Enabling EFH

EFH is enabled by specifying no shutdown in the extended-failure-handling CLI context in a Gy Diameter application policy.

configure subscriber-mgmt
   diameter-application-policy <application-policy-name> create
      gy
         extended-failure-handling
            no shutdown

Table: EFH states lists the EFH states for a Diameter Gy session.

Table: EFH states
EFH state Description

Disabled

EFH is disabled (shutdown).

EFH cannot be triggered for the Diameter Gy session.

Enabled - active

EFH is enabled (no shutdown) and active.

A failure event occurred that triggered EFH. Interim credit is assigned to all rating groups and when either the validity time expires or the interim credit is used for a rating group, a new attempt is made to establish a Diameter Gy session with the OCS.

Enabled - inactive

EFH is enabled (no shutdown) and inactive.

A Diameter Gy session with the OCS is established. EFH is activated for the Diameter Gy session if a trigger condition occurs.