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OWG007101 iGWB
structure
and principle
ISSUE 1.0
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Review
The CDRs generated by a switch are temporarily buffered in

its RAM that is generally known as the CDR pool. These

CDRs must be saved into physical media for CDR pools
capacity limit and volatile property.
Whats more, CDRs generated by the switch calls (generally

called the Original CDRs) can not meet the requirements

of the Billing System in terms of contents or format, thus,
they have to be pre-processed by the Charging Gateway
(iGWB)

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Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

Know the system structure of iGWB

Know the hardware/software configuration of iGWB

Know software structure of iGWB

Know the Billing System interface specification supported by iGWB

Know the parameter configuration for iGWB

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Reference
HUAWEI iGWB User Manual

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Course Contents
Chapter 1 overview
Chapter 2 Hardware Structure
Chapter 3 Software Structure
Chapter 4 O&M

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Chap2 hardware structure

Hardware configuration
principle

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System Application
iGWB is Huawei standard charging gateway equipment, which locates

between the switch and the Billing System and is in charge of CDR receiving,
pre-processing and buffering.

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System Characteristics
MSOFTX3000: call establish and control ;provide cdr pool
iGWB Server: receive cdr from MSOFTX3000 with TCP/IP protocol
Billing system: communicate with iGWB ,using FTP File Transfer

Protocol or FTAM File Transfer Access & Management

If using FTP iGWB works as server ,billing system works as
client
If using FTAM iGWB works as Responder billing system works
as initiator

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System Characteristics
High reliability

dual-plane
automatic switchover mechanism upon fault to ensure reliability of the
running of the system and continuity of services.
Hard disk sub-system adopting RAID mode
Software auto-startup and restart after exit

auto-startup in case of power failure

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System Characteristics
Flexible bill format conversion

provides flexible configuration and conversion of bill formats

Large capacity

bills can be buffered in the iGWB for at least seven days

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Course Contents
Chapter 1 overview
Chapter 2 Hardware Structure
Chapter 3 Software Structure
Chapter 4 O&M

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Hardware configuration

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Hardware configuration
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heart beat
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OMC

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LAN SWITCH

Billing system

Hardware configuration
iGWB server: the IGWB Server communicates with MSOFTX3000 to accomplish

such operations as bill storage, format conversion and preprocessing.

Integrated shifter: The Keyboard/Video/Mouse (KVM) shifter is used to

implement switchover control of input/output devices. The integrated shifter

includes the input/output devices like Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), keyboard,
and mouse
LANSwitch:The LAN Switch is the communication channel between the iGWB

and MSOFTX3000.

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Chap2 hardware structure

Hardware configuration

principle

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iGWB running environment

To 0#LAN Switch

Netcard1

To 1#LAN Switch

Back of the IBM server cabinet

Netcard0

COM port and

USB port
Netcard3
Netcard2

To bill console and NMS

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To billing center

Working Principle
The iGWB Server provides four network adapters to communicate externally.

Local Area Connection

Connected to the NMS and the bill console.

Local Area Connection 2 Connected to LAN Switch0, communicating with

the active plane of host.
Local Area Connection 3 Connected to LAN Switch1, communicating with
the standby plane of host , and functioning as the first heartbeat path between
the active and standby iGWBs.
Local Area Connection 4 Connected to the billing center, providing billing
interface.
Communicating with host

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Working Principle

Communicating with billing center

Communicating with bill console and NMS
Heartbeat path

The system provides two heartbeat paths, the first of which passes
through Local Area Network (LAN, also called private network in the
system) composed by network adapters 2;
the second passes through serial port.

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Course Contents
Chapter 1 overview
Chapter 2 Hardware Structure
Chapter 3 Software Structure
Chapter 4 O&M

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iGWB software structure

Dual-system process

MSOFTX3000

Access
point
process

KERNEL
process

iGWB Server (WINDOWS2000)

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Operation
and
maintenance
process

Client
WINDOWS

iGWB software structure

For the communication among processes, the most mature

Client/Server mode is adopted, which takes one process as the
center, and the rest of the processes as sub-processes

realizing

the function that one process schedules and monitors

other service sub-processes.

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System Module Structure

KERNEL process
Access point process
Operation & maintenance process
Dual-system process

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Bill service processing process

MSOFTX3000
Generates and
transmits bills

Service flow of access point process

Receives bills, and through a particular
protocol ensures that bills are received
without repetition or loss
Network module

Directly saves the bills received by network

module and forms them into original bills
(Front saving module)

Combines and sorts bills according to the

requirement, and then transmits them to
the back saving module
(Bill processing module)

Saves the bills by channel, forms the bills

into final bills and submits to the
billing center
(Back saving module)

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FTP/FTAM

Billing center

Course Contents
Chapter 1 overview
Chapter 2 Hardware Structure
Chapter 3 Software Structure
Chapter 4 O&M

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igwb Client Operation

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igwb Client Operation

The main framework function

Client Login/Exit
Office Management
Relogin
User Logout
System Lock
System Customization
Viewing
Navigation Tree Operation

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igwb Client Operation

Client Service Function

CDR Browsing and Querying

Status Query
Log Browsing
Operator Management
Other Operation
Debugging Function

Debugging Information Browsing

Protocol Tracing Information Browsing
Workflow Information Browsing
Opening igwb Client

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CDR saving directory

/backsave
|----3G
|----cdr
| |----20030101
| | |----b00000001.dat
| | |----b00000002.dat
| | |----
| | |----b00000060.dat
| |
| |----20030131
| | |----b00001800.dat
| | |----b00001801.dat
| | |
| | |----b00001870.dat

/backsave/Second
|----3G
|----cdr
|
|----100007f_20030101000000.btf
|
|----100007f_20030101001500.btf
|
|
|
|----100007f_20030101234500.btf

Each final CDR file can be save in one or two shares. If saved in two shares,
the first share has different directory structure with the second share.

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igwb Maintenance
How to analyze the trace information

The trace files are in the directory igwb/trace/

If any abnormality or fault occurs to the system, these pieces of Trace
information will help us locate faults. Please note that trace
information records the fault information and some important running
information during the system running, but it is not necessarily the
system fault or abnormality. The system will also output Trace
information in normal cases.

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igwb Maintenance
Examples:

Configuration files fail to be opened !

Please check whether the file igwb/config/ini/igwb.ini in this
directory is available.
The available space for front save is less than the minimum alarm space
!
Open the file igwb/config/igwb.ini and change the parameter, or
delete some CDR files.

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igwb Maintenance
How to analyze the alarm information

Browsing the alarm via the alarm console

Reference to the relevant handing suggestions
Pay attention to the warn level and handle the fault in time

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igwb Maintenance
Examples:

Heartbeat interrupted
Alarm name
Heartbeat
interrupted

Warn level
Emergency

Alarm type
Fault alarm

Description of alarm causes

This alarm will be generated when all the
private networks used for dual-server
heartbeat are interrupted

Handling suggestion:

Base on the alarm parameters, check whether the hardware of the network
interfaces or serial ports used for heartbeat between the dual servers is
properly connected. Besides, check whether the IP address is correctly set

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igwb Maintenance

How to perform the igwb Server routine maintenance

How to view the running status of a process

How to configure the IP address of a server?

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Summary
Hardware structure
Software structure
O&M

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