show ims-authorization

This chapter describes the outputs of the show ims-authorization command.

show ims-authorization policy-control statistics

Table 1. show ims-authorization policy-control statistics Command Output Descriptions
Field Description

DPCA Session Stats

Total Current Sessions

The total number of DPCA session currently running on this system.

Total IMSA Adds

The total number of IP multimedia subsystem applications (IMSAs) added to service.

Total DPCA Starts

The total number of Diameter Policy Control Applications (DPCAs) started.

Total Secondary Create

The total number of secondary contexts created.

Total Secondary Terminate

The total number of secondary contexts deleted.

Total Session Updates

The total number of updates applied for session/s.

Total Terminated

The total number of Diameter Policy Control Application sessions terminated.

DPCA Session Failovers

The total number of Diameter Policy Control Application sessions failed.

DPCA Message Stats

Total messages Received

Total policy control messages received for IMS authorization policy control.

Total Messages Sent

Total messages sent to IMS authorization policy control server.

Total CCR

Total Credit Control Request (CCR) messages received.

Total CCA

Total Credit Control Answer (CCA) messages sent in response to CCRs.

CCR-Initial

Total number of initial CCR messages received.

CCA-Initial

Total number of initial CCA messages sent in response to initial CCR messages.

CCA-Initial Accept

Total number of initial CCA messages accepted in response to initial CCR messages.

CCA-Initial Reject

Total number of initial CCA messages rejected in response to initial CCR messages.

CCA-Initial Timeouts

Total number of initial CCA messages timed out in response to initial CCR messages.

CCR-Update

Total number of Credit Control Request (CCR) messages received after initial CCR for update.

CCA-Update

Total Credit Control Answer (CCA) messages sent in response to update CCRs.

CCA-Update Timeouts

Total Credit Control Answer (CCA) messages sent in response to update CCRs but timed out.

CCA-Update Errors

Total number of errors in parsing the CCA-Update Message.

CCR-Final

Total number of final CCR messages received to end application.

CCA-Final

Total number of final CCA messages sent in response to final CCR messages to end session/s.

CCA-Final Timeouts

Total number of final CCA messages sent in response to final CCR messages to end session/s but timed out.

CCA-Final Errors

Total number of errors in parsing the CCA-Terminate Message.

ASR

Total number of Abort-Session-Requests (ASRs) received.

ASA

Total number of Abort-Session-Accept (ASA) messages sent in response to Abort-Session-Requests (ASRs).

RAR

Total number of Re-Auth-Requests (RARs) received for re-authorization.

RAA

Total number of Re-Auth-Requests (RARs) answered with Re-Auth-Answer (RAA) message.

DPCA Message Error Stats

Diameter Protocol Errs

Total number of errors related to Diameter protocol.

Bad Answers

Total number of errors related to invalid response/answers.

Unknown Session Reqs

Total number of errors related to unknown session requests.

Unknown Command Code

Total number of errors related to unknown command codes.

Unsupported Command Code

Total number of errors related to unsupported command codes.

Unk Failure Handling

Total number of errors related to unknown handling of failures.

DPCA Termination Cause Stats

Diameter Logout

Total number of DPCA session termination due to Diameter logout.

Service Not Provided

Total number of DPCA session termination due to unavailability of service.

Bad Answer

Total number of DPCA sessions terminated due to invalid/bad response reason.

Administrative

Total number of DPCA sessions terminated due to administrative reasons.

Link Broken

Total number of DPCA sessions terminated due to link broken.

Auth Expired

Total number of DPCA sessions terminated due to authorization expired.

User moved

Total number of DPCA sessions terminated as subscriber/user moved to unknown/non-service area.

Session Timeout

Total number of DPCA sessions terminated due to timed out reason.

Auth Rejected

Total number of DPCA sessions terminated due to authorization rejected.

Other Errors

Total number of DPCA sessions terminated due to unknown reasons or reasons not listed in this list.

DPCA Experimental Result Code Stats:

Statistics of the number of times the specific Experimental-Result-Code value was received in the Diameter Gx Credit-Control-Answer (CCA) from the PCRF per IMSA service.

Error Initial Parameters

The number of times DIAMETER_ERROR_INITIAL_PARAMETERS (5140) Experimental-Result-Code value was received in the Diameter Gx CCA.

Error Trigger Event

The number of times DIAMETER_ERROR_TRIGGER_EVENT (5141) Experimental-Result-Code value was received in the Diameter Gx CCA.

Bearer Not Authorized

The number of times DIAMETER_ERROR_BEARER_NOT_AUTHORIZED (5143) Experimental-Result-Code value was received in the Diameter Gx CCA.

