Introduction to Monitoring based

license management with CLS

for CSSC

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Monitoring based license management with CLS

• Principles
• Monitoring based license management for LTE and SRAN
• Schedule
• Demo

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Monitoring based license management with CLS

• Principles
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• Schedule
• Demo

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CLS as new component in network

• CLS introduces license management with

network view.
• One Target ID per network.
NOL Pool
S capacity
NetAct
• CLS provides central storage for: reservation LK
LK NetAct LK

• License
Pool license keys for WCDMA, LTE, SRAN
Manager
elements, License
Centralized Manager
• Floating pool license keys for Telco Cloud
License
elements.
Server
• CLS allows capacity reservation based on
requests from:
Floating pool
• SWEM – LTE/SRAN, capacity
• Core/ Telco Cloud elements, reservation

• NetAct License Manager – WCDMA/NetAct.

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Main benefits

Solution
• A Central Licensing component for Network level licensing
• Network pools and network float licenses with automation
• Network level monitoring reports
• Only one Target ID per customer
• Re-use of current licensing (NSN license generation backed,
Licensing SW assets in use, O&M interfaces)
• errors.
A Central Licensing component covering Telco Clouds
licensing:
• Protection against cloning for Network Elements as well as
OSS family products
• OEM SW protection
• One licensing concept for HW as well as Virtualized/Clouds
deployment.
Benefits
• Stop value leakage!
• Licensing can follow changes in network management as well
as customer contracts without “producing” license leakage.
• Human errors corrected without leakage.
• Simplified licensing operations
• License generation and delivery simplification – less human
• Telco Clouds licensing easy to understand
• Telco business models continued while protection in clouds
assured for NSN and OEM SW.
• Minimized impact on Network Elements.
• Licensing supports expected dynamics in cloud deployment.

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CLS on NetAct RC
One CLS within NetAct resource pool

• NetAct deployment is done in on

Customer
Net Act RC VMware (since NA16.2 release).
Net Act RC • CLS deployment is done next to NetAct
License in NetAct resource pool.
Manager • Additional 3 VMs needs to be reserved
for CLS purposes.
NetAct resource pool
Centralized
License Radio NE
Net Act RC (WCDMA BTSs /
Server RNCs)
CP License
Manager
Std. SW VNF
(IMS / FlexiNG /
OpenTAS / …)
NetAct resource pool

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Deployment
CLS VM layout

No. Service vCPU vRAM VMDK

1. CLS-DB 2 4 30
2. CLS-Backend 4 4 30
3. CLS-Frontend 2 4 30

For details please reffer to NetAct Node Architecture and Resource Plan

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• Principles
• Monitoring based license management for LTE and SRAN
• Schedule
• Demo

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Monitoring based license management for LTE and SRAN
Limiting actions performed by generating CM commands for the BTS

• New license mechanism is introduced Operator network

PM, CM
for SBTS and eNodeB. NOL NetAct
data

• The new approach is re-using the S RTU

request SWEM
existing monitoring solution: Pool LKs
• SWEM is a component of existing download
LK P C
M M SBTS / eNodeB
SWAM,
• SWEM and SWAM uses the same
calculation methods for checking license
Centralized NetAct
usage. License
Server SWEM
• On top of monitoring done by SWAM P C
there is: M M SBTS / eNodeB
RTU
• SWEM checking for license capacity by Limiting
grant /
inter-working with CLS, actions
deny
towards
• SWEM “limitation actions”, which are BTS
Configuration Management (CM)
SWEM = SW Entitlement Manager
Commands to SBTS and eNodeB.

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Monitoring based license management for LTE and SRAN
SWEM inter-working with CLS

• SWEM monitors NetAct database:

• PM: counter values (including post-processing e.g. averaging counter usage over 14 days),
• CM: configuration of ASW / HVF / HWA features.
• SWEM executes continuously RTU verification by checking with CLS if license capacity available
• CLS reply to SWEM based on available ‘feature pool’ capacity:
• Grants RTU updates relevant ‘pool’ status,
• Denies RTU.
• SWEM actions on CLS reply
• If OK  Max value is increased,
• If denial:
 license missing alarms generated,
 initiates CM command (limitation action) SBTS and eNodeB – SRAN 16 A / LTE 16A.

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Monitoring based license management for LTE and SRAN
Limiting actions performed by generating CM commands for the BTS

• Every feature is protected, but just a small subset of features gets a dedicated limitation action.
• Features which have defined dedicated limitation actions are:
- Data Users
- Daily UP Data Volume
- Quarterly UP Data Volume
- Busy Hour UP throughput
- Configured Rel.99 CE capacity
- Configured FSMR4 BB capacity
• For all other ASW / HVF / HWA features (on/off or with capacity) a “general limitation” is applied if not enough license capacity
is available.
- This general limitation action is handled by the CLS by freezing capacity of all existing capacity features (e.g. Data Users, Daily / Quarterly UP Data
Volume, Busy Hour UP throughput, Configured Rel.99 CE capacity).
- If in the situation of “general limitation” the NE would ask for additional capacity of any capacity feature, CLS will always respond that capacity
limitation is existing, even capacity licenses would be available and SWEM is generating a CM command to limit the capacity of the related capacity
feature (e.g. to limit # users to a value as provided in the CM command).

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• Principles
• Monitoring based license management for LTE and SRAN
• Schedule
• Demo

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Schedule

CLS 16.2:
- Monitoring based SW assets protection for LTE, SRAN – alarms only.

CLS 16.5:
- CLS support for Telco Cloud: IMS (pilot),

CLS 16.8:
- Monitoring based SW assets protection for LTE, SRAN – limitation action.

CLS 17:
- CLS support for Telco Cloud: IMS…

CLS 18:
- CLS support for WCDMA (BTS),
- CLS support for NetAct capacity.

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• Principles
• Monitoring based license management for LTE and SRAN
• Schedule
• Demo

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