1 Billing Care Installation Overview

Learn about the Oracle Communications Billing Care installer.

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About Installing Billing Care

Billing Care installation should be performed only by experienced system administrators. You must be familiar with the Linux operating system and installing Java-related packages before you begin the installation.

The Billing Care installer does one or more of the following, depending on which one you choose during the installation process:

  • Installs the Billing Care UI

  • Installs the Billing Care Migration Utility

  • Installs the Billing Care SDK

  • Installs the Billing Care REST API

Overview of the Billing Care Installation Steps

Installing Billing Care involves the following steps:

  1. Plan your installation. Determine the scale of your implementation, identify the required hosts and components, and plan the system topology.

    See "Planning Your Billing Care Installation".

  2. Review requirements and gather configuration information, such as:

    • Hardware requirements, such as disk space and physical RAM.

    • Software requirements, such as operating system (OS) versions.

    • Information requirements, such as IP addresses, administrative user credentials, host names, and port numbers.

  3. Install Billing Care. Use Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) to select the required components and configure the installation settings.

    See "Installing Billing Care".

  4. Complete the configuration. Review the settings that the installer creates and configure any additional settings required for your environment.

    See "Configuring Billing Care".

  5. Start Billing Care. Run start_billingcare.sh from Oracle_home/billingcare_rest/bin, where Oracle_home is the Oracle Home directory you select during installation.

    See "Starting and Stopping Billing Care".

  6. Verify the installation.

    See "Verifying the Billing Care Installation".

Ensuring a Successful Billing Care Installation

Before you install Billing Care, verify the system requirements and obtain the configuration values required by the installer.

To prepare for installation:

  • Verify that your system meets the hardware and software requirements.
  • Gather the required host names, port numbers, and BRM connection details.

  • For installations that require authentication, ask your security administrator to configure an OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity provider and provide the client ID, client secret, and other required connection settings. See "Configuring OIDC Authentication".

  • If you enable SSL/TLS, obtain the required keystore and truststore files and their access details. See "Configuring SSL or TLS for Billing Care".

  • Record configuration values for use during installation. Store passwords and client secrets securely.