Traffic Mapping Rejected

The number of times DIAMETER_ERROR_TRAFFIC_MAPPING_INFO_REJECTED (5144) Experimental-Result-Code value was received in the Diameter Gx CCA.

PCC Rule Event

The number of times DIAMETER_PCC_RULE_EVENT (5142) Experimental-Result-Code value was sent in the Diameter Gx Re-Auth-Request (RAR).

Conflicting Request

This error is used when the PCRF cannot accept the UE-initiated resource request as a network-initiated resource allocation is already in progress with packet filters that cover the packet filters in the received UE-initiated resource request.

Bearer Event

This error is used when a PCC rule for some reason cannot be enforced or modified successfully in a network initiated procedure.

Bad Exp Result Code

The number of times an unknown Experimental-Result-Code value (apart form the ones recognized in CCA that are listed above PCC Rule Event) was received in the Diameter CCA.

Session Release Cause

Unspecified Reason

The total number of sessions released due to unspecified reasons.

UE Subscription Changed

The total number of sessions released due to a change in the UE subscription.

Insuffcnt Srvr Resource

The total number of sessions released due to insufficient server resources.

DPCA Failure Handling Stats

Connection Based FH

Total Message Timeouts

Total number of response message timeouts, i.e. PCRF failed to respond within the configured timeout value.

CCA-Initial

Response to the CCR-I message was timed out.

CCA-Update

Response to the CCR-U message was timed out.

CCA-Terminate

Response to the CCR-T message was timed out.

Total Message Send Errs

Total number of requests failed to be sent due to socket based send errors.

CCR-Initial

CCR-I failed to be sent due to socket based errors.

CCR-Update

CCR-U failed to be sent due to socket based errors.

CCR-Terminate

CCR-T failed to be sent due to socket based errors.

Result Code Based FH

Configured Result Code

Failure handling being undertaken due to configured result code range.

CCA-Initial

Failure handling being undertaken due to configured result code range for CCA-Initial messages.

CCA-Update

Failure handling being undertaken due to configured result code range for CCA-Update messages.

CCA-Terminate

Failure handling being undertaken due to configured result code range for CCA-Terminate messages.

Unh and Unk Result Code

Failure handling being undertaken due to a result code which is neither defined in the diameter or customer specs.

CCA-Initial

Failure handling being undertaken due to unknown result code for CCA-Initial messages.

CCA-Update

Failure handling being undertaken due to unknown result code for CCA-Update messages.

CCA-Terminate

Failure handling being undertaken due to unknown result code for CCA-Terminate messages.

FH Behavior

Continue

Total number of times the failure handling action continue has been undertaken.

Retry-And-Continue

Total number of times the failure handling action retry-and-continue has been undertaken.

Retry-And-Terminate

Total number of times the failure handling action retry-and-terminate has been undertaken.

Terminate

Total number of times the failure handling action terminate has been undertaken.

Peer Switches

Attempted Switches

Total number of peer switches attempted.

Successful Switches

Total number of peer switches successful.



show ims-authorization policy-gate status full

IMPORTANT:

This command is no longer an option in StarOS release 11.0 and beyond.


Table 2. show ims-authorization policy-gate status full Command Output Descriptions
Field Description

CallID

Specifies Call Identifier.

IMSI

Specifies International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) of subscriber.

NSAPI

Specifies Network Service Access Point Identifier (NSAPI) to a single PDP context of the subscriber.

Charging Rule

Specifies dynamic charging rule applicable for specific flow through a policy gate in IMS authorization service.

Precedence

Displays the precedence of the dynamic charging rule applicable to specific flow.

Flow Status

Specifies the status of flow with specific charging rule. Possible states are:
  • Open
  • Closed
  • Dormant

Flow Dir

Specifies the direction of flow with specific dynamic charging rule applicable for specific flow through a policy gate in IMS authorization service. Possible states are:
  • Uplink
  • Downlink

Source Addr

Specifies the source IP address of flow with specific dynamic charging rule applicable for specific flow through a policy gate in IMS authorization service.

Source Addr Mask

Specifies the masking of source IP address of flow with specific dynamic charging rule applicable for specific flow through a policy gate in IMS authorization service.

Destination Addr

Specifies the destination IP address of flow with specific dynamic charging rule applicable for specific flow through a policy gate in IMS authorization service.

Destination Addr Mask

Specifies the masking of destination IP address of flow with specific dynamic charging rule applicable for specific flow through a policy gate in IMS authorization service.

