Billing and Revenue Management Version 7 Pipeline Developer

Description:

In this technical course, students will develop an in-depth understanding of the Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management Pipeline Manager and its architecture. The Pipeline Developer class is appropriate for students who need to customize pipeline behavior. The creation of an EDR container using description files is also discussed along with how to create a custom Extended Rating Attribute. In addition, the course explains the process for batch pricing and rating. During the hands-on lab, students will customize the Pipeline Manager using IScript and IRule to implement new system functionalities.

Audience:

Portal Developer

Objectives:

• Describe Pipeline Manager architecture
• Understand ways to customize the Pipeline
• Extend Pipeline with IScript and IRule
• Create custom ERAs
• Configure Pipeline Manager

Prerequisites:

Suggested Prerequisites:
Billing and Revenue Management Version 7 Technical Essential
Knowledge of basic programming constructs and logic
Proficiency with text editors, vi for UNIX users, WordPad
Familiarity with C or C++ programming, UNIX basic commands
Billing and Revenue Management Version 7 Technical Essentials

Topics:

Pipeline Manager Architecture
Explain the Pipeline Manager architecture
Use Portal Online Documentation to locate information

Pipeline Manager Directory Structure
Navigate through the Pipeline Manager directory structure
Interpret contents of the Pipeline Manager Registry files
Start and stop Pipeline Manager processes

The EDR "“ Input and Output
Define an EDR Container
Explain the function of: EDR description file, Stream Format description file, Input and Output mapping description files, Input and Output Grammar description files
Explain how input EDRs are converted to the EDR container format
Explain how to direct stream output to multiple files for loading into the Portal database

Implementing Pricing for Delayed Events
Describe rating process for delayed events
Explain the tasks required to implement a Price Plan for delayed events
Show how to break down a scenario into its Rate Plan components
Provide an overview of configuring a Rate Plan

Pipeline Data and Function Modules
Explain how the EDR is processed by the Function Modules in the Pipeline
Explain how Data Modules are used
Parse the contents of the Pipeline Manager log files

Using Function Modules to Customize Pipeline
Explain how existing modules can be used to modify Pipeline behavior
Explain how existing modules can be used to modify Pipeline behavior
Use FCT_Discard to remove or discard EDR

Customizing Pipeline Using IScript
Define the following language elements of IScript: Data Types, Operators, Functions, Control Structures
Insert IScript module into Pipeline to customize EDR processing
Use basic IScript functions to write a new IScript program

Advanced Customizations Using IScript
Explain database connection functions
Explain hash and array functions
Explain EDR block and edrNumDatablocks function
Use database connection and hash functions to build IScript program

Customizing Pipeline Manager Using IRule
Define IRules
Explain different methods for storing IRules
Demonstrate the IRule implementation of a specific scenario
Demonstrate how to store data arguments to a description file

Creating Custom ERAs
Explain how Extended Rating Attributes are used
Understand how to build a custom ERA