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Cisco Prime Network 4.0 User Guide
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Chapter 25 Monitoring Mobile Technologies
Working with Active Charging Service
volume from the quota according to the traffic analysis rules. When the subscriber’s quota gets to the
threshold level specified by the prepaid rating and charging server, system sends a new access request
message to the server and server updates the subscriber's quota. The charging server is also updated at
the end of the call.
ECS supports the following credit control applications for prepaid charging:
• RADIUS Credit Control Application—RADIUS is used as the interface between ECS and the
prepaid charging server.
• Diameter Credit Control Application—The Diameter Credit Control Application (DCCA) is used to
implement real-time credit control for a variety of services, such as networks access, messaging
services, and download services.
To view credit control properties in logical inventory:
Step 1 Right-click the required device in Prime Network Vision and choose Inventory.
Step 2 In the logical inventory window, choose Logical Inventory > local > Mobile > Active Charging
Services >ACS > Credit Control.
Prime Network Vision displays the list of credit control groups configured under the container. You can
view the individual credit control group details from the table on the right pane or by choosing Logical
Inventory > local > Mobile > Active Charging Services > ACS > Credit Control > Credit Control
Group.
You can also view the following details by clicking the respective node under the credit control group:
• Diameter
• Failure Handling
• Pending Traffic Treatment
• Quota
• Server Unreachable Failure Handling
Table 25-77 describes the details available for each credit control group.
Table 25-77 Credit Control Properties in Logical Inventory
Field Description
Group Name of the credit control group for the subscriber.
Mode Prepaid charging application mode, which could be Diameter or Radius.
APN Name to be
Included
Type of APN name sent in the credit control application (CCA) message.
Trigger Type Condition based on which credit reauthorization is triggered from the server.
Diameter MSCC Final
Unit Action Terminate
Indicates whether to terminate a PDP session immediately when the
Final-Unit-Action (FUA) in a particular multi service credit control (MSCC)
is set as Terminate and the quota is exhausted for that service, or to terminate
the session after all MSCCs (categories) have used their available quota.
Diameter Peer Select table
Peer Primary hostname.
Realm Realm for the primary host.