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Managing the SCMP
Revised: June 15, 2009, OL-7827-12
Introduction
This chapter provides an overview of the Service Control Management Protocol (SCMP) capabilities. It
also explains the various procedures for configuring and monitoring SCMP.
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About SCMP
The Service Control Management Protocol (SCMP) is a protocol that integrates the SCE platform and
the ISG (Intelligent Service Gateway) functionality of the Cisco routers, thereby providing a mechanism
that allows the ISG and the SCE platform to manage subscriber sessions together without requiring
coordination and orchestration by additional components.
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The SCMP is a Cisco proprietary protocol that uses the RADIUS protocol with CoA (Change of
Authorization) support as a transport layer. The SCMP provides connection management messages,
subscriber management and subscriber accounting messages. Each subscriber in the SCE platform
represents a session in the SCMP peer (as defined by the ISG terminology).
Connection management
The SCE platform initiates the connection to the peer device. On SCMP connection establishment, the
SCE platform and ISG negotiate the following details:
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About SCMP, page 14-1
Configuring the SCMP, page 14-8
Monitoring the SCMP Environment, page 14-16
SCMP Terminology, page 14-2
Deployment Scenarios, page 14-3
SCMP Peer Devices, page 14-7
SCMP Subscriber Management, page 14-8
Introduction mode – whether the SCMP peer must send a session-provisioning message on session
creation.
Keep-alive message interval
Protocol version
C H A P T E R
Cisco SCE 2000 and SCE 1000 Software Configuration Guide
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