Cisco Service Control Components - Cisco SCE 8000 Installation Manual

Published: September 23, 2015
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Overview of the Cisco Service Control Solution
This section introduces the components of the Cisco Service Control solution and gives a high-level explanation of the entire
installation process.

Cisco Service Control Components

The Cisco Service Control solution consists of five main components:
• Cisco Service Control Engine (SCE) platform—A flexible, powerful, and dedicated network-usage monitor that is
custom-built to analyze and report on network transactions at the application level.
For complete information about the installation and initial configuration of the Cisco SCE platform, see the Cisco SCE
Platform Installation Guides and Configuration Guides.
• Cisco Service Control Application for Broadband (SCA BB)—An application that creates a service configuration file
containing settings for traffic classification, accounting, and reporting, and applies it to a Cisco SCE platform. Cisco SCA
BB provides tools to automate the distribution of these configuration files to Cisco SCE platforms. This simple,
standards-based approach makes it easy to manage multiple devices in a large network.
For complete information about the installation and operation of Cisco SCA BB, see the Cisco Service Control Application
for Broadband (SCA BB) User Guide.
• Service Control Management Suite (SCMS) Subscriber Manager—A middleware software component used when dynamic
binding of subscriber information and policies is required. The Subscriber Manager manages subscriber information and
provisions it in real time to multiple Cisco SCE platforms. The Subscriber Manager stores subscriber policy information
internally, and acts as a stateful bridge between the authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) system (such as
RADIUS and DHCP) and the Cisco SCE platforms.
For more information about the installation and operation of the Subscriber Manager, see the Cisco Service Control
Management Suite Subscriber Manager User Guide.
Quota Manager is an optional component of the Subscriber Manager. It enables Cisco Control solution providers to manage
subscriber quota across subscriber sessions with a high degree of flexibility.
For more information about the installation and operation of the Quota Manager, see the Cisco Service Control
Management Suite Quota Manager User Guide.
Virtual Link Manager (VLM) is a component of the Subscriber Manager that enables Cisco Service Control solution
providers to monitor and control individual subscriber links separately. For this, VLM creates a single policy with
tier-differentiated packages, as also a number of virtual links, and then assigns subscribers to these virtual links. For more
information, see the Cisco Service Control for Managing Remote Cable MSO Links Solution Guide.
• SCMS Collection Manager—Implementation of a collection system that receives Raw Data Records (RDRs) from one or
more Cisco SCE platforms. The Collection Manager collects usage information and statistics, and stores them in a database.
The Collection Manager also converts subscriber usage information and statistics into simple text-based files for further
processing and collection by external systems.
For more information about the installation and operation of the Collection Manager, see the Cisco Service Control
Management Suite Collection Manager User Guide.
• Insight Reporter—Cisco Insight Reporter is a software platform based on web 2.0 user experience standards, designed to
collect and present reports, charts, and statistics about the traffic data collected by Cisco SCE devices. For more
information, see the Cisco Insight Reporter User Guide.
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