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Table Of Contents

Service Gateway Interface

Finding Feature Information

Contents

Restrictions for Service Gateway Interface

Information About Service Gateway Interface

ISG

BEEP

Benefits of SGI

How to Enable Service Gateway Interface

Configuring BEEP Listener Connection

Troubleshooting SGI

Configuration Examples for Service Gateway Interface

Configuring BEEP Listener Connection: Example

Additional References

Related Documents

Standards

MIBs

RFCs

Technical Assistance

Command Reference

Feature Information for Service Gateway Interface


Service Gateway Interface

First Published: July 25, 2008
Last Updated: September 22, 2008

The Service Gateway Interface (SGI) feature implements a web services interface to access the policy, subscriber, and session management functionality of the Intelligent Services Gateway (ISG). It allows application developers to author subscriber management applications using commonly available commercial and open source protocols, encoding, and toolkits.

ISG is a framework of components for the policy-based control of sessions and services on network devices. The SGI feature comprises the data model for policy and associated elements and the operational interface to provision, update, delete, and control activation of those policies.

Finding Feature Information

Your software release may not support all the features documented in this module. For the latest feature information and caveats, see the release notes for your platform and software release. To find information about the features documented in this module, and to see a list of the releases in which each feature is supported, see the "Feature Information for Service Gateway Interface" section.

Use Cisco Feature Navigator to find information about platform support and Cisco IOS and Catalyst OS software image support. To access Cisco Feature Navigator, go to http://www.cisco.com/go/cfn. An account on Cisco.com is not required.

Contents

•Restrictions for Service Gateway Interface

•Information About Service Gateway Interface

•How to Enable Service Gateway Interface

•Configuration Examples for Service Gateway Interface

•Additional References

•Command Reference

•Feature Information for Service Gateway Interface

Restrictions for Service Gateway Interface

The SGI feature does not support HTTP transport policies in Release 12.2(33)SRC.

No client has currently been developed to access the SGI feature in Release 12.2(33)SRC.

Information About Service Gateway Interface

Before you configure Service Gateway Interface you should understand the following concepts:

•ISG

•BEEP

•Benefits of SGI

ISG

ISG is a Cisco IOS software feature set that provides a structured framework in which edge devices can deliver flexible and scalable services to subscribers. See Overview of ISG for further information

BEEP

Block Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP) is a protocol standard that is scalable, efficient, simple, extensible, and robust. BEEP is a framework for designing application protocols.

Benefits of SGI

SGI is a protocol that allows Cisco IOS software to be controlled using third-party applications, toolkits, and development platforms for web services.

The SGI feature is a common model that can express ISG provisioning in many languages, and it is easy to use.

How to Enable Service Gateway Interface

This section contains the following tasks:

•Configuring BEEP Listener Connection (required)

•Troubleshooting SGI (optional)

Configuring BEEP Listener Connection

Perform this task to enable SGI.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. enable

2. configure terminal

3. sgi beep listener [port] [acl access-list] [sasl sasl-profile] [encrypt trustpoint]

4. command [keyword argument]

5. exit

DETAILED STEPS

 
Command or Action
Purpose

Step 1 

enable

Example:

Router> enable

Enables privileged EXEC mode.

•Enter your password if prompted.

Step 2 

configure terminal

Example:

Router# configure terminal

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 3 

sgi beep listener [port][acl access-list][sasl sasl-profile][encrypt trustpoint]

Example:

Router(config)# sgi beep listener 2089

Enables the SGI feature.

Step 4 

end

Example:

Router(config)# end

Exits global configuration mode.

Troubleshooting SGI

Perform this task to troubleshoot the SGI.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. enable

2. show sgi [session | statistics]

3. debug sgi [error | info | xml | gsi | isg-api | all]

4. test sgi xml filename

DETAILED STEPS

Step 1 enable

Enables privilege EXEC mode. Enter your password if prompted.

Step 2 show sgi [session | statistics]

Displays information about current SGI session. This command shows information about SGI sessions that have been started and are currently running, including the running state. It also shows statistical information about SGI sessions that have been started and are currently running. The following is sample output from this command: 

Router# show sgi session


sgi sessions: open 1(max 10, started 15

session id:1;started at 9:08:05; state OPEN


Router# show sgi statistics


sgi statistics

total messages received 45

current active messages 5; maximum active messages 7

total isg service requests 4

current active services 2; maximum active services 2


sgi process statistics

process sgi handler 1

pid 95, cpu percent (last minute) 1, cpu runtime 10(msec), memory accocated 4200 (bytes)

Step 3 debug sgi [error | info | xml | gsi | isg-api | all]

Enables debugging of SGI sessions. The following is sample output from this command when all debugging has been enabled: 

Router# debug sgi all


Router# show debug 
SGI:

SGI All debugging is on

SGI Errors debugging is on

SGI XML debugging is on

SGI Informational debugging is on

SGI Generic Service Interface debugging is on

SGI ISG_API Events debugging is on

SGI ISG_API Errors debugging is on

Router#



Router#

*Jul 1 20:55:11.364: SGI: Session created, session Id 7

*Jul 1 20:55:11.372: sgi beep listen app beep[0x66245188]: frame_available: type=M 
number=1 answer=-1 more=* size=1400


*Jul 1 20:55:11.372: sgi beep listen app beep[0x66245188]: Content-Type: application/xml


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

...

