Configuring JDBC provisioning lookup types and connections

Below are instructions for configuring JDBC provisioning lookup types and the connection to the TimesTen database.

Configuring JDBC provisioning lookup types

Sentinel comes with three JDBC-based provisioning service implementations: for subscriber data, promotion buckets, and home zones.

Subscriber data

To use the JDBC-based provisioning service implementation for subscriber data, in the provisioning GUI:

1

Select Sentinel ⇒ Feature Configuration from the menu.

2

Select Subscriber Data Lookup from the Feature dropdown.

3

Click the Lookup Config tab.

4

Set the Sentinel selection key scope (Network, Session Type, and so on) to correspond to the subscriber data records stored in TimesTen.

  • If all subscriber data records are in TimesTen, then select (none) for all the scope options.

  • If no configuration exists at this level, click Add New.

5

Change the Lookup type option to dbQuery, and click Save.

Promotion buckets

To use the JDBC-based provisioning service implementation as the default option for promotion buckets, in the provisioning GUI:

1

Select Sentinel ⇒ Promotion Configuration from the menu.

2

Click the Config tab.

3

Set the Sentinel selection key scope (Network, Session Type, and so on) to correspond to the promotion bucket data stored in TimesTen.

  • If all promotion bucket data is in TimesTen, then select (none) for all the scope options.

  • If no configuration exists at this level, click Add New.

4

Change the Default data source option to dbquery, and click Save.

To use the JDBC-based provisioning service implementation only for specific promotion buckets, in the provisioning GUI:

1

Select Sentinel ⇒ Promotion Configuration from the menu.

2

Click the Bucket Config tab.

3

Set the Sentinel selection key scope (Network, Session Type, and so on) to correspond to the scope the promotion bucket configuration data is stored at.

4

Select one of the existing bucket configurations from the list, or click Add New to create a new one.

5

Change the Data source option to dbquery, and click Save.

Home zones

To use the JDBC-based provisioning service implementation for home zones, in the provisioning GUI:

1

Select Sentinel ⇒ Feature Configuration from the menu.

2

Select Home Zone from the Feature dropdown.

3

Click the Config tab.

4

Set the Sentinel selection key scope (Network, Session Type, and so on) to correspond to the home zone zones stored in TimesTen.

  • If all home zone zones are in TimesTen, then select (none) for all the scope options.

  • If no configuration exists at this level, click Add New.

5

Change the Zone lookup type option to dbQuery, and click Save.

Configuring TimesTen JDBC connection (using Tomcat server)

If using any JDBC-based provisioning service implementations, you’ll need to configure JNDI entries in your servlet container:

1

Install the TimesTen native client on the machine where from REM will be run.

2

Copy ttjdbc6.jar from <timesten_instance_home>/lib/ to ${CATALINA_HOME}/lib/.

3

Edit (or create) ${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/setenv.sh and add some custom environment settings:

# Specify the path to the lib directory of the local TimesTen client install
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/TimesTen/tt1121/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

# (Solaris 64bit only)
# If running on Solaris 64bit, specify the -d64 flag to run Tomcat using the 64bit JVM
# Otherwise, Tomcat won't be able to load the 64bit TimesTen libraries
#CATALINA_OPTS="-d64"

4

Edit ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/server.xml, and add a data source definition in the GlobalNamingResources section (replacing username, password, and the connection URL with whatever applies for your TimesTen setup):

<!-- ... -->
  <GlobalNamingResources>
    <!-- ... -->
    <Resource name="SentinelDataSource" auth="Container"
              type="javax.sql.DataSource" driverClassName="com.timesten.jdbc.TimesTenDriver"
              url="jdbc:timesten:client:sentinelCS"
              username="username" password="password" maxActive="50" maxIdle="30"
              maxWait="-1"/>
  </GlobalNamingResources>
  <!-- ... -->

5

Edit (or create) ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/Catalina/localhost/rem.xml, and add resource links for whichever services you need to connect to TimesTen:

<Context>
  <!-- For provisioning Subscriber Data records in TimesTen -->
  <ResourceLink name="jdbc/subscriberdata"
                global="SentinelDataSource"
                type="javax.sql.DataSource"/>

  <!-- For provisioning Promotion Buckets in TimesTen -->
  <ResourceLink name="jdbc/promotions"
                global="SentinelDataSource"
                type="javax.sql.DataSource"/>

  <!-- For provisioning HomeZone Zones in TimesTen -->
  <ResourceLink name="jdbc/homezone"
                global="SentinelDataSource"
                type="javax.sql.DataSource"/>
</Context>

6

Start/restart Tomcat.
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