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GR-310-CORE
Issue 3, December 2003
CCS OS - STP Interface Specification
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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–1
1.1 Purpose and Scope of This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–1
1.2 Related Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–4
1.2.1 STP Generic Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–5
1.2.2 SS7 Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–5
1.2.3 Lower-Layer Data Communications Protocol Specifications for this
Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–5
1.2.4 Application Message Language Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–7
1.2.5 Related CCS OS - CCS Node Messages Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . 1–7
1.2.5.1 CCS OS - STP Gateway Function Interface Specification . . . . . . 1–7
1.2.5.2 CCS OS - STP Interface for Local Number Portability (LNP)
Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–7
1.2.5.3 CCS OS - SCP Node Interface Message Specification . . . . . . . . 1–8
1.3 Client Migration to Successor OSs and OS-NE Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–8
1.3.1 Ongoing Use of this Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–8
1.3.2 Relationship to Competing Standard Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–8
1.3.3 Potential Migration Toward Alternative Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–9
1.4 Organization of This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–10
1.5 Requirements Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–12
1.6 Requirements Labeling Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–13
1.6.1 Numbering of Requirements Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–13
1.6.2 Requirement, Conditional Requirement, and Objective Object
Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–14
1.7 Reissuance of the Interface Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–14
1.7.1 Superseded Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–14
1.7.2 Reasons for Reissue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–14
1.7.3 Difference Markings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–15
1.7.4 Highlights of Revisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–15
1.7.5 Detailed Section Revision Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–18
1.8 Future Work (Excluded Capabilities and Data) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–37
2. Background: STP and CCS OS Functions and Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–1
2.1 The Common Channel Signaling Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–1
2.1.1 CCS Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–1
2.1.2 CCS Links, Link Sets, and Combined Link Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–2
2.2 STP Functional Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–3
2.2.1 STP Routing Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–3
2.2.2 STP Operations Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–3
2.3 CCS OS Functional Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–4
2.3.1 Measurement Data Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–5
2.3.2 Measurement Data Analysis and Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–6
2.3.3 Network Monitoring and Surveillance for Administration . . . . . . . . 2–6
2.3.4 CCS Network Traffic Management (NTM) Surveillance . . . . . . . . . . 2–7
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2.3.5 CCS Network Maintenance Surveillance . . . . . . . . . .
2.3.6 Recent Change and Verify (STP Memory Administration)
2.3.6.1 Recent Change Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.3.6.2 Logging and Reporting of Translation Errors . . . .
2.3.6.3 Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.3.7 Routing Verification Tests (RVTs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.3.8 Supporting Data Bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3. Functional Overview of the Application-Level Interface . . . . . .
3.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.2 Types of Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.3 Application Message Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.3.1 Data Collection Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.3.1.1 Scheduled-Polled Data Collection . . . . . . . . . . .
3.3.1.2 Scheduled-Autonomous Data Collection . . . . . . .
3.3.1.3 On-Demand Data Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.3.2 Recent-Change-and-Verify (Provisioning) Messages . . . .
3.3.3 On-Occurrence Autonomous Messages . . . . . . . . . . .
3.3.4 SEAS-to-STP Application Control Messages . . . . . . . .
3.3.5 Transparent-Mode (Flow-Through) Messages . . . . . . .
3.3.6 Routing Verification Test (RVT) Messages . . . . . . . . .
3.4 Message Priority and Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.5 Performance and Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.6 Implementation of this Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4. Message Headers and UPL/Lower-Layer Interactions . . . . . . .
4.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.1.1 Purpose of this Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.1.2 Data Communications Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.1.3 Support of the Interface Data Communications Protocols
4.2 UAL/X.25 Protocol Stack (TA-298) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2.1 Overview: The UAL and Its UPL Interactions . . . . . . . .
4.2.2 Description of the Interface Protocol Layers . . . . . . . .
4.2.2.1 Protocol Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2.2.2 Protocol Stack Functional Overview . . . . . . . . .
4.2.2.3 Transport Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2.2.3.1 X.25 Physical Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2.2.3.2 X.25 Link Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2.2.3.3 X.25 Packet Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2.2.4 Application Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2.2.4.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2.2.4.2 User Application Layer (UAL) Services . . . .
4.2.2.5 User Program Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2.3 Message Headers and Required Message Structure . . . .
