Cyclades AlterPath ACS, Command Reference Manual

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Additional Features and Applications
9.5 Billing
All ACS family of products can be used as an intermediate buffer to collect serial data
(like billing tickets from a PBX), making them available for a posterior file transfer.
Different ports can have simultaneous "billing sessions".
General Feature Description
ACS reads the serial port and saves the information to Ramdisk files, which is limited to
the maximum number of records per file. After the files are closed, they are available for
transfer at
/var/run/DB , or an alternate path defined by the user in the pslave.conf file.
See Table 8.2 on page 299 for additional details on billing file configuration.
How to configure it
The configuration for this feature is made in the /etc/portslave/plsave.conf file.
Billing parameters can be configured using the vi method and by using the wizard.
VI method - Passed Values and Involved Parameters
Open the /etc/portslave/pslave.conf file and configure the following parameters
according to your application:
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all.protocol - billing
Data Buffering Section:
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all.billing_records - 50
•
all.billing_timeout - 60 min
•
all.billing_eor - "\n"
For detailed description about the parameters shown above, please see Chapter 8,
“Profile Configuration” .
NOTE:
All presented values above are going to implement the billing feature for ALL ports
of the product. If the configuration for a specific port is required, all related parameters
beginning with all must be changed to S.x, where x is the number of the port to be configured.