Section overview

The Routing Plans section is available if your JeraSoft VCS includes the Routing Module. To access Routing Plans section, please log in to your system and go to Routing > Routing Plans.

This section allows to manage your routing rules for customers, providers and destinations. Each routing plan should be assigned to a respective customer (originator) for proper work of the routing process.

You can combine both routing rules (dynamic and static) while creating a routing plan, also assign separate rules to each destination. Here you can find a list of created routing plans. 

Screenshot: Routing Plans section

ColumnDescription
IDID number of a routing plan
NameName of a routing plan
ResellerName of a reseller, a corresponding routing plan has been assigned to as owner
Code DeckName of code deck that has been applied to a corresponding routing plan
Rules Hunting

A respective hunting rule that has been applied to a routing plan

DR OrderA name of dynamic routing order that has been selected to organize routing rules
RulesAn amount of rules specified in a respective routing plan


Functional buttons/icons, presented in the section, are as follows:

Button/IconDescription

Allows to create a new routing plan

Allows to copy an existing routing plan to the section

Advanced Search

In the top right corner of the section above the table, an Advanced Search drop-down menu is located. By clicking on a blue downwards arrow  icon, a drop-down menu with the following structure is displayed:

Screenshot: Advanced Search drop-down menu

FieldDescription

Reseller

Select from the list of all Resellers, Sub-resellers and Managers registered in the system
Allowed forSelect from the list of all Resellers, Sub-resellers and Managers that are assigned to a routing plan in the Origination Limit field
Code DeckSelect from the list of all Code Decks in the system
TagsSpecify a certain Tag that was added to a routing plan
Additional DR Plan

Select a routing plan that was assigned as an additional in the Additional Routing Plan field

TERM Client

Specify a termination client that was assigned to any routing plan rule

To apply the specified search criteria, click the Search button; to cancel the applied parameters, click the Reset button.

Adding a New Routing Plan

To create a new routing plan, click the New Routing Plan button, and fill in the following fields in the pop-up window. 

Screenshot: Routing Plans window

Information BlockFields Description
General
Information 
General routing plan information

Name

Title of a routing plan

Reseller

Define the reseller/owner of a current routing plan

Additional Routing Plan

Specify a DR plan, which will be additional for a current plan

Code Deck

Select a Code Deck if you wish to have names of your code to be specified in the Code Name field

Origination Limits

Define the company or companies, which will have access to this routing plan (also this restriction will be extended to their sub-companies).

If there is no specified company, the following routing plan is available for all companies.

Termination Limits

Select the company or companies, which will have a limit in termination for vendors who use it (sub-companies are not included)

Rooting Loop Protection checkbox

Excludes originating client from the list of terminators. If it is unchecked, it will be possible to route calls between different accounts of the same client.

It is enabled by default.

Rules
Processing 
Options of rules processing

Rules Hunting

Select a hunting mode (the way how rules will be executed). They are as follows:

  • longest only – routing will find only the longest matching code
  • all matching  –  all possible matches will be found, including even the shortest codes

By default, the longest only option is set.

DR Order

Specify a method of routes sorting in a routing table. The options are:

  • by appeal/code – routes will be sorted according to their resulting appeal value and then grouped by codes
  • by code/appeal – routes will be grouped by codes and then sorted by appeal value

By default, the by code/appeal option is set.

PM

Define a Profit Margin value for a current rule here. It can be specified either as a percent value (e.g., 16%), or in a system currency (e.g., 5 for 5 USD).

Vendor Limit

Determine the number of allowed routes for the same vendor to use (if a vendor has multiple accounts). You can set the limit only for accepted account routes, not including the accounts blocked by the term groups. If the field is left empty, the number is unlimited.


(warning)   Attention

Please note that the Origination Limit and Termination Limit fields are visible only during:

  • new routing plan creation;
  • editing of already created routing plan if a specified Reseller of this routing plan has at least one sub-reseller or manager.

Routing Rules tab

Once a routing plan has been created, routing rules are to be determined (see screenshot below). To do that, click on a routing plan's name and you will enter Routing Rules tab, then, click the Add rule button and fill in the following fields:

Screenshot: Routing Rules tab 



FieldDescription
PriorityDefine a priority of rule execution if two or more rules have similar code or code name specified
Code

Enter a code, which will be used in a current routing rule, use * as wildcard.

If a DID type for a current routing rule is selected, you may specify a code:

  • Any destination – rules with longer codes will be ahead of a DID route, possibly leaving it out entirely if the longest only mode is used ( * wildcard will be used as a DID code)
  • Full DID – a DID route will always be the first route (an entire DID number will be used as a code)

By default, the Full DID option is selected.

Code NameIf you have a code deck assigned to this routing plan, a corresponding code name, specified in the Code field, will be displayed automatically. If no code deck is attached, the field will remain empty.
Type

Select a type of routing for a current rule:


  • Static Client - if selected, in the Terminator/Policy field you can specify a certain termination client
  • Static Account - if selected, in the Terminator/Policy field you can specify a certain termination account of a client
  • Dynamic - if selected, in the Terminator/Policy field you can specify a certain dynamic policy for the rule
  • DID - if selected, the Terminator/Policy field becomes inactive, and the Code field is automatically changed to Full DID
Terminator/PolicyIf you selected static type, you may specify a termination client/account here; if you selected dynamic type, specify routing policy for the current rule
PM

Define a Profit Margin value for a current rule here.

(warning)   Attention

If the PM field has been specified both for the entire routing plan and for a certain rule, the latter has a higher priority.


Params

A number of additional parameters available by clicking the icon (see screenshot below)

  • Time Profile
Specify a time profile from the list
  • Number Length
Set minimum and maximum length of destination number that will be matched by this routing rule
  • Balancing

Define percentage or proportion amount of traffic, which will be sent to a respective vendor who participates in balancing

(warning)   Attention

Please note that after changing balancing value, it is needed to restart SIP and/or RADIUS daemons.


  • Originator Tags

You can specify respective originator tags here. If nothing is specified, it works for all.

all - applies for originators if all specified tags are present. 
any - applies for originators if at least one of the specified tags is presented. 

  • Terminator Tags
Here you can add terminator tags that that will be used for terminators. If nothing is indicated, it works only for terminators without tags. Please note, this parameter is available only for dynamic rules
CapacityLimit capacity for the current rule (leave blank for unlimited)
Stop Hunt
checkbox
If this field is checked, this means that rule search will be stopped when matched with the current one and all the consecutive rules will not be executed for a current call

Screenshot: Routing rules settings

Import/Export tab

The Import/Export tab allows a user to either upload desired routing rules (choose a file on a computer through a form and click Process), or download current routing plan rules in a .csv file by clicking the Process button (see screenshot).

Screenshot: Import/Export tab


Please pay attention that the column order in importing file must correspond to the one presented on the screenshot below.

Screenshot: Importing file format

(warning)   Attention

After all info has been entered and rules created, you need to go to Management > Clients/Accounts sections and assign this routing plan to one or more of your origination clients or client's accounts.

Routing Plan

If you wish to change your routing plan settings, you can always do so by going to the Routing Plan tab. The list of fields in a tab is identical to that on a routing plan creation page (see screenshot below).

Screenshot: Routing Plan tab

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