*Jul 1 20:55:11.372: sgi beep listen app beep[0x66245188]: frame_available: type=M 
number=1 answer=-1 more=. size=111


*Jul 1 20:55:11.372: sgi beep listen app beep[0x66245188]: gitypes:policyGroup>


</objects>

</sgiops:insertPolicyObjectsRequest>

...

*Jul 1 20:55:11.372: SGI: GSI message received, msgid 1, session 7

*Jul 1 20:55:11.376: SGI: XML parsed successfully, request insertPolicyObjectsRequest, 
msgid 1

*Jul 1 20:55:11.376: SGI: authentication request sent to AAA

*Jul 1 20:55:11.376: SGI: req = [0x67454088] authentication succeeded

*Jul 1 20:55:11.376: SGI: Processing insertPolicyObjectsRequest

*Jul 1 20:55:11.376: SGI: insertPolicyObjectsRequest processing policyGroup:VPDN1, type 1, 
result: 0

*Jul 1 20:55:11.376: SGI: Processing insertPolicyObjectsResponse

*Jul 1 20:55:11.376: SGI: GSI message sent, msgid 1, session 7

*Jul 1 20:55:12.088: sgi beep listen app beep[0x66245188]: close confirmation: status=+ no 
error origin=L scope=C

*Jul 1 20:55:12.088: SGI: Session terminating, session Id 7

Router#

Step 4 test sgi xml filename

Verifies the format of an SGI XML request. The XML file must be copied to the router before it can be used.

Configuration Examples for Service Gateway Interface

This section provides the following configuration examples:

•Configuring BEEP Listener Connection: Example

Configuring BEEP Listener Connection: Example

The following example shows how to configure the BEEP listener connection. The port number is set to 2089. 

enable

configure terminal

sgi beep listener 2089

Additional References

The following sections provide references related to the Service Gateway Interface feature.

Related Documents


Standards

Standard
Title

None

—


MIBs

MIB
MIBs Link

•None

To locate and download MIBs for selected platforms, Cisco IOS releases, and feature sets, use Cisco MIB Locator found at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/go/mibs


RFCs

RFC
Title

None

—


Technical Assistance

Description
Link

The Cisco Support website provides extensive online resources, including documentation and tools for troubleshooting and resolving technical issues with Cisco products and technologies.

To receive security and technical information about your products, you can subscribe to various services, such as the Product Alert Tool (accessed from Field Notices), the Cisco Technical Services Newsletter, and Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Feeds.

Access to most tools on the Cisco Support website requires a Cisco.com user ID and password.

http://www.cisco.com/techsupport


Command Reference

The following commands are introduced or modified in the feature or features documented in this module. For information about these commands, see the Cisco IOS Intelligent Services Gateway Command Reference at
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/isg/command/reference/isg_book.html. For information about all Cisco IOS commands, use the Command Lookup Tool at http://tools.cisco.com/Support/CLILookup or the Cisco IOS Master Command List, All Releases, at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/mcl/allreleasemcl/all_book.html.

•debug sgi

•sgi beep listener

•show sgi

•test sgi xml

Feature Information for Service Gateway Interface

Table 1 lists the release history for this feature.

Not all commands may be available in your Cisco IOS software release. For release information about a specific command, see the command reference documentation.

Use Cisco Feature Navigator to find information about platform support and software image support. Cisco Feature Navigator enables you to determine which Cisco IOS and Catalyst OS software images support a specific software release, feature set, or platform. To access Cisco Feature Navigator, go to http://www.cisco.com/go/cfn. An account on Cisco.com is not required.

Note Table 1 lists only the Cisco IOS software release that introduced support for a given feature in a given Cisco IOS software release train. Unless noted otherwise, subsequent releases of that Cisco IOS software release train also support that feature.

Table 1 Feature Information for Service Gateway Interface 

Feature Name
Releases
Feature Information

Service Gateway Interface

12.2(33)SRC

The SGI implements a web services interface to access the policy, subscriber, and session management functionality of ISG.

The following commands were introduced or modified: debug sgi, sgi beep listener, show sgi, test sgi xml.


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