Cisco ASR 5000 Administration Manual page 412

Session Subsystem
Task
acsctrl
acsmgr
alcapmgr
cdrmod
dgmbmgr
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Description Function
Active Charging System Active Charging service is defined at the global level and
(ACS) Controller can be utilized through CSS commands from any VPN
context. Enable via the Global Configuration mode
active-charging service CLI command.
The ACS controller runs on the primary packet processing
card and is responsible for managing the ACS service.
Reads and writes ACS configuration information into SCT.
The ACS Controller monitors the ACS Manager's recovery
process and performs cleanup when redundancy is enabled.
Active Charging System Created by ACS Controller to perform IP session processing
(ACS) Controller for a specific number of flows.
Sends and receives data through Session Managers.
Active/Standby acsmgr tasks are created when session
recovery (SR) is enabled.
Access Link Control Starts when an ALCAP service configuration is detected.
Application Part There can be multiple instances of this task for load sharing.
Manager
Runs the ALCAP protocol stack and handles the
[ASR 5000 only]
IuCS-over-ATM associations.
Maintains AAL2 node entity databases.
Provides nodal functions for IuCS-over-ATM interface on
ALCAP protocol.
Charging Detail Record Responsible for receiving EDR/UDR records from different
Module ACSMGR instances in the system.
Responsible for writing the received EDR/UDR records in
files using the configured file naming conventions.
Diameter Gmb interface Provides Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS)
Application Manager feature support for GGSN. It is instantiated when an MBMS
policy CLI is configured in the GGSN Service configuration
mode. dgmbmgr
Maintains the MBMS UE and bearer contexts.
Handles the Gmb interface over a Diameter connection to a
BMSC Server for MBMS bearer sessions. dgmbmgr recovers
by polling all sessmgrs for MBMS session states and
recreating the MBMS UE and MBMS bearer context
information.
StarOS Tasks