4.2.3.1 Message Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2.3.2 UAL Message Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2.3.2.1 Version Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2.3.2.2 Confirmation Flag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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4.2.3.2.3 Control Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–12
4.2.3.2.4 Message ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–13
4.2.3.2.5 Segment ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–14
4.2.3.2.6 Total Number of Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–14
4.2.3.2.7 Destination Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–15
4.2.3.2.8 Destination Node Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–15
4.2.3.2.9 Source Node Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–15
4.2.3.2.10 Destination Routing Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–16
4.2.3.2.11 Error Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–16
4.2.3.2.12 Filler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–17
4.2.4 UAL/Lower Layer Protocol Interactions with the UPL . . . . . . . . . . 4–17
4.2.4.1 Overview of Required Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–17
4.2.4.2 Logical Channel Reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–18
4.2.4.3 UAL Message ID Generation for UPL Messages . . . . . . . . . . . 4–18
4.2.4.3.1 CCS OS Generation of the Message ID for Commands . . . . 4–18
4.2.4.3.2 STP Generation of the Message ID for STP-to-CCS OS
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–18
For STP Autonomous Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–18
For STP Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–18
4.2.4.4 UAL Header - UPL-Application-Message Interactions . . . . . . . . 4–20
4.2.4.4.1 Overview of UAL Header Fields Populated by the UPL . . . . 4–20
4.2.4.4.2 Destination and Source Node Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–20
4.2.4.4.3 Confirmation Flag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–21
4.2.4.4.4 Destination Priority and Routing Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–21
UPL Message Return Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–22
UAL Header Destination-Fields Population Procedure . . . . . . . . . 4–22
UPL Message Return Code Assignments in CCS OS Commands . . . . 4–23
4.2.4.4.5 Other UAL Parameters Set by the UPL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–24
4.3 TCP/IP Protocol Stack (SR-5129) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–24
4.3.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–24
4.3.2 Advantages of the SR-5129 Protocol Stack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–24
4.3.3 Protocol Stack Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–25
4.3.4 Application Message Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–26
4.3.4.1 Message Delimiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–27
4.3.4.2 Application Message Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–27
4.3.4.3 UPL Message Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–28
4.3.5 Application Layer/UPL Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–30
4.3.5.1 For CCS OS Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–30
4.3.5.2 For STP Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–31
4.3.5.3 For STP Autonomous Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–32
5. UPL Interactions and Message Syntax Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–1
5.1 Interaction Descriptions and Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–1
5.1.1 CCS OS Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–2
5.1.2 STP Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–2
5.1.2.1 Completion Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–3
5.1.2.2 Acceptance Acknowledgements Without Completion . . . . . . . 5–3
5.1.2.3 Exception Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–4
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5.1.2.3.1 Error Response on Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.1.2.3.2 Error Response on Execution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.1.2.3.3 Repeat-Later Responses on Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.1.3 STP Autonomous Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.1.4 UPL Message Duplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.1.5 Version Management Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.1.5.1 The Need for Version Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.1.5.2 Version-Management Mechanism for CCS OS Commands and STP
Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.1.5.3 Version Management Mechanism for STP Autonomous Messages .
5.1.5.4 Version Management Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2 General Application Message Syntax Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.1 Selected Language - Modified Telcordia MML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.2 General Message Format Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.2.1 Character Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.2.2 Message Format/Packaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.3 Conventions for MML Message Syntax Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.4 Overview of Syntax for the MML Subset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.4.1 Identifier Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.4.2 Parameter Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.4.3 Execute Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.4.4 General Message Descriptions by Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.5 CCS OS Command Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.5.1 Basic Elements of Command Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.5.1.1 Command Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.5.1.2 Command Parameter Blocks and Parameters . . . . . . . . .
5.2.5.1.3 Standard Command Parameter Blocks Used in This
Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.5.2 General Command Syntax Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.5.2.1 Version Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.5.2.2 Access Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.5.2.3 Application Message Sequence Block . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.5.2.4 Return Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.5.2.5 General Block (Null) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.5.2.6 Command-Specific Data Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.6 STP Response Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.6.1 Basic Elements of Response Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.6.2 General Response Syntax Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.6.2.1 Header Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.6.2.2 Input Command Code Echo Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.6.2.3 Application Message Sequence Block . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.6.2.4 Status Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.6.2.5 Termination Clarifying Text Block/Version Echo Block . . .
5.2.6.2.6 Message-Specific Output Data Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.7 STP Autonomous Message Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.7.1 Basic Elements of Autonomous Message Syntax . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.7.2 Autonomous Message General Syntax Specification . . . . . . . .
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5.2.7.2.1 Report Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.7.2.2 Header Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.7.2.3 Version Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.7.2.4 Application Message Sequence Block . . . . . . . .
5.2.7.2.5 Priority-of-Action Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.7.2.6 Null Block (Reserved) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2.7.2.7 Message-Specific Output Data Blocks . . . . . . . .
