23 Interface Controls

Interface Controls allows you to control the business use cases to turn-On/Off and allows ability to set the default values. Most of the parameters are defaulted with a system default value, you can change the values to instruct OPERA for the preferred behavior. Default values used in the handling of inbound and outbound message when no mappings/conversion codes are found for the respective messages. The values configured here are used as defaults for incoming and outgoing messages if no matching conversion value from the conversion tables can be applied during data transmission, or if conversions are not activated.

1. From the OPERA Cloud Exchange menu, select Interface Controls , and then select Interface Controls from the drop down list.
2. The Type Property and Interface fields display the default interfaces based on the Switch Interface context.
3. Click Search.
4. Select a Group and drill down to the Settings areas for the Default fields available for Inbound and Outbound data flows. Defaults are applicable only for Blocks, Others, Profiles, Rates and Reservation groups.

• Block Parameters and Settings
  
• Generic Parameters and Settings
  
• Inventory Parameters and Settings
  
• Profiles Parameters and Settings
  
• Rates Interface Parameters and Settings
  
• Reservations Interface Parameters and Settings
  

Opera Cloud Global Parameters for Exchange

• OXI Message Purge Retain Days: Default is 10. Allows System Administrator to set the value between 3 to 28 days. Based on the configured value, messages are purged automatically when they are lapsed beyond retention time.
• OXI Outbound Delivery Retry Count: This functionality allows you to define the retry value for HTTP messages that fail to post because the server is unavailable. This value defined here is as a global configuration applicable for all interfaces and properties.

Note:

Retry Interval is taken from the sleep-time configured for the respective property and interface communication definition.