policy Control Function, Release 2023.03

  • About this Guide
    • Conventions Used
    • Contacting Customer Support
  • UCC 5G PCF - Release Change Reference
    • Features and Changes Quick Reference
    • Feature Defaults Quick Reference
    • Message Threshold Per Endpoint
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
    • N5 Interface
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
    • Diameter Peer Load Rebalancing
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
  • About PCF
    • 5G Architecture
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Overview
        • Control Plane Network Functions
        • User Plane Network Function
      • Subscriber Microservices Infrastructure Architecture
      • Control Plane Network Function Architecture
    • PCF Overview
      • Product Description
        • Use Cases
          • Base PCF Configuration
          • Infrastructure
          • Interoperability with CHF
          • Interoperability with NRF
          • Configuring LDAP for Subscriber Query
          • Parity with 4G
          • VoNR
        • Deployment Architecture and Interfaces
          • PCF Architecture
          • PCF Deployment Architecture
          • Supported Interfaces
    • Deploying and Configuring PCF through Ops Center
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
        • PCF Ops Center
        • Prerequisites
      • Deploying and Accessing PCF
        • Deploying PCF
        • Accessing the PCF Ops Center
    • Smart Licensing
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Smart Software Licensing
        • Cisco Software Central
        • Smart Accounts/Virtual Accounts
        • Request a Cisco Smart Account
        • PCF Smart Licensing
        • Software Tags and Entitlement Tags
      • Configuring Smart Licensing
        • Users with Access to CSC
        • Users without Access to CSC
      • OAM Support
        • Monitoring and Troubleshooting Smart Licensing
    • PCF Rolling Software Update
      • Supported Upgrade Procedures
      • Introduction
      • Updating PCF
        • Rolling Software Update Using SMI Cluster Manager
          • Prerequisites
            • PCF Health Check
            • Preparing for Upgrade
            • Back Up SVN, Policy, and CRD Data
            • Back Up Ops Center Configuration
            • Back Up CEE and PCF Ops Center Configuration
          • Upgrading the PCF
            • Staging a New PCF Image
            • Triggering the Rolling Software Upgrade
            • Monitoring the Upgrade
          • Validating the Upgrade
            • Viewing the Pod Details
            • Verifying the Helm Status
            • Verifying the Pods
          • Rollback the Upgrade
            • Reloading PCF Ops Center Configuration
            • Updating PCF Ops Center Configuration
            • Restoring the Configuration from Back Up
    • 3GPP Specification Compliance for PCF Interfaces
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
        • Standards Compliance
      • Configuring Interfaces and Endpoints
    • Basic Systems Configuration
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Overview
      • Adding a System
    • Cisco Common Data Layer
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
        • Geographic Redundancy
          • Limitations
        • Stale Sessions Cleanup
          • Limitations
        • Synchronizing the Index Records
        • Architecture
      • How it Works
        • Processing of CDL Conflict Notification
        • Call Flows
          • CDL Endpoint Failure Call Flow
          • GR Call Flows
            • Indexing Shard Failure Call Flow
            • Slot Replica Set Failure Call Flow
          • Local and Remote Sites Receive Rx_STR Without Any Time Gap Call Flow
          • Local and Remote Sites Receive N5 Delete Request Without Any Time Gap Call Flow
      • Configuring Cisco Common Data Layer
        • Configuring the CDL Session Database and Defining the Base Configuration
        • Configuring Kafka in CDL
        • Configuring Zookeeper in CDL
      • Configuring the CDL Engine
      • Configuring the CDL Endpoints
        • Configuring the External Services
        • Associating the Datastore with the CDL Endpoint Service
      • Starting the Remote Index Synchronization
        • Viewing the Remote Index Synchronization Status
      • Configuring the Stale Session Cleanup Using the Unique Key
        • Sample Configuration
      • Stale Sessions Cleanup Troubleshooting Information
      • OAM Support
        • Statistics
    • Configuring HTTP or HTTPS and SSL for SBA Interface
      • Feature Summary
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
      • Configuring Support for HTTP or HTTPS and TLS
        • Configuring Server and Client Certificates
          • Obtaining the Private key
          • Verifying the Certificate Status
      • HTTP and SSL for SBA Interface OA&M Support
        • Statistics
    • Content Filtering
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • Configuration Support for Content Filtering
        • CiscoContentFilteringPolicy
    • Diameter Endpoint
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • Configuring the Node for the Diameter Endpoint Pod
    • Dummy N7 Notify Request
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
      • Configuration Support for the Dummy N7 Notify Request
        • Creating the STG for the N7 Notify Request
        • Configuring the Dummy N7 Notify Parameters
        • Configuring the Event Triggers