5.3 Overview of Formats for Detailed Message Specifications . . . . . .
5.3.1 Specification Formats for Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.3.2 Specification Formats for Autonomous Messages . . . . . . . .
5.3.3 Additional Message Description Conventions . . . . . . . . . .
5.4 CCS OS-STP Application Layer and UPL Test Capabilities . . . . . .
5.4.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.4.2 UPL Test Command-Response Specification . . . . . . . . . . .
6. Data Collection Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.1 Data Collection Request Structure and Terminology . . . . . . . . . .
6.1.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.1.2 Request Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.1.3 Data Collection Schedules (SCHED) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.1.3.1 Standard Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.1.3.2 Additional (Non-Standard) Schedules . . . . . . . . . . .
6.1.4 Collection Periods (PERIOD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.1.4.1 Terminology and Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.1.4.2 Period-Level Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.1.5 Measured-Entity Types and Measured-Entity Identifiers . . . .
6.1.5.1 Definition - Measured Entity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.1.5.2 Measured Entity Types (ENTTYPE) . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.1.5.3 Measured-Entity Identifiers (ENTID) . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.1.6 Register Identifiers [Labels] (regstr) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.1.7 Supplier Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.2 Descriptive Overview of Data Collection Messages . . . . . . . . . .
6.2.1 CCS OS Data Collection Request Commands . . . . . . . . . . .
6.2.1.1 Scheduled-Polled Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.2.1.2 On-Demand Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.2.1.3 STP Clock Time Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.2.1.4 Requests for Measurement-Register Label Sets . . . . . .
6.2.2 STP Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.2.2.1 STP Clock-Time Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.2.2.2 Scheduled-Polled and On-Demand Response Outputs . .
6.2.2.2.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.2.2.2.2 Scheduled-Polled Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.2.2.2.3 On-Demand Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.2.2.3 Responses to Measurement-Register-Label-Set Requests .
6.2.3 Scheduled Autonomous Reports of Network Management Data
6.3 Data Collection Message Specifications and Requirements . . . . . .
6.3.1 Scheduled-Polled Data Collection Requests . . . . . . . . . . .
6.3.2 On-Demand Data Collection Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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6.3.3 Request For STP Clock Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–67
6.3.4 Scheduled-Autonomous Reports of Five-Minute Network Management
Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–69
6.3.5 Requests for Measurement Register Label Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–73
7. Recent Change and Verify (RC&V) Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–1
7.1 Description of Provisioning Data and RC&V Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–2
7.1.1 Users' View of STP Provisioning Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–2
7.1.1.1 Users' View of Provisioning Data Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–3
7.1.1.1.1 General Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–3
7.1.1.1.2 STP Entity Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–3
7.1.1.2 Users' View of Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–86
7.1.1.3 Users' View of Data Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–88
7.1.1.3.1 Recent Change Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–89
7.1.1.3.2 Verify Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–92
7.1.2 RC&V Message Descriptions and Processing Requirements . . . . . . . 7–94
7.1.2.1 Recent Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–94
7.1.2.1.1 Overview of Recent Change Command Syntax . . . . . . . . 7–95
7.1.2.1.2 RC Message Processing and Response Actions . . . . . . . . 7–96
7.1.2.2 Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–102
7.1.2.2.1 Overview of Verify Command Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–102
7.1.2.2.2 Verify Message Processing and Response Actions . . . . . 7–103
7.1.3 Application of the User View to Specific STP Features . . . . . . . . . 7–104
7.1.3.1 Cluster Routing and Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–105
7.1.3.2 Mixed Cluster and Member Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–106
7.1.3.3 Support for Supplier-Specific Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–107
7.1.3.4 TFA/TCA Broadcast Minimum Link Quantity . . . . . . . . . . . 7–109
7.1.3.5 Conversion Support for New Attributes in Existing Entities . . . 7–110
7.1.3.6 Conversion Support for SCCP Application Provisioning . . . . . 7–111
7.1.3.7 Conversion Support for the 2-Step GTT Process . . . . . . . . . . 7–111
7.1.3.8 Conversion Support for the STP Options Entity Set . . . . . . . . 7–112
7.1.3.9 Error-Message Suppression for Intentionally Vacant Codes in
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7.1.3.10 Entity Storage and Retrieval: Consolidation by Ranges . . . . . 7–113
7.1.3.11 Support for Multiple Link Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–114
7.2 Recent Change Message Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–117
7.2.1 Common Information for RC Message Specifications . . . . . . . . . . 7–127
7.2.2 Activate a Delayed Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–133
7.2.3 Delete a Delayed Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–136
7.2.4 Cancel Activation of a Delayed Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–139
7.2.5 Assign Self Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–141
7.2.6 Change Self Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–145
7.2.7 Assign Ordered Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–148
7.2.8 Delete Ordered Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–153
7.2.9 Change Ordered Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–158
7.2.10 Add A Link Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–166
7.2.11 Delete a Link Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–171
7.2.12 Change a Link Set's Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–174
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Assign a Signaling Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Disconnect Signaling Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Change Link Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Add Ordered Global Title Translation Objects . . . . . . . . . . . .
