Description

Configuration name

Call Information Report

Applicable contexts

SS7 service

The Call Information Report configuration determines if Sentinel will request Call Information Reports from the network for an SS7 first-party call and if call alerting time will be chargeable for Mobile Originating calls. Call Information Reports can be used for more accurate charging as they’re produced directly by the MSC/SSF controlling the call and are therefore not influenced by network or external resource latencies in the service.

Any Call Information Reports received by Sentinel are also included in the CDR produced for the call.

Configuration

The default behaviour of Sentinel is:

  • to request Call Information Reports from the network for both originating and terminating call parties

  • not to charge for call alerting time.

Note A-party or B-party Call Information Reports can be suppressed in order to reduce network traffic.

In the case where the terminating party report is not suppressed, Sentinel can use this report when finalising the amount of credit consumed by the subscriber. For a Mobile Originating (MO) call this report can also be used to charge the subscriber for the call alerting time.

The Call Information Report configuration includes:

Parameters Value Description

SuppressOriginatingPartyCallInformationReport

Boolean

Boolean, if true, stops Sentinel from sending a Call Information Report request for the originating call party.

SuppressTerminatingPartyCallInformationReport

Boolean

Boolean, if true, stops Sentinel from sending a Call Information Report request for the terminating call party.

CallAlertingTimeIsChargeable

Boolean

Boolean, if true, will cause Sentinel to also charge the subscriber for call alerting time (MO calls only). This option can only be set to true if SuppressTerminatingPartyCallInformationReport is also true.

CallAlertingTimePrereservationSeconds

The number of seconds of credit to pre-reserve in the initial credit reservation if call alerting time is chargeable. This value should be set to the maximum expected alerting time. This option is only relevant if CallAlertingTimeIsChargeable is set to true.

CirTimeout

The number of milliseconds to wait for CIRp before timeout and continuing the session. May be set between range 500 - 10000, with a default of 3000.

Configuration profile naming

Configuration Profile Table Name Description Profile Naming

CallInformationReportConfigurationTable

Service configuration

SentinelSelectionKey (for example, OpenCloud::::)

Provisioning interfaces

The configuration can be provisioned using the Sentinel machine provisioning API — see Call Information Report REST API.

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