This guide describes the procedures for implementing Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management Elastic Charging Engine (ECE) in your charging system, including configuring usage-charging business rules and configuring connections to other applications in the charging system.
This guide is for system administrators, database administrators, and developers who plan a charging system that includes ECE, who integrate ECE with applications in the charging system, and who implement ECE charging functionality in the manner required for their business needs.
This guide assumes that users have a working knowledge of Linux, Solaris, Oracle Coherence, and Oracle NoSQL Database, and are familiar with the following topics:
Operating system commands
Database configuration
Network management
Data store configuration in an Oracle NoSQL system
Product offering creation in Oracle Communications Pricing Design Center
Customer account creation in Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM)
This guide assumes that users have installed ECE, either as an ECE standalone installation (to become familiar with how ECE works), or as an ECE integrated installation. See BRM Elastic Charging Engine Installation Guide.
This guide assumes that users have become familiar with ECE concepts. See BRM Elastic Charging Engine Concepts.
The following placeholders are used in this guide to refer to the directories that contain ECE system components:
| Placeholder | Definition |
|---|---|
| ECE_home | The directory in which ECE server software is installed. This directory contains the ECE Server directory (/oceceserver) and the ECE SDK directory (/ocecesdk) and various installation-related files. |
| PDC_home | The directory in which PDC software is installed. |
ECE documentation and additional Oracle documentation; such as Oracle Database documentation, is available from Oracle Help Center:
Additional Oracle Communications documentation is available from the Oracle software delivery Web site:
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The following table lists the revision history for this book.
| Version | Date | Description |
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| E70768-01 | April 2016 | Initial release. |
| E70768-02 | September 2016 | Documentation updates for ECE 11.3 Patch Set 1.
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| E70768-04 | December 2016 | Documentation updates for ECE 11.3 Patch Set 2.
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| E70768-05 | July 2018 | Documentation updates for ECE 11.3 Patch Set 8.
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