Delete Ordered Global Title Translation Objects . . . . . . . . . . .
Change Ordered Global Title Translation Objects . . . . . . . . . .
Assign Mate Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Delete Mate Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Change Mate Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Assign Subsystem Prohibited Concerned Signaling Points . . . . .
Delete Subsystem Prohibited Concerned Signaling Points . . . . .
Change Subsystem Prohibited Concerned Signaling Points . . . . .
Add Destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Delete Destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Change Destination Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Reset Destination Status for MTP Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Add an SCCP Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Delete SCCP Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Change SCCP Application Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Update STP Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Add Application Group Translations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Delete Application Group Translations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Change Application Group Translations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Add Consolidated Global Title Translation Objects . . . . . . . . .
Delete Consolidated Global Title Translation Objects . . . . . . . .
Change Consolidated Global Title Translation Objects . . . . . . .
Assign Attributes to an IP Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Change IP Interface Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Add an M2PA Virtual Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Delete M2PA Virtual Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Change M2PA Virtual Link Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Update Local IP Address (Mass Change) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Create/Update MTP2 Link Parameter Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Delete MTP2 Link Parameter Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Create/Update SAAL Link Parameter Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Delete SAAL Link Parameter Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Create/Update M2PA Link Parameter Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Delete M2PA Link Parameter Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Create/Update SCTP Parameter Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Delete SCTP Parameter Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Create/Update Link Transmit Congestion Thresholds Profile . . . .
Delete Link Transmit Congestion Thresholds Profile . . . . . . . .
Create/Update MTP2 Link Marginal Performance Threshold Profile
Delete MTP2 Link Marginal Performance Threshold Profile . . . .
Create/Update SAAL Link Marginal Performance Threshold Profile
Delete SAAL Link Marginal Performance Threshold Profile . . . . .
Create/Update M2PA Link Marginal Performance Threshold Profile
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7.2.60 Delete M2PA Link Marginal Performance Threshold Profile . . . . . 7–454
7.3 Verify Message Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–459
7.3.1 Common Information for Verify Message Specifications . . . . . . . . 7–464
7.3.2 Verify a Delayed Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–466
7.3.3 Verify Self Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–470
7.3.4 Verify Ordered Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–472
7.3.5 Verify Link Set Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–480
7.3.6 Verify Link Set Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–484
7.3.7 Verify Port Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–491
7.3.8 Verify Ordered Global Title Translation Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–496
7.3.9 Verify Mate Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–503
7.3.10 Verify Subsystem Prohibited Concerned Signaling Points . . . . . . . 7–506
7.3.11 Verify Signaling Route-Set Status and SCCP Application Status . . . 7–510
7.3.12 Verify Destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–522
7.3.13 Verify SCCP Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–530
7.3.14 Verify STP Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–535
7.3.15 Verify Application Group Translations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–542
7.3.16 Verify Consolidated Global Title Translation Objects . . . . . . . . . 7–547
7.3.17 Verify IP Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–556
7.3.18 Verify M2PA Virtual Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–564
7.3.19 Verify MTP2 Link Parameter Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–573
7.3.20 Verify SAAL Link Parameter Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–578
7.3.21 Verify M2PA Link Parameter Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–586
7.3.22 Verify SCTP Parameter Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–593
7.3.23 Verify Link Transmit Congestion Threshold Profiles . . . . . . . . . . 7–598
7.3.24 Verify MTP2 Link Marginal Performance Threshold Profiles . . . . . 7–604
7.3.25 Verify SAAL Link Marginal Performance Threshold Profiles . . . . . 7–608
7.3.26 Verify M2PA Link Marginal Performance Threshold Profiles . . . . . 7–612
8. On-Occurrence Autonomous Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–1
8.1 Memory Administration (Recent Change) On-Occurrence Messages . . . . . 8–13
8.1.1 Local Recent Change Interrupt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–13
8.1.2 Notification of Locally Initiated Database Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–16
8.2 Recent Change/Maintenance Surveillance On-Occurrence Messages . . . . . 8–19
8.2.1 Report of Inability to Perform a Global Title Translation (GTT) . . . . . 8–20
8.2.2 Report of MTP-Level Routing Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–25
8.2.3 Start of Lower Priority Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–29
8.2.4 Return to Higher Priority Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–32
8.2.5 Unexpected MTP Network Management Message Received (for Cluster
Routing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–35
8.2.6 Removal of Cluster Routing X-List Entry by Timeout . . . . . . . . . . . 8–38
8.2.7 MTP Loop Detected: Prohibited Destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–41
8.2.8 Sustained Prohibited Destination Due to MTP Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–46
8.2.9 Resumption of Traffic to MTP-Loop-Prohibited Destination . . . . . . . 8–49
8.2.10 Receipt of Unrecognized SCCP Message Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–53
8.2.11 SCCP Hop Counter Violation (Suspected SCCP Loop) . . . . . . . . . . 8–58
8.2.12 Report of SCCP Loop Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–64
8.2.13 Report of SCCP Routing Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–71
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8.2.14 Report of SCCP Routing Failure - Transient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3 Network Management/Maintenance Surveillance On-Occurrence Messages
8.3.1 Highly Critical Event Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3.1.1 Processor Outage Signals Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3.1.2 Report of Link Set Outage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3.1.3 All Routes Unavailable to an SS7 Destination Address . . . . . .
