The Sentinel VoLTE provisioning module is distributed as a Rhino Element Manager (REM) plugin.

It requires REM 1.5.0 or compatible. REM can be installed with Jetty or Apache Tomcat. For Sentinel VoLTE, the Apache Tomcat method is required.

To install the Sentinel VoLTE Provisioning module you will need:

Below are the procedures to:

Important
REM restart required

After installing and configuring the plugin, you will need to restart REM, for example by restarting the Tomcat webapp it is running in:

${CATALINA_BASE}/bin/catalina.sh stop
${CATALINA_BASE}/bin/catalina.sh start

Set up Tomcat

To set up Apache Tomcat for the Sentinel VoLTE Provisioning module:

1

Follow the instructions for running REM on Apache Tomcat in the REM Guide.

2

Create the rem_home/plugins directory.

cd apache-tomcat-<version>
mkdir -p rem_home/plugins

3

If running Apache Tomcat using Java 1.7, you will need to increase the PermGen size.

Add JAVA_OPTS to bin/setenv.sh.

JAVA_OPTS="-XX:PermSize=512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m"

This step should be skipped if running Apache Tomcat on Java 1.8 or higher.

Install the REM plugin

To install the REM plugin for the Sentinel VoLTE Provisioning Module:

1

Copy volte-sentinel-element-manager-<version>.em.jar into rem_home/plugins.

cd apache-tomcat-<version>
cp /full/path/to/volte-sentinel-element-manager-<version>.em.jar rem_home/plugins/

2

(Optional) Copy sis-em-<version>.em.jar into rem_home/plugins.

cd apache-tomcat-<version>
cp /full/path/to/sis-em-<version>.em.jar rem_home/plugins/

Customize plugin logging

1

Unzip log4j2.properties from rem.war:

cd apache-tomcat-<version>
mkdir rem-tmp
cd rem-tmp
unzip ../webapps/rem.war WEB-INF/classes/log4j2.properties

2

Edit WEB-INF/classes/log4j2.properties with this content:

log4j.rootLogger=INFO, FILE, CONSOLE

log4j.appender.CONSOLE=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ABSOLUTE} %-5p <%t> [%c] %m%n

log4j.appender.FILE=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
log4j.appender.FILE.File=${rem.home}/rem.log
log4j.appender.FILE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.FILE.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p <%t> [%c] %m%n

log4j.logger.rem=INFO
log4j.logger.openjpa=INFO
log4j.logger.org.apache.wink=INFO

# Uncomment for subscriberdata cache eviction logging
#log4j.logger.rem.server.sentinel.subscriberdata.cache=TRACE

log4j.logger.sentinel.audit=INFO, AUDIT
log4j.additivity.sentinel.audit=false

log4j.appender.AUDIT=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
log4j.appender.AUDIT.File=${rem.home}/sentinel-audit.log
log4j.appender.AUDIT.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.AUDIT.layout.ConversionPattern="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS}", "%c{1}", %m%n

3

Replace WEB-INF/classes/log4j2.properties in rem.war:

zip ../webapps/rem.war WEB-INF/classes/log4j2.properties

4

Remove temporary files:

cd ..
rm -rf rem-tmp

Import Rhino trust certificate

This can also be done using the REM web UI.

1

Import a Rhino Trust Certificate into REM:

"${JAVA_HOME}/bin/keytool" -importcert -file ${RHINO_HOME}/rhino-trust.cert -keystore "${TOMCAT_HOME}/rem_home/rhino-ems.ks" -storepass changeit -noprompt

Security considerations

Below are recommendations for securely running the Sentinel VoLTE Provisioning Module.

Use https

Be aware that the Sentinel VoLTE machine API uses HTTP BASIC authentication. This passes the username and password with every request.

To prevent your credentials going over the network unencrypted, run REM over https.

Set up SSL

See the Tomcat 7 - SSL How-To docs for help setting up SSL in Apache Tomcat 7.

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