8 Administration Tasks

Operating Procedures

Introduction

This chapter provides the operating procedures for the application.

These procedures are normally performed once, after the installation and configuration of the system.

Managing Processes

Introduction

The Short Message Charging Bundle service runs within the slee_acs process, using the ccsSvcLibrary.so and smcbMacroNodes.so libraries.

This means SMCB is started when the SLEE on the SLC is started (as acs_oper).

Starting the SLEE

Follow these steps to start the service.

Step Action
1 Login as the acs_oper unix user.
2

Start the SLEE by typing:

/IN/service_packages/SLEE/bin/slee.sh

Stopping the SLEE

Follow these steps to stop the service.

Step Action
1 Login as the acs_oper unix user.
2

Stop the SLEE by typing:

/IN/service_packages/SLEE/bin/stop.sh

Turning Debug ON / OFF

Procedure

Follow these steps to set the debug option.

Step Action
1

To turn on debug, set the UNIX environment variable DEBUG to SMCB_FN or all.

Example: 
DEBUG=SMCB_FN; export
DEBUG

Note: The all selection of the DEBUG section displays all sections of debug. This is the most verbose debug level, so using the SMCB_FN section is recommended when specifically checking the SMCB service.

2 To turn off debug, unset the DEBUG environment variable.
3 Restart the SLEE to make the new setting effective.

Re-reading Database Configuration

Procedure

Follow these steps to check when the Short Message Charging Feature Node last re-read the database configuration.

Step Action
1 Set the UNIX environment variable DEBUG to SMCB_Cache, for example: 
DEBUG=SMCB_Cache;
export DEBUG
2

Restart the SLEE to make the new setting effective.

Result: SMCB Cache related actions are shown, allowing the monitoring of the cache state.

3

Check the system logfile for the following entry and note its timestamp:

NOTICE: CCS SMCB_FN (55): 1003: Rating cache
updated
4

Check the value in eserv.config for:

CCS.smcbMacroNodes.CacheRefreshInterval

5 To turn off debug, the DEBUG environment variable must be unset.
6 Restart the SLEE to make the new setting effective.