8.3.2 Recovery from Highly Critical Event Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3.2.1 Termination of Receipt of PRO Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3.2.2 Recovery from Link Set Outage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3.2.3 Recovery from All Routes Unavailable to an SS7 Destination
Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3.3 MTP Restart Event Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3.3.1 Commencement of MTP Restart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3.3.2 Progress (Status) of MTP Restart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3.3.3 Completion of MTP Restart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3.4 STP Processor Overload Event Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3.4.1 Message Handling Processor Overload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3.4.2 Message Handling Processor Overload Change . . . . . . . . . .
8.3.4.3 Isolated Message-Handling Processor Capacity Reduction . . . .
8.3.4.4 Recovery from Isolated Message-Handling Processor Capacity
Reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3.4.5 Network Management Task Priority Discard Threshold Reached
8.3.4.6 Recovery from Network Management Task Priority Discard
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8.3.5 Route-Set Congestion Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3.5.1 Report of Route-Set Congestion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.3.5.2 Recovery from Route-Set Congestion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.4 Maintenance Surveillance On-Occurrence Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.4.1 Reports of Link Congestion Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.4.1.1 Report of Link Congestion Level Increase . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.4.1.2 Report of Recovery from Link Congestion . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.4.1.3 Link Transmit Buffer Overflow Commencement . . . . . . . . .
8.4.1.4 End of Link Transmit Buffer Overflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.4.2 Reports of Link Management Inhibit/Uninhibit Actions . . . . . . . . .
8.4.2.1 Report of Near-End Link Management Inhibit . . . . . . . . . . .
8.4.2.2 Report of Near-End Link Management Uninhibit . . . . . . . . .
8.4.3 Link Failures and Recoveries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.4.3.1 Report of Link Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.4.3.2 Report of Recovery from Link Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.4.4 Manually Caused Link Unavailability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.4.4.1 Near-End Manually Made Link Unavailable . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.4.4.2 Near-End Manually Made Link Available . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.5 STP Administrative Processor Congestion/Overload Messages . . . . . . . .
