Reconciliation of Billing Records
Important | The Reconciliation of Billing Records is a customer-specific feature that requires IE level compliance across both the SMF and the CHF. |
The communication of SMF and CHF involves both the converged CHF and offline CHF. When all the converged CHF servers are unreachable, the SMF falls back to the offline CHF for uninterrupted usage reporting. Then, the SMF sends the usage to the offline CHF.
The reporting to offline CHF does not include any differentiator in Used Unit Container (UUC) for the offline service and the converted offline service.
SMF supports a new enumerated value “CONVERTED_OFFLINE” in the Quota Management Indicator (QMI) added to the UUC. The SMF uses this enumerated value to mark the converted offline usage records sent to the offline CHF.
With this feature, the offline CHF server can differentiate between normal offline usage and converted usage records.