Cisco Prime Network User Guide, 5.2

Address Range

IP addresses defined for the pool.

Port Range Lower

Lower end of the port range for the interface. If no range is specified, all possible Voice over IP (VoIP) port numbers are valid.

Port Range Upper

Upper end of the port range for the interface.

VRF Name

VRF that the interface is assigned to.

Service Class

Class of service (CoS) for each port range, such as fax, signaling, voice, or any.

H248 Controller

H.248 controller used by the DBE.

The Media Gateway Configuration (MGC) table displays the following information:

• Index—The number of the H.248 controller. The profile is used to interoperate with the SBE.
• Remote IP—The remote IP address for the H.248 controller.
• Remote Port—The remote port for the H.248 controller.
• Transport—The transport for communications with the remote device.

H248 Interface

The SBC H248 Control Interface table displays the following information:

• IP Address:

– In DM mode, the local IP address of the DBE used to connect to the SBE.

– In UM mode, the local IP address used to connect to the media gateway.

• Port—The port for the H.248 controller interface.
• Transport—The transport the H.248 controller interface uses.
• Association—The relationship between the SBE and the media gateway.

AAA Interface

The SBE AAA Interface table displays the following information:

• AAA Address—The local AAA interface address.
• Network ID—A unique identifier for the SBE.

Accounting

The Accounting Radius Client table displays the following information:

• Name—The name of the accounting client.
• Client Type—The type of client, either Accounting or Authentication.

Authentication

The Authentication Radius Client table displays the following information:

• Name—The name of the authentication client.
• Client Type—The type of client, either Accounting or Authentication.

Billing

The SBE Billing table displays the following information related to billing:

• LDR Check Time—The time of day (local time) to run the long duration record check.
• Local Billing Address—The local IP address for SBE billing. This IP address can be different from the local AAA IP address and is the IP address written in the bill records.
• Admin Status—The configuration status, available with the running-config command.
• Operational Status—The running status, available from the CLI. This entry indicates whether or not the billing interface is up. The status is derived from the interworking of the SBC and the AAA server.

H248 Interface

The SBC H248 Control Interface table displays the following information:

• IP Address:

– In DM mode, the IP address used to connect the DBE and the MGC.

– In UM mode, the IP address used to connect the SBC and the media gateway.

• Port—The port for the H.248 controller interface.
• Transport—The transport the H.248 controller interface uses.
• Association—The relationship between the SBE and the media gateway.

Media Gateway

The Media Gateway table displays the following information:

• IP Address—The IP address of the media gateway.
• Codec List—A comma-separated list of the codecs supported.

Blacklist

The Blacklists table contains the following information:

• Name—The blacklist name.
• Type—The type of source that this blacklist applies to, such as critical or normal.

CAC Policy

A Call Admission Control (CAC) policy is used to define admission control.

The SBE CAC Policy Set table contains the following information:

• Policy Set Number—An identifying number the SBE has assigned to the policy set.
• First Table—A CAC policy table.
• Status—Whether the policy is active or inactive. If the policy is active, the SBC applies the defined rules to events.
• First CAC Scope—The scale that the CAC applies for, such as source adjacency or destination adjacency. This is the first CAC table used for CAC policy match.
• Description—A brief description of the policy set.

Call Policy

A call policy set is used for number analysis and routing.

The SBE Call Policy Set table contains the following information:

• Policy Set Number—An identifying number the SBE has assigned to the policy set.
• Status—Whether the policy is active or inactive. If the policy is active, the SBC applies the defined rules to events.
• First Call Table—The first call table used for call policy match.
• Description—A brief description of the policy set.

Codec List

The SBE Codec List table contains the following information:

• Name—The name of the codec list.
• Codecs—The codecs contained in each list.

Current Blacklisting

The Current Blacklistings table contains the following information:

• Type—The type of source this blacklist applies to. Blacklists are used to block certain VoIP services that meet specified conditions.
• Event Type—The type of event this blacklist applies to, such as CORRUPT_MESSAGE.
• Is All Source Addresses—Whether the blacklist applies to all source IP addresses:

– True—Ignore any IP address in the Source Address field.

– False—Use the IP address in the Source Address field.

• Source Address—The IP address that this blacklist applies to.
• Source Port Number—The port number that this blacklist applies to.
• Source Port Type—The type of port this blacklist applies to. All is a valid entry.
• Time Remaining—The amount of time, in hours, minutes, or seconds, before the blacklist is removed.

Hunting Trigger

The hunting trigger enables the SBC to search for other routes or destination adjacencies if an existing route fails.

The Global Hunting Trigger List table contains the following information:

• Hunting Mode—Indicates the protocol to use to search for routes, such as Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).
• Hunting Triggers—The SIP responses, such as 468 or 503, that indicate the SBC is to search for an alternate route or destination adjacency. SIP responses are defined in RFC3261.

QoS Profile

QoS profiles can be used by CAC policies and are used exclusively for marking IP packets.