8.5.1 Report of Administrative Processor Congestion/Overload . . . . . . .
8.5.2 Recovery from Administrative Processor Congestion/Overload . . . .
8.6 Enhanced Link Event Reporting Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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8.6.2 Link Available . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–180
8.6.3 Link Failure (MTP3-Detected) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–183
8.6.4 MTP3 Link Activation/Restoration Attempt Failure . . . . . . . . . . . 8–188
8.6.5 Sustained Link Failure/Craft Referral (T19 Expiration) . . . . . . . . 8–192
8.6.6 Link Management Inhibit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–197
8.6.7 Link Management Inhibit Denied . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–200
8.6.8 Link Management Uninhibit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–203
8.6.9 Link Deactivation/Removal From Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–206
8.6.10 Link Activation Initiated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–209
8.6.11 Oversized Message Routing Attempt on an MTP2 Link . . . . . . . . 8–212
8.6.12 Link Out-of-Service at the Link Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–217
8.6.13 Link in Service at the Link Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–224
8.6.14 Link-Layer Alignment/Proving Attempt Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–228
8.6.15 Link Local Processor Outage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–234
8.6.16 End of Link Local Processor Outage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–237
8.6.17 Link Remote Processor Outage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–239
8.6.18 End of Link Remote Processor Outage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–242
8.6.19 SCTP Association Established . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–245
8.6.20 SCTP Association Terminated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–250
8.6.21 Local IP Address Inactive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–256
8.6.22 Local IP Address Active . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–260
8.7 Additional Requirements Regarding On-Occurrence Message Generation . . 8–263
9. STP Application Control Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–1
9.1 Data Collection Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–4
9.1.1 Inhibit (Disable) Measurement Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–5
9.1.2 Allow (Enable) Measurement Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–12
9.1.3 Create Data Collection Special Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–15
9.1.4 Update Data Collection Special Study Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–28
9.1.5 Delete Data Collection Special Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–37
9.1.6 Retrieve Data Collection Special Study Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–41
9.1.7 Change Thresholds for Reporting Link Errors and Faults . . . . . . . . . 9–47
9.2 Network Management Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–52
9.2.1 Change Thresholds for Link Congestion Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–53
9.2.2 Change SS7 Timer Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–58
9.3 Data Base Copy Control Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–63
9.4 Summary Tables of Relevant SS7 Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–67
10. Transparent Mode (Flow-Through) Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–1
10.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–1
10.1.1 Functional Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–1
10.1.2 Use of the Flow-Through Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–1
10.2 Flow-Through Commands and Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–2
10.2.1 Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–2
10.2.1.1 Flow-Through Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–2
10.2.1.2 Flow-Through Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–3
10.2.2 Flow-Through Command-Response Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–5
10.3 Flow-Through Autonomous Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–7
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10.3.1 Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–7
10.3.2 Flow-Through Autonomous Report Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–8
11. Performance and Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–1
11.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–1
11.2 Availability and Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–1
11.3 System Response Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–2
11.3.1 Response Time Definitions, Assumptions, and General Requirements . 11–2
11.3.2 STP Response Times to CCS OS Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–3
11.3.2.1 Message Categories for Response Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–3
11.3.2.2 Administration and Engineering Data Collection Requests . . . . 11–4
11.3.2.3 Network Management Data Collection Requests . . . . . . . . . . 11–5
11.3.2.4 Maintenance Surveillance Data Collection Requests . . . . . . . . 11–5
11.3.2.5 Status Data Collection Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–6
11.3.2.6 Recent Change and Verification (RC&V) Requests . . . . . . . . . 11–6
11.3.2.7 Application Control Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–7
11.3.2.8 STP Clock Time Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–7
11.3.2.9 Flow-Through Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–7
11.3.3 Response Times For Autonomous Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–8
11.3.3.1 Scheduled-Autonomous Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–8
11.3.3.2 On-Occurrence Autonomous Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–8
11.4 Data Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–8
11.4.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–8
11.4.2 Definitions, Assumptions, and Other Considerations . . . . . . . . . . 11–9
11.4.2.1 Peak Hour Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–9
11.4.2.2 Factors Affecting Data Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–9
11.4.2.3 STP Configuration Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–10
11.4.2.3.1 ’Typically Configured’ STPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–10
11.4.2.3.2 Supplier-Specific STP Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–11
11.4.2.4 User-Initiated Message Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–11
11.4.2.5 On-Occurrence Message Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–11
11.4.2.6 Scheduled Message Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–11
