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BRM 15.0 Upgrade : Clarification Required On Compatibility Matrixes (Doc ID 3023405.1)

Last updated on MAY 23, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management - Version 12.0.0.4.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

Given the following context:

- 12.0.0.4.0 version of Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) and Oracle Communications Elastic Charging Engine (ECE) running in two distinct environments, as following:
* ECE running in OCCNE 22.4.3 (this is about "Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core - 5G" (2.22.4)), in which ECE is running collocated with other network functions
* BRM running in private cloud

- a project to upgrade ECE and BRM (and other products in RMS stack) to 15.0 version

- versions of additional software required by ECE in OCCNE 22.4.3 are lower than version of the same software on which ECE 15.0 has been certified (details in table below)

- versions of additional software required by BRM in Private Cloud are lower than version of the same software on which BRM 15.0 has been certified (details in table below)

Technical Component BRM 15.0 Certified Version as per RN Current Version - OCCNE Current Version - Private Cloud (TCS)
RHEL 8.x (where x is 7 or later) 8.7 8.9
JAVA 8u381 1.8.0_362-b09 1.8.0_391-b26
Oracle DB 19.x , where x is 20 or later Version 19.22.0.0.0 Version 19.22.0.0.0
Compilers GCC 12.2 NA Not Known
Weblogic 12.2.1.4.0 NA 12.2.1.4.0
Oracle Unified Directory 12.2.1.4.0 NA 12.2.1.4.0
Coherence 12.2.1.4.13 12.2.1.4.16 NA
Perl 5.36.0 NA 5.32.1
Apache Kafka Client 3.5.1 2.8.2 NA
Kubernetes 1.27.x , 1.26.x 1.23.7 1.24.17
Helm 3.12.0 3.8.2 3.5.2
Fluentd 1.14.6 1.11.4 1.14.6
Weblogic Kubernets Operator 4.0.6 , 4.1.4 NA 3.3.6
Prometheus 2.40.0 2.36.1 2.28.1
Prometheus Operator 0.60.1 0.57.0 0.50.0
Grafana 10.0.1 9.5.16 9.5.16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Questions to be answered:

What is recommended approach from additional software perspective when upgrading BRM 12PS4 running on private cloud to version 15.0?

What is recommended approach from additional software perspective when upgrading ECE 12PS4 running on OCCNE 22.4.3 to version 15.0?

Solution

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