    • Dynamic ARP Functionality for PC and PV
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
      • Configuring CRD Table and RxSTGConfiguration AVP
        • Adding Rx_Dynamic_Capability and Rx_Dynamic_Vulnerability
        • Configuring RxSTGConfiguration AVP
      • Configuring CRD Table and N5STGConfiguration AVP
        • Adding N5_Dynamic_Capability and N5_Dynamic_Vulnerability
        • Configuring N5STGConfiguration AVP
      • OAM Support
        • Bulk Statistics Support
        • Modified Stats
    • Dynamic ARP Functionality for PL
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
      • Feature Configuration
        • Configuring N5STGConfiguration for Dynamic QoS ARP
    • Dynamic Rules and Table-Driven Charging Rules
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
        • Standards Compliance
        • Restrictions
      • Configuration Support for Dynamic and Table-Driven Charging Rules
        • TableDrivenQosDecision
        • TableDrivenDynamicPccRule
    • Flexible QoS Actions
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • Configuring QoS Actions on N7 Interface
        • OverrideSessionRule
    • Handling the Network Provided Location Information Requests
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
        • Considerations
        • Call Flows
          • NPLI in Rx RAR Call Flow
          • NPLI in Rx STA Call Flow
          • Required Access Information in STR Call Flow
          • NPLI in N5 Notify Call Flow
          • NPLI in N5 Delete Response Call Flow
          • Required Access Information in N5 Delete Request Call Flow
      • Enabling the NetLoc Feature
      • Support for NetLocAccessSupport
    • Heartbeat
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
        • Standards Compliance
      • Configuring the Cluster Load Attribute
    • LDAP and Sh Interface
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
        • Call Flows
          • Sh Interface Call Flow
      • Configuring PCF to use LDAP
        • Setting Up Additional Profile Data
        • Associating PCF with LDAP
    • Managing Custom Reference Data
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • Configuration Support for Importing CRD
        • Backing Up the Existing SVN Repository
        • Backing Up the Existing CRD
        • Removing the Existing CRD from MongoDB
        • Importing and Publishing the New CRD Schema
        • Importing the New CRD Table
    • Message Prioritization and Overload Handling
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
      • Feature Configuration
        • Configuring Inbound Message Overload Handling
          • Diameter Configuration
          • PCF Configuration
        • Configuring SBI-Message-Priority Prioritization
      • OAM Support
        • Bulk Statistics Support
    • Multiple Virtual IP Address
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
        • Architecture
      • How it Works
      • Configuration Support for Multiple Virtual IP Address
        • Configuring the REST Endpoints
        • Verifying the REST Endpoints Configuration
    • N5 Authorization
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
        • Architecture
        • Components
      • How it Works
        • Call Flows
          • All Bearers Are Rejected Call Flow
          • Few Bearers Are Rejected Call Flow
          • Existing Bearers Are Rejected Call Flow
        • Considerations
        • Limitations
      • Feature Configuration
        • Creating the STG Tables
        • Adding the N5AuthorizationSTGConfiguration Service
        • Configuring the Service Chaining
        • Rejecting the N5 Create Request with Missing MediaType IE
        • Setting Up the Delayed Message Schedule
        • N5 Profile
    • Network Repository Function Subscription to Notifications
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
        • Standards Compliance
      • Configuration Support for the NRF Subscription to Notifications
        • Configuring NRF with Multiple Base URLs
        • Configuring NRF for Registration
        • Configuring NRF for Discovery of Network Function
        • Troubleshooting Information
    • Network Slicing
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
        • Architecture
      • How it Works
        • Call Flows
          • Slice Validation and Slice-Specific Policy Generation Call Flow
      • Configuring the Network Slicing Feature
        • Configuring the Reject Requests Capability
        • Configuring the Custom Error Codes
        • Configuring the Allowed NSSAIs
      • Network Slicing OA&M Support
        • Statistics
    • NRF Interface
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
        • Standards Compliance
      • Configuring the PCF Profile
        • Defining the PCF Registration Status
      • Configuring the NRF Endpoint for Management Services
        • Configuring the NRF Endpoint Group
        • Configuring the Management Service
      • Configuring the NRF Endpoint for Discovery Service
        • Configuring the NRF Endpoint Group
        • Configuring the Discovery Service
        • Configuring the Local NF Endpoint
    • N28 Interface
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
        • Call Flows
          • Counter Subscription/Retrieval (N28 Session Creation)
          • Unsubscribe Counters (N28 Session Termination)
          • N28 Counter-Based Policy
            • N28 Virtual Service Details
          • Notification of Counter Changes from CHF
