This chapter contains information on the requirements for creating and configuring the Oracle Communications Offline Mediation Controller Elastic Charging Engine (ECE) Distribution Cartridge (DC) node.
To configure the ECE DC node:
Log on to Offline Mediation Controller Administration Client.
The Node Hosts & Nodes (logical view) screen appears.
In the Mediation Hosts table, select a host.
In the Nodes on Mediation Host section, click New.
The Create a Node dialog box appears.
Select Wireless and click Next.
Select Distribution Cartridge (DC) and click Next.
Select OCECE and click Finish.
The New Node dialog box appears.
In the Name field, enter a name for the node.
From the Rule File list, select the rule file that matches the type of input file processed by the DC node. See "NPL Rule File Configuration" for more information about NPL rule file configuration.
Click the General tab and do the following:
From the Debug list, select one of the following:
To log short debug messages in the node log file, select OFF.
To log detailed debug messages in the node log file, select ON.
In the Max Log File Size field, enter the maximum size in bytes for the log file. When the log file reaches its limit, the node closes the file and opens a new file. The minimum value is 50000 and the maximum value is 2000000000.
Select the Enable Statistics check box, which enables node statistics.
Select the Enable bulk read/write check box, which enables the node to read or write files in bulk.
In the Read Timer field, enter the interval in seconds the node waits before checking for incoming data. The minimum value is 1 and the maximum value is 3600.
Select the Backup NAR Files check box, which enables backing up each network accounting record (NAR) the cartridge processes.
In the NAR File Retention Period field, enter the number of days to retain the backed up NAR files.
Select the Input Stream Monitoring check box, which enables the cartridge to monitor the input stream and trigger an alarm if the node does not receive any input for the set interval.
In the Interval field, enter the time period to wait before an alarm is triggered when the node does not receive any input. You also select the time unit: days (Day), hours (Hour), or minutes (Minute).
Click the OCECE Configuration tab and do the following:
In the Batch size field, enter the number of records per batch.
In the Max records per suspense/success file field, enter the maximum number of records per file written in the OMC_home/ocomc/suspense or the OMC_home/ocomc/success directory, where OMC_home is the directory in which Offline Mediation Controller is installed. The minimum value is 1 and the maximum value is 50000.
In the Waiting time per batch field, enter the time in milliseconds the node waits for the batch to be processed. The minimum value is 5000 and the maximum value is 1800000.
In the Timeout for Archiving NAR files field, enter the time in milliseconds the node waits for archiving the NAR files from the OMC_home/ocomc/scratch directory into their respective folders. The minimum value is 300000 and the maximum value is 1800000.
Select the Output bad records as NAR check box, which generates a NAR for the bad records.
Select the Log success records check box, which enables writing the records successfully processed by ECE to the file in the OMC_home/ocomc/success directory.
Note:
The ECE DC node logs successfully processed ECE records to the success file when the advice of charge (AoC) notification in ECE is set to include events as an in-session notification on the usage response message (PIGGYBACK). See the ECE documentation for more information about configuring AoC notifications.Click Save.