This chapter provides an overview of the Oracle Communications Offline Meditation Controller record enhancement charging Enhancement Processor (EP) cartridge to enhance call detail records (CDRs) before sending the records to the next node in the mediation node chain.
Before reading this chapter, you should be familiar with:
Offline Mediation Controller cartridge concepts. For more information, see Offline Mediation Controller Cartridge Development Kit Developer's Guide.
Offline Mediation Controller collects CDRs from different input sources and normalizes the CDRs by mapping the following external data to the internal data formats that are supported by Oracle Communication Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) before sending the enhanced records to the next node in the mediation node chain:
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When a record enhancement charging EP node is configured in the mediation node chain, depending on the configuration in the NPL rule file, the records are processed as follows:
The collection cartridge (CC) node processes the CDR input file.
If the input file is successfully processed by the CC node, the record enhancement charging EP node normalizes the CDR data by mapping the data to the internal data formats supported by BRM.
The next node in the mediation node chain processes the returned CDR data, which is distributed to the target charging system.