      • Configuration Support for the N28 Interface
        • SpendingLimitSubscription
        • RequestPolicyCounters
        • AvpServiceConfiguration
        • Troubleshooting
      • Configuring NF or Logical Groups
      • OAM Support
        • Statistics
    • Online Charging Enablement over N7 to SMF
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
        • Charging Information
        • Charging Data
        • Call Flows
          • Online and Offline Charging over N7 to SMF
          • Creating SM Policy
          • Updating SM Policy
          • Updating Notify SM Policy
      • Configuration Support for Online Charging
        • ChargingInformation
        • TableDrivenChargingDecision
    • PCF Integration with Access and Mobility Function
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
        • Call Flows
          • Create Policy Association
          • Update Policy Association
          • Delete Policy Association
          • Terminate Policy Association
          • Update Notification Call Flow
        • Standards Compliance
        • Limitations
      • Configuration Support for the N15 Access and Mobility Policies
        • Configuring the N15 Policy Service
          • Configuring the N15 Policy Triggers
          • Configuring the N15 Policy Retrievers
      • Configuring the Stale Session Timer
        • Removing Stale Sessions
    • Diameter Peer Load Rebalancing
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
      • Feature Configuration
        • View the Diameter Peer Connections Per Pod
        • Diameter Peer Disconnection
    • Persistent Storage for Policy Configuration
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
      • Configuring Persistent Storage
        • Enabling Support for Persistent Storage
        • Assigning Persistent Storage
      • Configuring the Restore Capability
    • Pods and Services
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
        • Pods
        • Services
        • Ports and Services
        • Limitations
      • Configuration Support for Pods and Services
        • Associating Pods to the Nodes
        • Viewing the Pod Details and Status
          • States
    • Policy Tracing and Execution Analyzer
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
        • Architecture
      • How it Works
      • Configuration Support for the Policy Traces
        • Setting Up the Trace Database
        • Configuring the Trace Microservice Pod
        • Executing the Tracing Scripts
          • Managing the Trace Rules
          • Managing the Trace Results
    • Policy Control Request Triggers Over N7
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
        • Handling Out of Credit over N7
      • Configuring the Policy Control Request Trigger Events over N7
    • Predefined Rules and Rulebase
      • Feature Summaryand Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • Configuration Support for Rule and Rulebase
    • Rx Authorization
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
        • Architecture
        • Components
      • How it Works
        • Call Flows
          • All Bearers Are Rejected Call Flow
          • Few Bearers Are Rejected Call Flow
          • Existing Bearers Are Rejected Call Flow
        • Considerations
        • Limitations
      • Configuration Support for Rx Authorization
        • Creating the STG Tables
        • Adding the RxAuthorizationSTGConfiguration Service
        • Configuring the Service Chaining
        • Rejecting the AAR with the Missing Media-Type AVP
        • Setting Up the Delayed Message Schedule
        • Rx Client
    • Rx Interface for 4G and 5G
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
        • Relationships
      • How it Works
      • Routing the Rx Diameter Requests
        • Configuring RxSTGConfiguration AVP
    • Site Isolation
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
        • Prerequisites
      • Configuring the Site Isolation Feature
        • Configuring the PCF Registration Status
        • Bringing Down the Primary Site
        • Determining the Pod Status
        • Bringing Up the Primary Site
        • Verifying if the Sessions are Synchronized
        • Verifying if the Primary Site is Up
    • Simless Emergency Feature
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
      • Feature Configuration
        • Add DNN to the Emergency DNN List
        • Update DNN Table
        • Add Is Emergency Variable in the Policy
    • Service
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
        • Service
          • Adding a Service
      • Service Configuration
      • Use Case Templates
        • Configuring the Use Case Template
      • GenericServiceConfiguration
      • Common Parameters
    • Session Queries over LDAP
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
        • NAP Notifications
        • LDAP Queries
        • Call Flows
          • NAP Notification Call Flow
          • LDAP Server Initialization Call Flow
      • Enabling the Policy Server to Process the NAP and LDAP Queries
        • Configuring the gRPC Endpoint for PCF
        • Configuring the Forwarding Capability
      • Configuration Support for PCF-NAP Requests
        • Prerequisites for PCF-NAP Requests
        • Configuring the Unified API
        • Setting a Limit on NAP Requests
      • Configuration Support for LDAP Endpoint
        • Configuring the LDAP Endpoint
        • Setting a Limit on LDAP Search Request
      • OAM Support
        • Statistics
    • Specification Compliance - N7 and N28
