The SBC Core provides a preconditions support feature to reserve network resources as a preventative measure to minimize chances of session failure due to lack of resources before alerting the called party. This prevents a "ghost ring" where the called party is alerted before the call is set up.
The SBC Core supports preconditions interworking functionality only when one leg of a call supports preconditions and other does not. The SBC supports preconditions functionality on either of the legs (egress or ingress). With this feature, preconditions interworking is decided based on the precondition profile configuration, present in the Common IP Attributes of the IP Signaling Profile (IPSP).
This feature supports ISUP-SIP and SIP-SIP preconditions interworking, and provides transparency by dropping/adding of preconditions attributes between supporting or non-supporting peers. The preconditions are configured from the SBC at the SIP Trunk Group level using the parameters “preconditions” (for incoming requests) and “transmitPreconditions” (for outgoing requests).
The SBC Core completes the ingress preconditions when the call terminates at the PSX script. Users can configure the list of script names (in the psxScriptProfile
) for which the SBC performs ingress preconditions interworking. The ingress preconditions trigger when one of the configured script names matches with the PSX returned script name. The script execution continues after the ingress preconditions are met.
The pemInterworking
flag inhibits sending the P-Early Media header in the first 18x response for the ingress preconditions interworking scenario.
For in-depth details of
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preconditions interworking and preconditions profile flags interactions, refer to
Reserving Network Resources.
Command Syntax
% set profiles signaling ipSignalingProfile <profile name> commonIpAttributes preconditions
State <disable | enable>
StrengthMandatoryPolicy <disable | enable>
StrengthMandatoryPriority <1-100>
StrengthOptionalPolicy <disable | enable>
StrengthOptionalPriority <1-100>
SupportIfEgressIPTG <disable | enable>
UPDATEPreconditionsPolicy <disable | enable>
UPDATEPreconditionsPriority <1-100>
Command Parameters
Preconditions Profile Parameters
Parameter | Range | Description |
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State | N/A | Enable this flag to activate the Preconditions Profile configuration. NOTE: The remaining Preconditions Profile configuration options (listed below) are available once this preconditions State flag is enabled. |
StrengthMandatoryPolicy
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StrengthMandatoryPriority | 1-100 | (Default = 1) Enter a value to specify the priority assigned to a call leg. This fields helps in resolving conflicts with selecting the policy. If the StrengthMandatoryPriority flag is enabled on one call leg, but disabled on the other call leg, the Unable to show "metadata-from": No such page "_space_variables" considers the priority assigned to the policy on each call leg to select the policy and selects the policy with the higher priority.When the two call legs have the same priority, the Unable to show "metadata-from": No such page "_space_variables" selects the policy on the ingress leg.NOTE: Priority is inversely proportional to the value of digit. Lower the digit value, higher the priority. For example, priority 1 takes precedence over priority 2. |
StrengthOptionalPolicy | N/A | Enable this flag to determine whether precondition inter-working is required on the ingress leg. NOTE: The precondition strength is optional in the precondition attribute and the SupportIfEgressIPTG flag is disabled. |
StrengthOptionalPriority | 1-100 | (Default = 1) Enter a value to specify the priority assigned to a call leg. This parameter helps in resolving conflicts with selecting the policy. If the StrengthOptionalPolicy flag is enabled on one call leg but disabled on the other call leg, the Unable to show "metadata-from": No such page "_space_variables" accounts the priority assigned to policy on each call leg to select the policy. The Unable to show "metadata-from": No such page "_space_variables" selects the policy which has higher priority.When the two call legs have the same priority, the Unable to show "metadata-from": No such page "_space_variables" selects the policy on ingress leg.NOTE: The priority is inversely proportional to the value of digit. The lower the digit value, the higher the priority. For example, priority 1 takes precedence over priority 2. |
SupportIfEgressIPTG | N/A
| Enable this flag during session offer processing to have the Unable to show "metadata-from": No such page "_space_variables" assume preconditions support for entities on the egress trunk group.NOTE: The SBC does not associate semantics with this field from the ingress IPTG perspective. |
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UPDATEPreconditionsPriority
| 1-100
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