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8.9 Management

8.9.1 Device management
MOC devices cover a large area, exist for a long time and could be "on the move", so it may be
difficult for operators or subscribers to manage these devices manually. Thus, MOC devices and
gateways should be managed and monitored remotely (for example, updating the firmware to
correct faults).
MOC devices with a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) may be deployed outdoors without
human supervision and it might happen that a given UICC is put into another device without
permission of the UICC owner. Thus, in order to avoid such issues, the change of association
between an MOC device and UICC should be accessible by MOC applications interacting with
those MOC devices.
When MOC devices and gateways provide service logic, the MOC devices and gateways provide
support capabilities for both the customer and the service. MOC devices and gateways are required
to be managed in terms of both network and service management.
The requirements of MOC device management are as follows:

1) MOC applications are required to support mechanisms for managing gateways acting as
traffic aggregators (a gateway aggregates traffic and acts as a channel).
2) MOC applications are required to monitor the state of various aspects of MOC devices and
gateways including:
a) abnormal behaviour of MOC devices and gateways, such as an active service not being
aligned with the subscribed feature;
b) the association between the MOC devices and gateways and the UICC;

c) the attachment information of MOC devices and gateways, such as attachment location;
d) the connectivity of MOC devices and gateways.
3) MOC applications are required to support mechanisms to perform simple and scalable pre-
provisioning of MOC devices and gateways, enable and disable features, report errors from
devices, and query device status.
4) MOC applications are required to support mechanisms to perform software upgrades
(e.g., provisioning of new service logic and/or bug fixes to be loaded on devices and/or
gateways, including applications and system software).
5) MOC applications are required to manage low capability MOC devices using lightweight
mechanisms.

8.9.2 Service profile management
The service profile of a specific MOC application is composed by a set of information specific to
that MOC application. It may include, but it is not limited to, the MOC application identifier, MOC
application provider identifier and application data types.
MOC applications have the following requirements:
1) MOC applications are recommended to use standard service profiles for registration and
discovery.
2) MOC applications are required to support mechanisms to perform service profile updates.

8.9.3 Device profile management

The MOC device profile is a set of information related to MOC devices and MOC gateways. As
there are various types of MOC devices and MOC gateways, the device profiles are helpful in the
management of large numbers of heterogeneous devices and gateways.

270 Rec. ITU-T Y.4109/Y.2061 (06/2012)