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
        • Relationships
        • Components
          • N15 Interface
          • N28 Interface
          • N7 Interface
          • N5 Interface
          • Rx Interface
      • Configuration Support for the N7 and N28 Interface
        • SessionRule
        • SessionRuleAction
        • SessionRuleConditionData
        • QosData
        • TableDrivenQosDecision
        • TableDrivenDynamicPccRule
        • Use Case Initiators
          • Conditions of Input Variables
        • Retrievers
          • Configuring Retrievers through Custom Reference Data Table
          • Configuring Retrievers through Service Configuration
    • Status Monitoring Using Commands
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • Viewing the Connection and Registration Status
      • Viewing the NFs Connected to PCF
      • Viewing the Discovered Endpoint
      • Fetching the Subscriber Sessions
        • Prerequisites for Fetching Subscriber Sessions
          • Configuring the Configuration File
            • Verifying the Contents of the Configuration File
            • Deleting the Configuration File
        • Viewing the Subscriber Session Details
    • UDR Interface
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
        • API Details
        • Parameter Details
          • AMPolicy Query Parameters
          • AmPolicyData
          • SmPolicy Query Parameters
          • SmPolicyData
      • How it Works
        • Call Flows
          • AM Policy Subscription Call Flow
          • SM Policy Subscription Call Flow
      • Configuring the UDR Base URL
      • Standards Compliance
      • Filtering the Profile Data
    • Update Requests Toward CHF
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
        • Standards Compliance
      • Configuration Support for Setting up the Update Requests
        • TableDrivenActionOverN28
        • SpendingLimitSubscription
      • Use Case Template Actions
      • Troubleshooting Information
    • VoNR through the Rx Interface
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
        • Prerequisites
      • How it Works
        • Call Flows
          • Session Create, Update, and Terminate Call Flow
          • Binding Database Query Failures Call Flow
          • Binding Database Query Call Flow
          • PCF Failover Call Flow
        • Standards Compliance
        • Limitations
      • Enabling Interaction Between PCF and PCRF for VoNR Calls
        • Configuring the Interface Between PCF and PCRF
      • VoNR through Rx Interface OA&M Support
        • Statistics
    • Advanced Tuning Parameters
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • Configuration Support for the Advanced Tuning Parameters
        • Configuring the Async Threading Parameters
        • Configuring the HTTP2 Threading Parameters
        • Configuring the N7 Stale Session Error Codes
        • Configuring the Message Threshold Per Endpoint
        • Configuring the HTTP2 Heap Memory Tuning
      • OAM Support
        • Bulk Statistics Support
    • PCF Application-Based Alerts
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
      • Configuring Alert Rules
        • Viewing Alert Logger
      • Sample Alerts Configuration
        • Interface-Specific Alerts
        • Message-Level Alerts
        • Process-Level Alerts
        • Call Flow Procedure Alerts
        • System Alerts
    • Event Logs
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Feature Description
      • How it Works
      • Viewing the Logs
      • Troubleshooting Information
    • Troubleshooting Information
      • Feature Summary and Revision History
        • Summary Data
        • Revision History
      • Debugging the PCF Deployment Issues
      • Issue with Refreshing the PCF Ops Center
      • Subscriber Not Found or Primary Key Not Found
      • Message Routing Issues
      • Collecting the Troubleshooting Information
      • Interface Error Codes
      • Forwarding logs to the Splunk Server
      • Pods stop running when PCF is upgraded through the Rolling Upgrade process
  • Sample PCF Configuration
    • Sample PCF Configuration
      • Sample Configuration File
  • Metrics Reference
    • Prometheus and Grafana
      • Feature Summary
        • Summary Data
      • Feature Description
        • How it Works
      • Managing the PCF Statistics
        • Viewing the Statistics
        • Accessing the Grafana Dashboard
        • Viewing the PCF Dashboard
        • Running a Query in Grafana
        • Configuring Autorefresh
        • Exporting and Importing Dashboards
          • Exporting Dashboards
          • Importing Dashboards
          • Exporting the Graph Data to CSV
        • Filtering the Graphs
      • Bulk Statistics
        • Configuring the Bulk Statistics Collection
        • Sample Queries for Bulk Statistics
        • Sample Configuration
        • Sample Bulk Statistics Configuration
    • Statistics and KPI Reference
      • PCF Statistics
        • PCF Service Category
        • PCF Endpoint Requests Category
        • PCF Diameter Stats Category
      • Interface KPIs
      • System KPIs
        • System Health Monitoring KPIs
        • System Status KPIs
        • System Configuration KPIs
        • CPU Category
        • Disk Category
        • File System Category
        • Load Category
        • Memory Category
        • Network Category
    • MIB Reference
      • CISCO-CNEE-MIB
      • CISCO-SMI
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