11.4.2.7 Other Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–12
11.4.3 Expected Peak-Hour Message Traffic Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–13
11.4.3.1 Commands and Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–16
11.4.3.2 Autonomous Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–17
11.4.3.3 Summary of Expected Peak-Hour Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–18
11.5 Storage Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–19
12. Message Priority and Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–1
12.1 Logical Channel Assignment Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–1
12.1.1 Minimum Number and Reservation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–1
12.1.2 Logical Channel/Physical Link Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–2
12.1.3 Planning Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–2
12.2 Message Priority Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–3
12.2.1 Destination Priority for Responses and Autonomous Messages . . . . 12–3
12.2.2 Priority Processing at the STP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–3
12.3 Message Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–4
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12.3.1 Destination Routing at the STP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–4
12.3.2 Destination Routing in the CCS OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–4
12.3.3 Routing Code Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–5
12.3.3.1 CCS OS Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–5
12.3.3.2 STP Autonomous Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–5
13. Routing Verification Test Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–1
13.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–1
13.1.1 MTP Routing Verification Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–1
13.1.2 SCCP Routing Verification Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–3
13.1.3 MRVT Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–3
13.1.4 SRVT Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–4
13.1.5 Overview Of The Commands And Autonomous Messages . . . . . . . . 13–4
13.2 MRVT Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–7
13.2.1 Initiate MRVT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–9
13.2.2 MRVT Results Autonomous Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–12
13.2.3 Retrieve the Value of Parameter Dmrvt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–19
13.2.4 Change the Value of Parameter Dmrvt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–21
13.2.5 Retrieve the Value of Parameter Nmrvt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–23
13.2.6 Change the Value of Parameter Nmrvt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–25
13.2.7 Inhibit (Disable) Internetwork MTP Routing Verification Test . . . . 13–27
13.2.8 Allow (Enable) Internetwork MTP Routing Verification Test . . . . . 13–29
13.2.9 Retrieve the Value of Parameter MRVTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–31
13.3 SRVT Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–33
13.3.1 Initiate SRVT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–34
13.3.2 SRVT Results Autonomous Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–38
13.3.3 Retrieve the Value of Parameter Dsrvt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–46
13.3.4 Change the Value of Parameter Dsrvt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–48
13.3.5 Retrieve the Value of Parameter Nsrvt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–50
13.3.6 Change the Value of Parameter Nsrvt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–52
13.3.7 Inhibit (Disable) Internetwork SCCP Routing Verification Test . . . . 13–54
13.3.8 Allow (Enable) Internetwork SCCP Routing Verification Test . . . . 13–56
13.3.9 Retrieve the Value of Parameter SRVTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–58
14. Interface Implementation Status and Priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–1
14.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–1
14.1.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–1
14.1.2 Organization of Mapped Message Subsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–2
14.2 Network Data Collection Functions and Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–3
14.2.1 Messages Supported by the Telcordia Network Performance Monitor . 14–3
14.2.1.1 Supported Interface Test Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–3
14.2.1.2 Supported Data Collection Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–3
14.2.1.3 Supported Application-Control Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–4
14.2.2 Measurement Collection Supported by Other CCS OSs . . . . . . . . . 14–4
14.2.3 Deferred Data Collection Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–4
14.3 RC&V Messages: Telcordia Signaling Network Activation Manager . . . . . 14–5
14.3.1 Currently Supported RC&V Message Subset (as of Release 4.7) . . . . 14–6
14.3.1.1 Supported Interface Test Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–7
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14.3.1.2 Supported Recent Change Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–7
14.3.1.3 Supported Verify Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–8
14.3.1.4 Supported CM On-Occurrence Autonomous Messages . . . . . . 14–9
14.3.1.5 Supported Transparent Mode (Flow-Through) Messages . . . . . 14–9
14.3.2 High-Priority Candidate RC&V Message Subset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–9
14.3.3 Moderate-Priority Candidate RC&V Message Subset . . . . . . . . . . 14–11
14.3.4 Lower-Priority Candidate RC&V Message Subset . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–12
14.3.5 Deferred and Superseded CM Message Subset . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–15
14.4 Surveillance Messages (for NTM and Network Maintenance OSs) . . . . . 14–17
14.4.1 Previously Supported Notifications and Other Messages . . . . . . . 14–17
14.4.2 High-Priority Candidate Surveillance Message Subset . . . . . . . . . 14–18
14.4.3 Lower-Priority Candidate Surveillance Message Subset . . . . . . . . 14–20
14.4.4 Deferred Control Message Subset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–22
Appendix A: Data Collection Request Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–1
A.1 Data Collection Request Structure Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–1
A.2 Standard Data Collection Schedules (SCHED) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–2
A.3 Collection Period Request Parameter Values (PERIOD) . . . . . . . . . . . . A–3
A.4 Standard Measured-Entity Types (ENTTYPEs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–4
