1. Collecting Revenue Assurance Data
  2. Installing Revenue Assurance Manager

2 Installing Revenue Assurance Manager

This chapter describes how to install Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) Revenue Assurance Manager and Business Operations Center (which includes Revenue Assurance Center).

Before you read this chapter, you should be familiar with BRM concepts and architecture. See the following:

  • BRM Concepts

  • Understanding Revenue Assurance Manager

    Note:

    Revenue Assurance Manager and Business Operations Center are optional features that you install separately.

    Revenue Assurance Center is a component of Business Operations Center. When you install Business Operations Center, you install Revenue Assurance Center.

Installing Revenue Assurance Manager

Note:

If you already have Revenue Assurance Manager installed, you must uninstall it before installing a new version.

The Revenue Assurance Manager server component is supported on the Linux and Solaris operating systems. For information on disk space requirements for those operating systems, see BRM Installation Guide.

To install Revenue Assurance Manager, see "Installing Individual BRM Components" in BRM Installation Guide.

After installing Revenue Assurance Manager, if your event tables are partitioned, run the partition_utils utility with the -o update parameter from the BRM_home/apps/partition_utils directory: 

% perl Bin_home/bin/partition_utils -o update

See "Updating Partitions" and "partition_utils" in BRM System Administrator's Guide.

Installing Revenue Assurance Center

Revenue Assurance Center is supported on the Windows platform and requires approximately 100 MB of disk space.

Before installing Revenue Assurance Center, obtain information such as the following about the machine running the CM to which Revenue Assurance Center connects:

  • Location for the software (if different from the default)

  • Computer or server name

  • Port number

  • Database number

To install Revenue Assurance Center, see "Installing Individual BRM Clients" in BRM Installation Guide.

Starting and Using Revenue Assurance Center

To start and use Revenue Assurance Center, see "Starting a BRM Client Application on Windows" in BRM Installation Guide.

See "Customizing Revenue Assurance Center" for information on how you can change features in Revenue Assurance Center.

Customizing Revenue Assurance Center

You can use the racustom.properties file to customize some features in Revenue Assurance Center. The file is located in BRM_Client_home\RevenueAssuranceCenter\lib, where BRM_Client_home is the directory in which the BRM clients are installed.

The racustom.properties file contains the following text: 

# racustom.properties
# Revenue Assurance Center's customizable properties file
# RA Details screen default view by option is configured using the # following key. The valid value for this key should be any of 0 #or 1 or 2 or 3 or 4
#Service Type = 0
#BatchID      = 1
#Revenue Stream = 2
#Output Stream   = 3
#Suspense Reason = 4
ra.ratingdetail.default.viewby.value=0
ra.reratingdetail.default.viewby.value=0
ra.status.success=Success
ra.status.suspended=Suspense
ra.status.writtenoff=WRITTEN-OFF
ra.searchdlg.rating.servicetype.items=SMS,GSM
ra.searchdlg.rerating.servicetype.items=SMS,GSM
ra.common.currency.symbol=$
ra.common.decimal.separator=.
ra.common.currentlocale=en

The file specifies the following:

  • The option settings from the Revenue Assurance Center Customize Table dialog box.

  • The default grouping parameter for the Revenue Assurance Center Details screen. The Details screen displays revenue assurance data organized by the default grouping parameter.

    You can manually change this default configuration by changing the number value in strings of this type:

    ra.ratingdetail.default.viewby.value=0

    The preceding line shows Service Type selected as the default. If you change 0 to 2, your default option becomes Revenue Stream.

  • The Service Type search options in the rating and rerating Search dialog box.

    Add service types to the following lines to add search options to the dialog box: 

    ra.searchdlg.rating.servicetype.items=SMS,GSM
ra.searchdlg.rerating.servicetype.items=SMS,GSM

  • The default system currency. The default is US dollars (ISO code 840); you can change this to any other currency type. To change the default currency to euros, use the following unicode escape sequence code:

    ra.common.currency.symbol=\u20AC

  • The default decimal separator (.) for the default currency. If the default currency is changed from US dollars to euros, change the decimal separator to a comma (,): 

    ra.common.decimal.separator=,

  • The current locale of the BRM server in which the CM is running. You cannot change this locale. The default setting is English:

    ra.common.currentlocale=en

Uninstalling Revenue Assurance Manager

To uninstall Revenue Assurance Manager, see "Uninstalling Optional Components" in BRM Installation Guide.

To uninstall Revenue Assurance Center, see "Uninstalling BRM Client Applications" in BRM Installation Guide.