Source Port

Specifies the IP port of flow origin with specific dynamic charging rule applicable for specific flow through a policy gate in IMS authorization service.

Destination Port

Specifies the destination IP port of flow end with specific dynamic charging rule applicable for specific flow through a policy gate in IMS authorization service.



show ims-authorization policy-gate counters all

IMPORTANT:

This command is no longer an option in StarOS release 11.0 and beyond.


Table 3. show ims-authorization policy-gate counters all Command Output Descriptions
Field Description

CallID

Specifies Call Identifier.

IMSI

Specifies International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) of subscriber.

NSAPI

Specifies Network Service Access Point Identifier (NSAPI) to a single PDP context of the subscriber.

Charging Rule

Specifies dynamic charging rule applicable for specific flow through a policy gate in IMS authorization service.

Gate State changed

Displays the change state of policy gate for specific subscriber flow.

Possible values are:
  • 0: No change
  • 1: Changed

Uplink Pkts Statistics

Displays the statistics of packets in uplink direction.

Downlink Pkts Statistics

Displays the statistics of packets in downlink direction.

Pkts processed

Displays the total number of packets received and processed.

Bytes processed

Displays the total number of bytes received and processed.

Pkts dropped

Displays the total number of packets received but dropped.

Bytes dropped

Displays the total number of bytes received but dropped.



show ims-authorization servers

Table 4. show ims-authorization servers ims-auth-service Command Output Descriptions
Field Description

Service Name

IMS authorization service name.

IMS Authorization Server

IMS authorization server name.

Server Type

IMS Authorization server type. It may be Policy, Charging, or both.

PCRF host

Identifies the Policy Control and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) host.

Operational State

Indicates operational state of the authorization server.

Server Session State

Indicates authorization server session state.

Server Statistics

Indicates authorization server session statistics.

Session Active

Total number of active authorization server sessions.

Session Opened

Total number of opened authorization server sessions.

Session Closed

Total number of closed authorization server sessions.

Sessions switched due to Tx Expiry

Total number of sessions switched due to transmission expiry.

Sessions switched due to reselection

Total number of sessions switched due to re-selection of authorization servers.

Server Up -> down indications

Total number of servers going to down state from up state.

Total servers matching specified criteria

Total number of servers matching the specified criteria.



show ims-authorization service name

Table 5. show ims-authorization service name Command Output Descriptions
Field Description

IMS Authorization Service Name

Name of IMS authorization service name.

Context

Name of the context in which IMS authorization service is configured.

Service State

State of the IMS authorization service.

Service mode

Mode of IMS authorization service for policy and charging.

Binding Mechanism

Describes the mechanism on the control of bearer resources based on a binding mechanism that binds one or more service to a bearer.

QoS Update Timeout

Specifies the timeout duration in seconds to discard QoS update request.

NOTE: QoS Update Timeout is no longer shown in StarOS release 11.0 and beyond.

Reauth Trigger

Specifies the Re-authorization trigger’s status.

P-CSCF Discovery

Specifies the configured route-table applicable for Proxy-Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF) discovery.

P-CSCF Selection Table[ n ]

Specifies the configured selection table information for Proxy-Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF) server selection.

[n] indicates the selection table number.

Diameter Policy Control

Specifies Diameter Policy Control related configuration and information.

Endpoint

Specifies Diameter endpoint name for Diameter Policy Control.

Origin-Realm

Specifies Diameter origin domain name for Diameter Policy Control.

Dictionary

Specifies the configured applicable dictionary for Diameter Policy Control.

Update-Dictionary-Avps

Indicates whether the 3GPP Rel. 8 AVPs or 3GPP Rel. 9 AVPs are selected for encoding.

Request Timeout

Indicates the configured request timeout value.

Reauth Trigger

Indicates the re-authorization trigger status.

Custom Reauth Trigger

Indicates enabled custom reauth event triggers.

Failure Handling

Specifies the configured mechanism for failure handling in Diameter Policy Control.

Peer Switch

Specifies the status of Peer switching for in Diameter Policy Control.

IMPORTANT:

This field has been deprecated in 8.1 and later releases.

Host Selection

Specifies host selection mechanism with selection table.

Host Reselection Subscriber Limit

Specifies the limit of subscriber bind to specific host origin to trigger re-selection of host.

Host Reselection Interval

Specifies time interval to trigger host re-selection for subscriber.

Host Selection Table[ n ]

Specifies the configured selection table information for host server selection.

[n] indicates the selection table number.

Precedence

Specifies the precedence applicable.

Primary Host

Specifies the primary name/IP address the host.