A.5 Conventions for Measured-Entity Identifiers (ENTIDs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–5
A.6 Conventions and Requirements for Supplier-Specific Request-Level
Mnemonics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–8
A.6.1 Supplier-Specific Collection Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–8
A.6.2 Supplier-Specific Collection Periods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–8
A.6.3 Supplier-Specific Measured-Entity Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–8
A.6.4 Supplier-Specific Measured-Entity Identifiers for Non-Standard
Entity Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–9
A.6.5 Supplier-Specific Register Mnemonics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–9
A.6.6 Use of Non-Standard Request-Level Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–9
A.6.6.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–9
A.6.6.2 Restrictions and Clarifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–9
A.7 Documentation Requirements for Supplier-Specific Attributes of the Data
Collection Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–11
Appendix B: Standard Data Collection Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–1
B.1 STP System Totals (P_SYSTOT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–10
B.2 Component Measurements (P_COMP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–15
B.3 Service Measurements (P_SERV) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–37
B.4 Special Study Measurements (P_SPST) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–41
B.5 In-Service Record Base Measurements (P_RBASE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–45
B.6 Daily Maintenance Measurements (P_MTCD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–62
B.7 Network Management On-Demand Measurements (D_NM) . . . . . . . . . B–83
B.8 Day-to-Hour Maintenance Measurements (D_MTCDTH) . . . . . . . . . . . B–84
B.9 Hourly Maintenance Measurements (D_MTCH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–85
B.10 Maintenance Status Indicators (D_MTCS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–95
B.11 Network Management Measurements (Autonomous) (A_NM) . . . . . . B–100
B.12 Withdrawn Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–110
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Appendix C: Prior Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–1
C.1 Appendix Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–1
C.2 Issue 2 Revisions (December 2002) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–1
C.2.1 Issue 2: Superseded Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–1
C.2.2 Issue 2: Reasons for Reissue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–1
C.2.3 Issue 2: Highlights of Revisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–2
C.2.3.1 Incorporation of GR-310-CORE, Issue 1, Revision 1 . . . . . . . . C–2
C.2.3.2 Enhancements, Corrections, Clarifications, and Other Revisions . C–3
C.2.3.3 Miscellaneous/Editorial Revisions and Format Changes . . . . . . C–5
C.2.4 Issue 2: Detailed Revisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–5
C.2.4.1 Section 2 Revisions: Background: STP and CCS OS Functions
and Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–6
C.2.4.2 Section 3 Revisions: Functional Overview of the Application-Level
Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–6
C.2.4.3 Section 4 Revisions: Message Headers and UPL/Lower-Layer
Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–6
C.2.4.4 Section 5 Revisions: UPL Interactions and Message Syntax
Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–9
C.2.4.5 Section 6 Revisions: Data Collection Messages . . . . . . . . . . C–10
C.2.4.6 Section 7 Revisions: Recent Change and Verify (RC&V)
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–11
C.2.4.7 Section 8 Revisions: On-Occurrence Autonomous Messages . . C–43
C.2.4.8 Section 9 Revisions: STP Application Control Commands . . . . C–54
C.2.4.9 Section 10 Revisions: Transparent Mode (Flow-Through)
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–55
C.2.4.10 Section 11 Revisions: Performance and Capacity . . . . . . . . C–55
C.2.4.11 Section 12 Revisions: Message Priority and Routing . . . . . . . C–56
C.2.4.12 Section 13 Revisions: Routing Verification Test Messages . . . C–56
C.2.4.13 Section 14 Revisions: Implementation Status and Priorities . . C–56
C.2.4.14 Appendix A Revisions: Data Collection Request Structure . . . C–56
C.2.4.15 Appendix B Revisions: Standard Data Collection Schedules . . C–57
Appendix D: References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–1
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Figure 1-1
Figure 4-1
Figure 4-2
Figure 4-3
Figure 4-4
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CCS OS-STP Interface Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CCS OS-STP Data Communications Architecture Options . . . .
CCS OS-STP Interface TA-298 Protocol Stack (UAL/X.25 Option)
UAL Message Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
UAL Message Header Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Comparison of OSI, TA-298, and SR-5129 Protocol Stacks . . . .
SR-5129 Application Layer Message Structure . . . . . . . . . . .
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ASCII Character Subset for UPL Messages . . . . . . . . . .
Error-Message Suppression for Intentionally Vacant Codes
Summary of CCS OS - STP Recent Change Commands . . .
Supported Parameter Argument Combinations for the
DLT-CGTT Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CHG-CGTT Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Allowable Input Parameter Combinations for the
DLT-M2PAVLK Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Summary of CCS OS - STP Verify Commands . . . . . . . .
VFY-CGTT Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Allowable Input Combinations for the
VFY-M2PAVLK Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Summary of STP-CCS OS On-Occurrence Autonomous
Messages and Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Summary of CCS OS - STP Application Control Commands
SS7 Protocol Timer Identities and Provisional Values . . .
SS7 Network Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SS7 Service Indicator (SI) Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
STP Response Times for CCS OS Command Categories
with Expected Peak-Hour Message Traffic Volumes . . . .
STP Response Times for Autonomous Messages with
Expected Peak-Hour Message Traffic Volumes . . . . . . .
Summary of Expected Peak-Hour Message Traffic Volumes
for the CCS OS-STP Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CCS OS-to-STP Message Priority Structure (Commands) . .
STP-to-CCS OS Message Priority Structure
(STP Responses and Autonomous Messages) . . . . . . . .
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