Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Accessing Oracle Communications Documentation
• Documentation Accessibility
• Document Revision History

1 Understanding Revenue Assurance Manager

• About Revenue Assurance Manager
• About Collecting Revenue Assurance Data from Billing
  • How Revenue Assurance Data is Collected from Billing
  • About Viewing Revenue Assurance Data Collected from Billing
  • About Splitting Revenue Assurance Data into Detailed Categories
    • Split Revenue Assurance Data
    • Splitting Revenue Assurance Data by Type of Charge
• About Collecting Revenue Assurance Data from Pipeline Batch Rating
  • About Using Event Notification to Generate Revenue Assurance Data
  • About Control Points
  • About Aggregation Scenarios
  • About Linking Pairs of Rating, Rerating, and Written-Off Control Points
  • About Flows
  • About Using UE Loader to Load Revenue Assurance Data
  • About the Revenue Assurance Data Collected in Rated Event Loader
  • About Collecting Revenue Assurance Data on Written-Off EDRs

2 Installing Revenue Assurance Manager

• System Requirements
  • Software Requirements
• Installing Revenue Assurance Manager
• Loading the CollectProcessAudit Trigger in Rated Event Loader
• Configuring Universal Event Loader to Load Revenue Assurance Data
• About Installing Revenue Assurance Center
  • Installing Revenue Assurance Center
  • Starting and Using Revenue Assurance Center
• Uninstalling Revenue Assurance Manager

3 Setting Up Revenue Assurance Manager for Pipeline Batch Rating

• Configuring Revenue Assurance Manager
  • Configuring Event Notification
  • Selecting Aggregation Scenarios
    • Loading Scenarios into the Pipeline Manager Database
  • Identifying Control Point Locations for Revenue Assurance Data
  • Configuring the FCT_AggreGate Module to Collect Revenue Assurance Data
    • Using iScripts to Derive Grouping Fields
  • Configuring SimpleSample Files
  • Adding Control Points to Flows
  • Linking Rating, Rerating, and Write-Off Control Points
  • Setting Up UE Loader to Load Revenue Assurance Data into the Database
    • Setting Up UE Loader Templates
  • Setting Up Batch Controller to Call UE Loader
• Setting Up Revenue Assurance Manager to Collect Data on Written-Off EDRs

4 Setting Up Revenue Assurance Manager for Billing

• Configuring BRM Billing to Collect Revenue Assurance Data
  • Enabling Billing Utilities to Generate Revenue Assurance Data
  • Configuring Bill Now, On-Demand Billing, and Auto-Triggered Billing to Collect Revenue Assurance Data
  • Configuring Item Subtypes

5 Using Batch IDs in Revenue Assurance Manager

• Tracking EDRs by Using Batch IDs
  • Keeping Track of Rejected EDRs by Using Batch IDs
• Setting the Default Batch ID Behavior

6 Configuring Revenue Assurance Alerts

• About Revenue Assurance Alerts
• Configuring Alert Thresholds
  • Defining Threshold Data and Time Periods
  • Defining Filter Conditions
  • Defining Field Value Ranges
  • Period Alert Example
  • Daily Alert Example
  • Weekly Alert Example
  • Loading Alert Details into the Database
    • Loading Alert Details by Using load_pin_config_ra_thresholds
• Configuring Email Alerts
  • Specifying Email Alert Text
  • Specifying Email Alert Details
• Generating Revenue Assurance Alerts

7 Using Revenue Assurance Aggregation Scenarios

• About Aggregation Scenarios
• Data Fields Collected by All Scenarios
• Fields Used to Group Scenario Data
• Preconfigured Aggregation Scenario Details

8 Customizing Revenue Assurance Manager

• About the Revenue Assurance Manager Opcodes
  • Using Policy Opcodes to Customize Revenue Assurance Manager
  • Customizing Audit Object Validation
  • Customizing /process_audit/batchstat Object Validation
  • Customizing Alert Behavior
  • Customizing the Revenue Assurance Written-Off EDR Summaries
• Creating New Aggregation Scenarios for Revenue Assurance
• Changing the Control Point for Data on Written-Off EDRs
• Customizing Revenue Assurance Center

9 Revenue Assurance Utilities

• load_ara_config_object
• load_pin_config_batchstat_link
• load_pin_config_controlpoint_link
• load_pin_config_ra_alerts
• load_pin_config_ra_flows
• load_pin_config_ra_thresholds
• pin_ra_check_thresholds