Secondary Host

Specifies the secondary name/IP address of the host.



show ims-authorization sessions full all

Table 6. show ims-authorization sessions full all Command Output Descriptions
Field Description

CallId

The call identifier.

Service Name

The IMS authorization service name.

IMSI

The International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) of subscriber.

Session ID

The session ID is of type UTF8String and is used to identify a specific session.

NSAPI

The Network Service Access Point Identifier (NSAPI) to a single PDP context of the subscriber.

Bearer Usage

Indicates the bearer usage for this session.

Bearer Type

Indicates the bearer type.

Bearer ID

Indicates the bearer identifier.

Context Type

Indicates the PDP context type: Primary or Secondary.

SGSN IP-Addr

IP address of the SGSN node.

APN

Indicates the Access Point Name (APN) for this service.

Bearer Control Mode

The bearer control mode: UE/NW

State

Indicates the session state.

Primary PCRF Server

The primary Policy Control and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) server host name.

Secondary PCRF Server

The secondary PCRF server host name.

Primary P-CSCF

The primary Proxy-Call Session Control Function gateway address.

Secondary P-CSCF

The secondary P-CSCF gateway address.

UE IP Address

UE IP Session Type

Specifies the type of the address assigned to the user. The possible valid values are IPv4, IPv6 and IPv4_IPv6.

IPv4 Address

Displays the IPv4 address assigned to the user.

IPv6 Address

Displays the IPv6 address assigned to the user.

Primary OCS

Hostname

Specifies the Primary-Event-Charging-Function-Name of type DiameterURI, or the address of primary online charging system.

Port

The port associated with the primary OCS.

Protocol

The protocol associated with the primary OCS.

Secondary OCS

Hostname

Specifies the Secondary-Event-Charging-Function-Name of type DiameterURI, or the address of secondary online charging system.

Port

The port associated with the secondary OCS.

Protocol

The protocol associated with the secondary OCS.

Primary CCF

Hostname

Specifies the Primary-Charging-Collection-Function-Name of type DiameterURI or the address of primary offline charging system for the bearer.

Port

The port associated with the primary CCF.

Protocol

The protocol associated with the primary CCF.

Secondary CCF

Hostname

Specifies the Secondary-Charging-Collection-Function-Name of type DiameterURI or the address of secondary offline charging system for the bearer.

Port

The port associated with the secondary CCF.

Protocol

The protocol associated with the secondary CCF.

Auth Decision

Parameters configured for authorization decision.

Event Triggers

Triggers for different events for Authorization decision.

Event Report Indication

Specifies which type of changes will trigger an event report from the PCRF.

QoS Policy

Specifies QoS policy for specific session.

QoS Class

The QoS class applicable to this session.

Max Uplink Bw(in bps)

The maximum bandwidth for uplink direction, in bps.

Max Downlink Bw(in bps)

The maximum bandwidth for downlink direction, in bps.

Guaranteed Uplink Bw(in bps)

The guaranteed bandwidth for uplink direction, in bps.

Guaranteed Downlink Bw(in bps)

The guaranteed bandwidth for downlink direction, in bps.

Apn Uplink AMBR(in bps)

The APN uplink AMBR, in bps.

Apn Downlink AMBR(in bps)

The APN downlink AMBR, in bps.

Charging Rules

Dynamic charging rule applicable for specific session in IMSA service.

NOTE: Charging Rules are no longer shown in StarOS release 11.0 and beyond.

Rule Name

Name of the applicable dynamic charging rule.

Precedence

Precedence of the applicable dynamic charging rule.

Revalidation Time

Specifies the time at which the next CCR-U will be sent out for the Re-validation Timeout EVENT TRIGGER.

Session Packet Statistics

Specifies the session data statistics.

NOTE: Session Packet Statistics are no longer shown in StarOS release 11.0 and beyond.

Uplink Pkt Processed

Total number of packets processed in uplink direction.

Uplink Bytes Processed

Total number of bytes processed in uplink direction.

Uplink Pkt Dropped

Total number of packets dropped or not processed in uplink direction.

Uplink Bytes Dropped

Total number of bytes dropped or not processed in uplink direction.

Downlink Pkt Processed

Total number of packets processed in downlink direction.

Downlink Bytes Processed

Total number of bytes processed in downlink direction.

Downlink Pkt Dropped

Total number of packets dropped or not processed in downlink direction.

Downlink Bytes Dropped

Total number of bytes dropped or not processed in downlink direction.

Total sessions matching specified criteria

The total number of sessions matching the specified criteria.