This chapter provides an overview of system administration tasks you perform in Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management Elastic Charging Engine (ECE) and the tools you use to perform them.
To administer ECE, you perform the following tasks:
Deploy ECE software nodes onto hosts
Monitor ECE
Monitor physical hosts running ECE nodes
Monitor ECE clusters
Monitor ECE nodes
Monitor ECE services
Start and stop ECE
Start ECE charging servers in one or more ECE nodes
Stop ECE charging servers in one or more ECE nodes
Start and stop Rated Event Formatter processes
Deploy and manage Oracle NoSQL database data store instances
Purge ECE rated events from the Oracle NoSQL database
To administer ECE, you use the following tools:
Elastic Charging Controller (ECC)
Use ECC for managing ECE nodes in the cluster.
See "Using the Elastic Charging Controller to Manage Nodes".
Rated Event Formatter
Configure the Rated Event Formatter to purge unwanted rated events from Oracle NoSQL Database.
To administer ECE, you use the following third-party tools:
Java Monitoring and Management Console (JConsole) or any JMX client
Use JConsole or another JMX client for setting ECE configuration parameters.
See the discussion of using the configuration service in "Configuring the ECE System".
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control (by way of Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle Communications)
Use Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control to monitor ECE nodes.
You can use Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle Communications to monitor ECE nodes and clusters. Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle Communications provides management capabilities for Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) and other supported Oracle Communications applications. For detailed information about the management capabilities provided by Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle Communications, see Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle Communications System Administrator's Guide.
The following placeholders are used in this guide to refer to the directories that contain ECE system components. For example, ECE_Home is where the ECE Server software is installed.
Table 1-1 Directory Placeholders
| Placeholder | Directory |
|---|---|
|
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. |