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Please do not remove Gateway entities completely from the system. It may cause distortions and overall mismatches in stored statistics. Instead, deactivate them.

Section overview

This section allows you to configure and integrate all switches into billing via RADIUS, SIP or xDR-files upload.  

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ColumnDescription
ID 
ID number of a gateway
Name 
Name of a gateway
RADIUS Server 
Description of current status and collector type of RADIUS Server (if such is applied)
Files CollectorDescription of current status and collector type of applied Files Collector (if such is applied)
SIP ServerDescription of current status of applied SIP Server (if such is applied)
AC ManagerDescription of current status of applied Active Calls Manager (if such is applied)

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Allows to create a new gateway

Allows to set up traffic processing rules

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Displays a current status - enabled or disabled - of RADIUS/SIP Server, Files Collector.

Allows deleting archiving a gateway from the system. Requires confirmation, requires confirmation and disabling all associated services

Adding a New Gateway

To add a gateway to the list, click the New Gateway button and specify parameters in a pop-up window with settings. You can access the advanced settings by clicking on a downward arrow  icon next to the name of a respective information block.

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Information BlockFields and Descriptions
General Information









General gateway and events processing information

Name

Gateway name

IP Address

Gateway IP address

Allowed For

Specify here, which resellers can use current gateway
ServiceSelect a service (calls, SMSs, data, etc.) for a current gateway

Tag

Indicate a particular tag to filter events by gateways while creating invoices and using reports.

Click the downward arrow  icon next to the General Information information blockto access the following advanced settings:

  • Ident Priority - a hierarchy of account identification. By default, the field value priority is IP, name, ANI.
  • ORIG ANI Ident -select ANI identification of originating events (available options: Src number ext, Src number bill, Dst ext, Dst number bill)
  • TERM ANI Ident - select ANI identification of terminating events (available options: Src number ext, Src number bill, Dst ext, Dst number bill)
  • Rate ORIG events by Dst In code Incoming Parties IDs checkbox - activation/deactivation of originating events billed by DST PARTY ID IN (if disabled, the Dst Party ID BILL will be used)
  • Rate TERM events by Dst Out code Outgoing Parties IDs checkbox - activation/deactivation of terminating events billed by DST PARTY ID OUT (if disabled, the Dst Party ID BILL will be used)
Files Collector


Information block regarding the File Collector settings. Files Collector gathers event data from xDR-files (activate this option if you plan to use integration via xDR-files)
  • Collector Type
Select a collector type you plan to use from the list
  • Data Source
Specify a data source, where xDR files are stored
  • From Path

Specify the xDR-files path (mask paths are allowed). Available only for SSH and FTP

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(warning)   Attention

If there are /var/cdrs folder with the latest CDR files and /var/archive_cdrs/ folder with outdated ones, and a user needs to download CDR files from both of them, he can use ; (semicolon) to separate paths or /**/ for recursive download. New paths may have the following look: /var/cdrs/**/bill*; /var/archive_cdrs/bill*.

 

  • Sender Match
Indicate the sender name or email. Solely for IMAP
  • Subject Match
Use a regular expression to search by message titles. Solely for IMAP

Click the downward arrow  icon next to the Files Collector information block to access advanced settings:

  • Overwrite TZ - timezone selection (if you select a different timezone, the system will ignore a timezone stored in an xDRs-file and use current value)
  • Skip Zero Events checkbox - activation/deactivation of zero duration events ignoring
  • Skip Released Events checkbox - activation/deactivation of released events ignoring
RADIUS ServerInformation block regarding RADIUS Serversettings. RADIUS Collectors gather packets from RADIUS-server via RADIUS-protocol (activate this option if you plan to use integration via RADIUS-protocol)
  • Collector Type
Select a collector type you plan to use from the list
  • Secret
RADIUS-server password

Click the downward arrow  icon next to the RADIUS Serverinformation block to access advanced settings:

  • Overwrite TZ - timezone selection (if you select a different timezone, the system will ignore timezone information stored in an xDR file and use current value)
  • Track Active Events checkbox - activation/deactivation of monitoring active events and event packets. This option is required for "Active Sessions" section to work and for RADIUS capacity control. Please note, it could slow down RADIUS for about 10-30%
  • Skip Zero Events checkbox - activation/deactivation of zero duration events ignoring
  • Skip Released Events checkbox - activation/deactivation of released events ignoring

  • Collect Accounting Data checkbox - if disabled, information from STOP packets will not be collected by database and Radius Accounting will be used only for Active Sessions monitoring. If enabled, information from STOP packets will be collected by the database. By default, this checkbox ismarked

  • Write internal xDR files checkbox - if enabled, the system will write RADIUS accounting data to internal xDRs (for systems w/o CDR files enabled).
SIP ServerAllows acceptance of SIP packets from the current gateway. Required for SIP Redirect routing feature
  • Collector Type
Select a collector type you plan to use from the list

This subsection allows pulling Active Calls data from the softswitch to help reduce the load on RADIUS. Please note that this functionality can be used either through RADIUS Server settings or AC Manager, not both.

  • Collector Type
Select a collector type you plan to use from the list

Click the downward arrow Image Added icon next to the AC Manager information block to access advanced settings:

  • Overwrite TZ - timezone selection (if you select a different timezone, the system will ignore timezone information stored in an xDR file and use the current value)

Files Downloading History

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