This feature uses an MSISDN to fetch the IMSI from the HLR via a SendRoutingInfoForSMRequest

Feature cheat sheet

Feature Name Network Operator Data Used in PlanId(s) Stateful or Stateless POJO Feature or SBB Feature

IPSMGWFetchIMSI

No

SMMA, Sh_PNR, MTFSM_PS_CS, register

Stateless

POJO

Feature parameters

The Fetch IMSI feature supports the following parameters that may be passed in a feature execution script run statement:

Name Allowed Values Description

mode

fetch and response

This is used to determine what action the feature should take when run.

Session Input variables

The feature reads the following fields in Session State

Session State variable name Variable type Comments 
MSISDN

String

The MSISDN to use in the SendRoutingInfoForSM operation

Session Output variables

The feature sets the following fields in Session State

Session State variable name Variable type Comments 
IMSI

String

The IMSI retrieved from the SendRoutingInfoForSM response

 
SRI4SMResult

enum

Indicates if the SendRoutingInfoForSM request has succeeded. Allowed values are NOT_ATTEMPTED, SUCCESS, and FAILED

 
SRI4SMError

TcapError

The TcapError received in response to the SendRoutingInfoForSMRequest

Statistics

IPSMGWFetchIMSI statistics are tracked by the sentinel.ipsmgw SBB and can be found under the following parameter set in REM:
SLEE-Usage → sentinel.ipsmgw service → sentinel.ipsmgw SBB → feature → IPSMGWFetchIMSI
or with rhino-stats:
"SLEE-Usage.Services.ServiceID[name=sentinel.ipsmgw,vendor=OpenCloud,version=4.1].SbbID[name=sentinel.ipsmgw,vendor=OpenCloud,version=4.1].feature.IPSMGWFetchIMSI"

Name Description 
SavedIMSI

Incremented when we successfully retrieve the IMSI from the HLR

 
SentSRIForSM

Incremented when the SRIForSM is sent to the HLR

 
FailedToSendSRIForSM

Incremented when the SRIForSM fails to be sent to the HLR

 
SuppressedSRIForSM

Incremented when the SRIForSM is suppressed

Configuration

The feature is configured with configuration scoped according to a Sentinel Selection Key. The Profile Table used to hold feature configuration is IPSMGWSharedConfigProfileTable.

The following attributes are available

Attributes Type Meaning 
HlrAddress

String

Address of the HLR to request the IMSI from, used when establishing the MAP dialog if UseMsisdnAsHlrAddress is not configured

 
UseMsisdnAsHlrAddress

Boolean

Controls whether to address the outbound HLR leg using a GT address formed from the subscriber MSISDN, instead of using the configured HlrAddress

 
SentinelOriginatingAddress

String

Address of Sentinel used when establishing the MAP dialog

 
SentinelIPSMGWAddress

String

The IP-SM-GW address that the feature will include it in MAP SendRoutingInfoForSMRequest request to send to HLR

 
SriSmDeliveryNotIntended

Boolean

If true, specify the SmDeliveryNotIntended flag when performing an SRI for SM IMSI-only query (i.e. during SMMA callflows).

 
SuppressHLRInteraction

boolean

If true, no MAP messages will be sent to the HLR. Can only be set to true when DeliveryOrder is PS_ONLY. For more information, refer to Suppression of HLR Interaction

Using MSISDN as HLR Address

The Fetch IMSI feature can optionally address the HLR leg using a GT address formed from the inbound subscriber MSISDN, as opposed to using the destination addresses configured in the IPSMGWMapProxyConfigProfileTable profile table described above.

This behaviour can be enabled or disabled by setting the UseMsisdnAsHlrAddress attribute in the Shared Configuration Profile.

MAP Application Context

The feature uses MAP Application Context shortMsgGatewayContext_v2_ac. This application context was added in GSM MAP Phase 2.

Important If SriSmDeliveryNotIntended is set to true, the feature will create a MAP v3 dialog instead of a v2 dialog. Only enable this configuration if this parameter is supported by the configured HLR.

Behaviour

When run with mode fetch the FetchIMSI feature will read the MSISDN out of session state. It is then used to send a SendRoutingInfoForSMRequest to the HLR. The request always has the SM-RP-PRI flag set to TRUE, and optionally has smDeliveryNotIntended set to "only IMSI requested" (based on the SriSmDeliveryNotIntended configuration flag).

When run with mode response the feature will look for the receipt of the SendRoutingInfoForSMResponse, it extracts the IMSI and sets it in session state. If the SendRoutingInfoForSMRequest results in an error response then it will set the SRI4SMResult and SRI4SMError session state fields instead.

If the feature is run without a mode parameter it returns a Feature Error.

The feature can be inhibited if the IPSMGW is configured to suppress HLR Interaction (see Suppression of HLR Interaction)

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