Cisco Cisco Packet Data Gateway (PDG)
AAA Changes in Release 17
▀ AAA Enhancements for 17.0
▄ Release Change Reference, StarOS Release 17
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Previous Behavior: The gateway node used to convey access network information (e.g. user location and/or user time
zone information) to PCRF through ECS-IMSA only during session establishment or whenever any of these information
are modified/updated.
zone information) to PCRF through ECS-IMSA only during session establishment or whenever any of these information
are modified/updated.
New Behavior: As part of this feature, Application Function (AF) can request the PCRF to report the access network
information, and if requested the gateway node has to provide this access network information to PCRF even though it
has not changed.
information, and if requested the gateway node has to provide this access network information to PCRF even though it
has not changed.
The gateway node provides the required access network information to the PCRF within the 3GPP-User-Location-Info
AVP, User-Location-Info-Time AVP (if available), and/or 3GPP-MS-TimeZone AVP. The gateway also provides the
ACCESS_NETWORK_INFO_REPORT event trigger within Event-Trigger AVP.
AVP, User-Location-Info-Time AVP (if available), and/or 3GPP-MS-TimeZone AVP. The gateway also provides the
ACCESS_NETWORK_INFO_REPORT event trigger within Event-Trigger AVP.
PCRF will use event trigger “ACCESS_NETWORK_INFO_REPORT(45)” to request this information from the
gateway along with “Required-Access-Info” AVP.
gateway along with “Required-Access-Info” AVP.
Command Changes
diameter encode-supported-features
netloc
is a new keyword in this command to enable the NetLoc feature. When this feature is enabled, the gateway
node sends the netloc feature bit to PCRF on demand via CCR-I message.
configure
context context_name
ims-auth-service service_name
policy control
diameter encode-supported-features netloc
{ default | no } diameter encode-supported-features
end
Notes:
netloc
keyword is visible only when the corresponding feature license is installed.
Performance Indicator Changes
IMSA Schema
The following bulkstat variable is newly added in this schema.
dpca-imsa-access-nw-info-report
show ims-authorization service name
As part of the NPLI feature enhancement, the following are the changes to the fields in the output of this show
command.
command.
net-loc – Displayed as part of the “Supported Features” field if configured
Access-Network-Info-Report – Displayed for “Reauth Trigger” field if the corresponding trigger is configured