Capability to Record and Produce Call Transactions

Feature Summary and Revision History

Summary Data

Applicable Product(s) or Functional Area

ePDG

Applicable Platform(s)

  • ASR 5500

  • VPC-DI

  • VPC-SI

Feature Default

Disabled - Configuration Required

Related Changes in This Release

Not Applicable

Related Documentation

ePDG Administration Guide

Revision History

Revision Details

Release

ePDG supports capability to record and produce call transactions.

21.23

First Introduced.

Release 20

Feature Description

Real Time Tool (RTT) is used in Regions and Network Operations Center (NOC) for debugging network issues and to understand user behavior. All call transactions in ePDG are generated in RTT files. The ePDG support allows to understand service impact on the ePDG chassis for WLAN offload service. ePDG transfers RTT files to the external server through SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). The RTT files that are in comma separated values (.CSV) format are transferred either in compressed or non-compressed format based on the configuration to the external servers such as servers in customer network either directly or through the Cisco Collector server.


Note

RTT Record Schema and its procedure numbers are genericized to Gateway RTT. Contact your Cisco account representative for detailed information on specific RTT Record Schema.


How it Works

This section explains about RTT procedures and schema.

RTT Procedures

The following table lists the RTT procedures that are specific to ePDG, P-GW and SaMOG:

Procedure Number Procedure Name

Applicability

1

S5/S8/S2b GTP Create Session

P-GW, ePDG, SaMOG

2

S5/S8/S2b GTP Create Bearer

P-GW, ePDG, SaMOG

3

S5/S8/S2b GTP Delete Session

P-GW, ePDG, SaMOG

4

S5/S8/S2b GTP Delete Bearer

P-GW, ePDG, SaMOG

5

GTP Modify Bearer

P-GW

6

S5/S8/S2b GTP Update Bearer

P-GW, ePDG, SaMOG

7

S6b/SWm – Diameter AAR/ AAA

P-GW, ePDG, SaMOG

8

S6b/SWm – Diameter RAR/RAA

P-GW, ePDG, SaMOG

9

S6b/SWm – Diameter Session Termination

P-GW, ePDG, SaMOG

10

S6b – Abort Session

P-GW, ePDG, SaMOG

11

Diameter Gx – CCR-I/CCA-I

P-GW

12

Diameter Gx – CCR-U/CCA-U

P-GW

13

Diameter Gx – CCR-T/CCA-T

P-GW

14

Diameter Gx – RAR/RAA

P-GW

15

Diameter Gy – CCR-I/CCA-I

P-GW

16

Diameter Gy – CCR-U/CCA-U

P-GW

17

Diameter Gy – CCR-T/CCA-T

P-GW

18

Diameter Gy – RAR/RAA

P-GW

19

PMIPv6 S2a – Binding Update/Acknowledgement

P-GW

20

PMIPv6 S2a Revocation Update/Acknowledgement

P-GW

21

SWu – IKEv2 SA INIT/Resp

ePDG

22

SWu – IKEv2 Auth Req/Resp

ePDG

23

SWu – IKEv2 Information Req/Resp

ePDG

24

SWm – Diameter EAP Request/Answer

ePDG, SaMOG

25

ePDG Router Advertisement

ePDG, SaMOG

26

SWu – CREATE_CHILD_SA Req/Resp

ePDG

27

Radius – WLC-SaMOG Access Request/Challenge

SaMOG

28

Radius – WLC-SaMOG Access Request/Accept

SaMOG

29

Radius – WLC-SaMOG Disconnect Request/Response

SaMOG

30

Radius – WLC-SaMOG Accounting Request/Response

SaMOG

31

Radius – SaMOG-Radius Server Accounting Req/Res

SaMOG

32

WLC – SaMOG DHCP Discover/Offer

SaMOG

33

WLC – SaMOG DHCP Request/Ack/Nak

SaMOG

34

WLC – SaMOG DHCP Release/Ack/Nak

SaMOG

RTT Record Schema

Configuring RTT for ePDG

This section provides RTT configuration information for ePDG.

Enabling RTT to Record and Produce Call Transactions

Use the following configuration for enabling RTT to record and produce call transactions.

configure 
            context context_name 
              epdg-service service_name 
                [ no ] reporting-action event-record 
            end 

NOTES:

  • reporting-action event-record : Enables event reporting through RTT in ePDG.

  • no : Disables event reporting through RTT in ePDG.

Configuring RTT

Use the following CLI commands to configure the RTT feature in ePDG.

configure 
            context context_name 
              session-event-module 
                event transfer-mode push primary url URL_address 
                file name file_name|rotation volume volume_size|rotation time rotation_time|compression compression_type|extension extension_type 
                event use-harddisk 
                event remove-file-after-transfer 
                event push-interval interval_time      
             end 

NOTES:

  • transfer-mode : Enables the transfer mode in RTT.

  • push primary url : Specifies the external server location where the records are transferred from ePDG.

  • file name : Specifies the RTT file name where the records are stored.

  • rotation volume: The volume based on which the RTT file is generated.

  • rotation time: The time based on which the RTT file is generated.


    Note

    The RTT files are pushed to the external server based on the rotation volume or rotation time, whichever occurs first.


  • compression: Specifies the file compression type. If enabled, the RTT file is generated as a Gzip file, else it is generated as a normal file.

  • extension: Specifies the RTT file extension (.csv).

  • use-harddisk: Specifies hard disk as the storage space for the RTT file generation.

  • remove-file-after-transfer: Specifies RTT files to be removed after pushing the files to the external server.

  • push-interval: Specifies the push interval time at which the RTT file are transferred from ePDG to the external server.

Monitoring and Troubleshooting

This section provides information on how to monitor and troubleshoot using show commands to support this feature.

Show Commands and Output

This section provides information regarding show commands and their outputs for this feature.

show Event-Record Statistics ePDG

This command displays the number of RTT record types generated based on different event types.

Table 1. show event-record statistics ePDG Command Output Descriptions
Field Description

Total Number of Event Records

The total number of event records (GTPv2 + Diameter + IKE + RA).

GTPv2 Event Records

The total number of GTPv2 records

CSR

The total number of CSR (Create Session Request) events.

CBR

The total number of CBR (Create Bearer Request) events.

DSR

The total number of DSR (Delete Session Request) events.

DBR

The total number of DBR (Delete Bearer Request) events.

UBR

The total number of UBR (Update Bearer Request) events.

IKEv2 Event Records

The total number of IKE events.

IKE_SA_INIT

The total number of IKE_SA_INIT events.

IKE_AUTH

The total number of IKE_AUTH events.

IKE_INFORMATION

The total number of IKE_INFORMATION events.

CREATE_CHILD_SA

The total number of CREATE_CHILD_SA events.

IPV6 RA Event Records

The total number of IPV6 RA event records.

RA Prefix

The total number of RA prefix events.

Diameter Event Records

The total number of Diameter event records.

SWm Procedures

The total number of SWm interface specific events.

AAR

The total number AAR (AA-Request) events.

RAR

The total number of RAR (Re-Auth-Request) events

ASR

The total number of ASR (Abort Session Request) events

STR

The total number of STR (Session Termination Request) events.

DER

The total number of DER (DE-Request) events.