Configuring Service Manager

This chapter describes how to use the Service Manager application to define, activate, and monitor networking services for your subscribers. This chapter discusses the following topics:

• Service Manager Overview
• Service Manager Terms and Acronyms
• Service Manager Platform Considerations
• Service Manager References
• Configuring Service Manager
• Service Definitions Overview
• Creating Service Definitions
• Managing Your Service Definitions
• Overview of Referencing Policies in Service Definitions
• Referencing QoS Configurations in Service Definitions
• Specifying QoS Profiles in Service Definitions
• Specifying QoS Parameter Instances in a Service Definition
• Modifying QoS Configurations with Service Manager
• Removing QoS Configurations Referenced by Service Manager
• QoS for Service Manager Considerations
• Configuring the Service Manager License
• Overview of Managing and Activating Service Sessions
• Overview of Managing Subscriber Service Sessions Using RADIUS
• Activating Subscriber Service Sessions Using RADIUS
• Understanding Service Manager RADIUS Attributes
• Deactivating Service Sessions Using RADIUS
• Overview of Activating and Deactivating Subscriber Services Using Mutex Groups
• Activating and Deactivating Multiple Services
• Configuring a Mutex Service
• Combined and Independent IPv4 and IPv6 Services in a Dual Stack Overview
• Activation and Deactivation of IPv4 and IPv6 Services in a Dual Stack
• Understanding RADIUS Accounting for Service Manager
• Service Interim Accounting Overview
• Configuring Service Interim Accounting
• Service Interim Accounting for IPv4 and IPv6 Services in a Dual Stack Overview
• Overview of Managing Subscriber Service Sessions Using the CLI
• Overview of Activating Subscriber Service Sessions Using the CLI
• Activating Subscriber Sessions Using the CLI
• Preprovisioning Service Sessions
• Service Session Profiles Overview
• Working with Service Session Profiles
• Overview of Deactivating Subscriber Service Sessions Using the CLI
• Gracefully Deactivating Subscriber Service Sessions
• Forcing Immediate Deactivation of Subscriber Service Sessions
• Using Service Session Profiles to Deactivate Service Sessions
• Configuring Service Manager Statistics
• Service Manager Performance Considerations
• Example: Tiered Service Definition
• Example: Video-on-Demand Service Definition
• Example: Voice-over-IP Service Definition
• Guided Entrance Service Overview
• Example: Guided Entrance Service Definition
• Using CoA Messages with Guided Entrance Services
• Configuring the HTTP Local Server to Support Guided Entrance
• Redirection of Subscriber Sessions When HTTP Local Server is Disabled or Not Configured
• Example: Combined IPv4 and IPv6 Service in a Dual Stack Service Definition
• Preservation of the Original URL During Redirection of Subscriber Sessions
• Configuring the Preservation of the Original URL During Redirection of Subscriber Sessions