The QoS Profile table contains the following information:

• Name—The name of the QoS profile.
• Class of Service—The type of call this profile applies to, such as voice, video, signaling, or fax.
• Marking Type—The type of marking to be applied to the IP packet. Options include Passthrough, Differentiated Service Code Point (DSCP), and IP Precedence/ToS.
• IP Precedence—If the marking type is IP Precedence, the specified precedence, either 0 or 1.
• ToS—If the marking type is ToS, the ToS value.
• DSCP—If the marking type is DSCP, the DSCP value.

SDP

The Session Description Protocol (SDP) content pane contains the following tabs, each with their respective table:

• SBE SDP Policy Table:

– Instance Name—The name of the policy table.

– SBE SDP Match Table—The name of the SDP match table.

• SBE SDP Match Table:

– Instance Name—The name of the SDP match table.

– Match Strings—The match criteria.

– Table Type—The type of table, either Blacklist or Whitelist.

SIP Account

The SBE Account table contains the following information:

• Name—The name of the account associated with the adjacencies.
• Adjacencies—The identified adjacencies.

SIP Adjacency

An adjacency represents a signaling relationship with a remote call agent. One adjacency is defined per external call agent. Each adjacency belongs within an account. Each incoming call is matched to an adjacency, and each outgoing call is routed out over a second adjacency.

The SBC SIP Adjacencies table contains the following information:

• Name—The adjacency name.
• Status—The status of the adjacency, either Attached or Detached.
• Signaling Address—The local IP address and port (optional) for communications.
• Signaling Peer—The remote IP address and port (optional) for communications.
• Description—A brief description of the adjacency.

SIP Adjacency Group

The Adjacencies Groups table contains the following information:

• Name—The name of the SIP adjacency group.
• Adjacencies—The adjacencies that belong to the group.

SIP Profile

The SBC can be configured with whitelist and blacklists profiles on SIP messages. The following types of SIP profiles are available:

• Header profile—A profile based on SIP header information.
• Method profile—A profile based on SIP method strings.
• Option profile—A profile based on SIP option strings.
• Parameter profile—A profile based on SIP parameters.

SIP Profile >
Header Profile

The SIP Header Profiles table contains the following information:

• Name—The name of the SIP header profile.
• Status—Whether or not the profile is in use.
• Profile Type—The type of profile:

– Whitelist—Accepts SIP requests that match the profile.

– Blacklist—Rejects SIP requests that match the profile.

• Description—A brief description of the profile.

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Method Profile

The SIP Method Profiles table contains the following information:

• Name—The name of the SIP method profile.
• Status—Whether or not the profile is in use.
• Profile Type—The type of profile:

– Whitelist—Accepts SIP requests that match the profile.

– Blacklist—Rejects SIP requests that match the profile.

• Description—A brief description of the profile.
• Is Passthrough—Whether or not passthrough is enabled:

– True—Permits message bodies to be passed through for nonvital methods that match this profile.

– False—Strips the message body out of any nonvital SIP messages that match this profile.

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Option Profile

The SIP Option Profiles table contains the following information:

• Name—The name of the SIP option profile.
• Status—Whether or not the profile is in use.
• Profile Type—The type of profile:

– Whitelist—Accepts SIP requests that match the profile.

– Blacklist—Rejects SIP requests that match the profile.

• Description—A brief description of the profile.
• Options—The SIP option strings that define this profile, such as host user-agent, refer redirect, or replaces.

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Parameter Profile

The SIP Parameter Profiles table contains the following information:

• Name—The name of the SIP parameter profile.
• Status—Whether or not the profile is in use.
• Description—A brief description of the profile.

SIP Timer

The SBE SIP Timer table contains the following information:

• TCP Connect Timeout—The time, in milliseconds, that the SBC waits for a SIP TCP connection to a remote peer to complete before failing that connection. The default is 1000 milliseconds.
• TCP Idle Timeout—The minimum time, in milliseconds, that a TCP socket does not process any traffic before it closes the connection. The default is 120000 milliseconds (2 minutes).
• TLS Idle Timeout—The minimum time, in milliseconds, that a Transport Layer Security (TLS) socket does not process traffic before it closes the connection.
• Invite Timeout—The time, in seconds, that the SBC waits for a final response to an outbound SIP invite request. The default is 180 seconds. If no response is received during that time, an internal request timeout response is generated and returned to the caller.
• UDP First Retransmit Interval—The time, in milliseconds, that the SBC waits for a UDP response or ACK before sending the first retransmission of a signal. The default value is 500 milliseconds.
• UDP Max Retransmit Interval—The maximum time interval, in milliseconds, for an SBC to retransmit a signal. The maximum retransmission interval is 4000 milliseconds (4 seconds).
• UDP Response Linger Period—The time, in milliseconds, for which the SBC retains negative UDP responses to invite requests. The default value is 32000 milliseconds (32 seconds).