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Working with Active Charging Service
Enhanced Charging Service (ECS), also known as Active Charging Service (ACS), is an in-line service, 
which is integrated within the platform and provides mobile operators the ability to offer tiered, detailed, 
and itemized billing to subscribers. Data packets flow through the ECS subsystem and relevant actions 
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Charging Ruledefs—Charging ruledefs are used to specify what action to take based on the analysis 
done by the content analyzers. Actions can include redirection, charge value, and billing record 
emission. 
Rule Base
A rule base is a collection of rule definitions and their associated billing policy. The rule base determines 
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Viewing Active Charging Services
You can view the active charging services in logical inventory as shown in Figure 27-21. 
Figure 27-21 Mobile Technology Setup Nodes
Additionally, you can also perform the following for each ACS:
Viewing Content Filtering Categories, page 27-191
Viewing Credit Control Properties, page 27-191
Viewing Charging Action Properties
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Table 27-122 Active Charging Services in Logical Inventory
Field Description
Service Name Name of the active charging service.
TCP Flow Idle Timeout Maximum duration, in seconds, a TCP flow can remain idle.
UDP Flow Idle Timeout Maximum duration, in seconds, a UDP flow can remain idle.
ICMP Flow Idle 
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Viewing Content Filtering Categories
To view content filtering categories in logical inventory:
Step 1Right-click the required device in the Vision client and choose Inventory.
Step 2In the Logical Inventory window, choose Logical Inventory > local> Mobile > Active Charging 
Services > ACS> Content Filtering Categories.
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volume from the quota according to the traffic analysis rules. When the subscriber’s quota gets to the 
threshold level specified by the prepaid rating and charging server, system sends a new access request 
message to the server and server updates the subscribers quota. The charging server is also updated at 
the end of the call.
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Table 27-124 Credit Control Properties in Logical Inventory
Field Description
Group Name of the credit control group for the subscriber.
Mode Prepaid charging application mode, which could be Diameter or Radius.
APN Name to be 
IncludedType of APN name sent in the credit control application (CCA) message.
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Viewing Charging Action Properties
Charging Action is an action taken on the incoming data packets once the data packets are treated by the 
routing and charging rule components. User can configure independent actions such as allow, forward, 
and block traffic, and bind these actions with other routing and charging rule components. 
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Billing Action
Table 27-125 describes the details available for each charging action record.
Table 27-125 Charging Action Properties in Logical Inventory
Field Description
Name Name of the charging action.
Content ID Content ID to use in the generated billing records as well the AVP used by 
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Priority Vulnerability 
IndicatorDefines whether an active bearer can be preempted by a preemption-capable 
high priority bearer.
Priority Capability 
IndicatorDefines whether the bearer request can preempt the resources from the Low 
Priority Pre-empatable Active Bearers. 
Bandwidth
Bandwidth ID The bandwidth policy ID for the ACS.
Uplink Indicates whether uplink...