This chapter explains how to start and stop the SS7 process on Signaling Servers.
The SS7 process is a native SS7 stack wrapper, required in every solution in which Oracle Communications Service Controller communicates with entities in the SS7 network. The SS7 SSU sends and receives SS7 traffic through the SS7 process.
The SS7 process needs to run on each of the servers where the SS7 SSU is deployed. In a clustered split domain (that is, when deploying separate Signaling and Processing domains), you run the SS7 process on each of the Signaling Servers in the Signaling domain. In a basic single domain deployment, you run the SS7 process on each of the servers in the domain.
There are two types of SS7 network: SIGTRAN and TDM. Service Controller supports only SIGTRAN SS7 networks.For the SIGTRAN network, there is a process binary for Linux.
The binaries of the SS7 process are located in the following directory:
Oracle_home/ocsb62/managed_server/ss7stack
To start the SS7 process for SIGTRAN networks:
Linux: convergin.ss7stack.sigtran.linux port_number
port_number is the port that the SS7 process use to listen to messages from the SS7 SSU.