# Installation Guide

# Document Roadmap

The following sections describe the audience for, and the organization of, this document:

- Document Scope and Audience
- Guide to This Document
- Terminology
- Related Documentation

## Document Scope and Audience

This document describes the initial installation and setup of Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper including:

- Installation
- Domain configuration
- Post-installation steps

This document is primarily for support engineers and system administrators working with OCSG.

## Guide to This Document

This document contains the following chapters:

- “Document Roadmap” This chapter
- Gathering Materials Putting together what you need before you begin installing Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper
- Supported ConfigurationsChecking your basic hardware and software
- Installing the DatabaseSetting up your database for use with Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper
- Task Overview A high level outline of the installing and configuring tasks
- Installing Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper Running all versions of the installer
- Configuring the Domain for Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper Running all versions of the domain configuration tools
- Completing Post-Installation Completing final steps

Note: | You should follow the order of the chapters in installing your system, i.e., gather your materials, then install the database, and then install and configure Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper.

## Terminology

The following terms and acronyms are used in this document:

- Account—A registered application or service provider. An accounts belong to an account group, which is tied to a common SLA
- Account group—Multiple registered service providers or services which share a common SLA
- Administrative User—Someone who has privileges on the Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper management tool. This person has an administrative user name and password
- Alarm—The result of an unexpected event in the system, often requiring corrective action
- API—Application Programming Interface
- Application—A TCP/IP based, telecom-enabled program accessed from either a telephony terminal or a computer
- Application-facing Interface—The Application Services Provider facing interface
- Application Service Provider—An organization offering application services to end users through a telephony network
- AS—Application Server
- Application Instance—An Application Service Provider from the perspective of internal Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper administration. An Application Instance has a user name and password
- Communication Service—The type of data flow of a particular request through Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper, defined by the application-facing interface at the north and the network protocol at the south.
- End User—The ultimate consumer of the services that an application provides. An end user can be the same as the network subscriber, as in the case of a prepaid service, or they can be a non-subscriber, as in the case of an automated mail-ordering application where the subscriber is the mail-order company and the end user is a customer to this company
- Enterprise Operator —See Service Provider
- Event—A trackable, expected occurrence in the system, of interest to the operator
- HA —High Availability
- HTML—Hypertext Markup Language
- IP—Internet Protocol
- JDBC—Java Database Connectivity, the Java API for database access
- Location Uncertainty Shape—A geometric shape surrounding a base point specified in terms of latitude and longitude. It is used in terminal location
- MAP—Mobile Application Part
- Mated Pair—Two physically distributed installations of Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper nodes sharing a subset of data. This allows for high availability between the nodes
- MM7—A multimedia messaging protocol specified by 3GPP
- Network Plug-in—The Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper module that implements the interface to a network node or OSA/Parlay SCS through a specific protocol
- NS—Network Simulator
- OAM —Operation, Administration, and Maintenance
- Operator—The party that manages the Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper. Usually the network operator
- OSA—Open Service Access
- PAP—Push Access Protocol
- Plug-in—See Network Plug-in
- Plug-in Manager—The Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper module charged with routing an requests to the Interceptor stack.
- Quotas—Access rule based on an aggregated number of invocations. See also Rates
- Rates—Access rule based on allowable invocations per time period. See also Quotas
- Rules—A customizable set of criteria in addition to those specified in SLAs according to which requests can be evaluated
- SCF—Service Capability Function or Service Control Function, in the OSA/Parlay sense.
- SCS—Service Capability Server, in the OSA/Parlay sense. Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper can interact with these on its network-facing interface
- Service Capability—Support for a specific kind of traffic within Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper. Defined in terms of Communication Services
- Service Provider—See Application Service Provider
- SIP—Session Initiation Protocol
- SLA—Service Level Agreement
- SMPP—Short Message Peer-to-Peer Protocol
- SMS—Short Message Service
- SMSC—Short Message Service Centre
- SNMP—Simple Network Management Protocol
- SOAP—Simple Object Access Protocol
- SPA—Service Provider APIs
- SS7—Signalling System 7
- Subscriber—A person or organization that signs up for access to an application. The subscriber is charged for the application service usage. See End User
- SQL—Structured Query Language
- TCP—Transmission Control Protocol
- USSD—Unstructured Supplementary Service Data
- VAS—Value Added Service
- VLAN—Virtual Local Area Network
- VPN—Virtual Private Network
- WSDL —Web Services Definition Language
- XML—Extended Markup Language

## Related Documentation

This installation guide is a part of Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper documentation set. The other documents are:

- System Administrator’s Guide
- Concepts and Architectural Overview
- Integration Guidelines for Partner Relationship Management
- SDK User Guide
- Managing Accounts and SLAs
- Statement of Compliance and Protocol Mapping
- Application Development Guide
- Communications Service Reference
- Handling Alarms
- Licensing
- Platform Development Studio - Developer’s Guide
- Platform Test Environment
- RESTful Application Development Guide

Additionally, many documents in the WebLogic Server documentation set are of interest to users of Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper, including:

Additionally, many documents in the Oracle WebLogic Server documentation set are of interest to users of Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper, including:

- Introduction to Oracle WebLogic Server at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12840_01/wls/docs103/intro/
- Installation Guide at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12840_01/common/docs103/install/index.html
- Managing Server Startup and Shutdown at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12840_01/wls/docs103/server_start/
- Getting Started With WebLogic Web Services Using JAX-WS at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12840_01/wls/docs103/webserv/index.html
- Developing Manageable Applications with JMX at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12840_01/wls/docs103/jmxinst/
- Configuring and Using the WebLogic Diagnostics Framework at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12840_01/wls/docs103/wldf_configuring/
- Using Clusters at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12840_01/wls/docs103/cluster/
- Securing WebLogic Server at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12840_01/wls/docs103/secmanage/