Topology

The Server Manager builds a topology of the deployed vEPC components. The topology objects represent the vEPC deployed components, their relationships, and their association with tenants and virtual infrastructure.

vEPC topology objects include:

• Management Configuration Module (vMCM): A Management Configuration Module VM instance running core processes, including node and configuration functions.
• Content Services Module (vCSM): A Content Services Module VM instance running core content service functionality, including control/subscriber management processes and infrastructure tasks (statistics collection, alarms, events, and so on).
• Subscriber Services Module (vSSM): A Subscriber Services Module VM instance running Datapath processes and supporting infrastructure services.
  • Responsible for receiving and transmitting packets to and from MCC.
  • Logical IP interface termination, IPSEC.
  • Subscriber and APN tunnel termination.

ControlServiceFunctions relationship and attributes

ControlServiceFunctions has the following relationship:

• vHostedBy with VirtualMachine

Table 1. Attributes for the ControlServiceFunctions objects

Attribute	Description	Allowed Values

ManagementControlFunctions relationship and attributes

ManagementControlFunctions has the following relationship:

• vHostedBy with VirtualMachine

Table 2. Attributes for the ManagementControlFunctions objects

Attribute	Description	Allowed Values

SubscriberServiceFunctions relationship and attributes

SubscriberServiceFunctions has the following relationship:

• vHostedBy with VirtualMachine

Table 3. Attributes for the SubscriberServiceFunctions objects

Attribute	Description	Allowed Values