This feature uses information from the incoming INVITE request to determine whether Ro Online charging should be applied to the session, by setting the MonitorCallOnly session state variable. The MonitorCallOnly variable affects whether Sentinel VoLTE should perform online charging through Diameter Ro, or only monitor the call. Online Charging through CAP is handled by a separate service composition, see Service Compositions for more details about this. Offline Charging and whether to use CDRs, Diameter Rf or both is controlled by the VoLTE Interim CDR Feature.

Feature cheat sheet

B2BUA Instance SAS Support Originating / Terminating Point in Session Plan Network Operator Data Subscriber Data Stateful or Stateless POJO Feature or SBB Feature

Any and All

No

Originating and Terminating

SIPAccess_SessionAccept

No

No

Stateless

POJO

Session output variables

Session State variable name Variable type Comments
MonitorCallOnly

boolean

True if the feature finds the Route Header “oc-charge-mode” Parameter set to cap or offline.

ChargeMode

ChargeMode (enum)

The charge mode determined by the feature.

Statistics

DetermineChargeMode statistics are tracked by the sentinel.volte.sip SBB and can be found under the following parameter set in REM:
SLEE-Usage → sentinel.volte.sip service → sentinel.volte.sip SBB → feature → DetermineChargeMode
or with rhino-stats:
"SLEE-Usage.Services.ServiceID[name=sentinel.volte.sip,vendor=OpenCloud,version=4.1].SbbID[name=sentinel.volte.sip,vendor=OpenCloud,version=4.1].feature.DetermineChargeMode"

Name Description
Started

Incremented each time the feature runs

FailedToStart

Incremented when a fatal error occurs before feature execution

IssuedWarning

Incremented when a non-fatal error occurs during feature execution

FailedDuringExecution

Incremented when a fatal error occurs during feature execution

TimedOut

Incremented when feature execution does not complete within a reasonable time frame

MonitorOnly

Incremented when the feature has set the MonitorCallOnly Session State field to true

NonMonitorOnly

Incremented when the feature has set the MonitorCallOnly Session State field to false

Error

Incremented when the feature was unable to determine the charge mode

Behaviour

This feature checks information from the incoming SIP request in order to set a Session State variable which affects Sentinel VoLTE’s charging behaviour.

Values examined

Value Name Source Notes

Route Header “oc-charge-mode” Parameter

Incoming SIP request

This is a custom parameter on the URI of the top-most route header. It is expected that this will be added by the S-CSCF based on iFCs.

Charge mode selection circumstances

Route Header “oc-charge-mode” Parameter Resulting Charging behaviour

oc-charge-mode=ro

MonitorCallOnly set to false, Diameter Ro charging will be applied, ChargeMode set to RO

oc-charge-mode=cap

MonitorCallOnly set to true, Diameter Ro charging will not be applied, ChargeMode set to CAP

oc-charge-mode=offline

MonitorCallOnly set to true, Diameter Ro charging will not be applied, ChargeMode set to OFFLINE

oc-charge-mode has any other value

MonitorCallOnly set to false, Diameter Ro charging will be applied, ChargeMode set to DEFAULT

oc-charge-mode parameter absent

MonitorCallOnly set to false, Diameter Ro charging will be applied, ChargeMode set to DEFAULT

Note that the VoLTE Interim CDR Feature is configured to select whether interim CDRs and/or ACRs are used. It is used if Diameter Rf and/or Interim CDRs are selected during installation. It’s settings are independent of the oc-charge-mode Route Header parameter.

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