During the implementation project phase or the production operation phase, you configure and administer the SAP CC systems in your SAP system landscape.

System Parameter Reference

SAP CC 4.0 Core Server

Target Audience

Technology consultant
Implementation project team
System administrator, application administrator

Development consultant during the implementation project phase
Support specialist

Overview

Use this complete reference when implementing, installing, administering, monitoring, troubleshooting, and operating with SAP Convergent Charging. It describes all the indicators and all the parameters of the SAP CC Core Server systems in your system landscapes. For the other SAP CC systems, refer to the SAP CC Configuration Guide documentation.

Configuration Settings

This SAP product documentation is a complete reference to set up the business and the technical features of the SAP CC Core Server system. This server system is the main component of SAP Convergent Charging.

You can set up all the parameters relating to:

Business processing level (charging, master data management)
Technical and system processing level (communications, users, audit and metrics, logs and traces)
Security

Information

The SAP CC system provides you with a set of indicators to retrieve information about:

Installation
Statistics
Last trigger date of scheduled functions

Note

The system parameters created with the SAP CC Setup Tool user interface are not detailed in this document. For more information, refer to the SAP CC Configuration Guide documentation.

Group(s) Overview

All the indicators and parameters of the SAP CC Core Server system are listed in this document. They are grouped into several sets listed above.

Group(s)	Summary
Database Management Settings	This group includes all the system parameters concerning the back-end database management.
EIF (Exportable Item Framework)	This group includes all the parameters concerning the Exportable Item Framework (EIF).
Monitoring: Statistics	This group includes a particular indicators that you can monitor for getting statistics about the different services running in each instance of the SAP CC system.
Oracle Database Management Settings	This group includes all the system parameters concerning the Oracle back-end database management.
Output Data	This group includes all the parameters concerning the Charged item file processors.
Output Data (Billable Item Processing)	This group includes all the parameters concerning the transmission of billable items to SAP ERP.
Output Data (Data File Processing)	This group includes all the system parameters concerning the management of data files generated by the Data File Processor. Consult the SAP CC Library (Application Help) for details.
Output Data (Transaction File Processing)	This group includes all the system parameters concerning the files generated by the Transaction File Processor: Size, Frequency, Pathname. Consult the SAP CC Library (Application Help) for details.
Process: Account and Balance Management	This group includes all the system parameters concerning the account and balance management (master data for the end customers).
Process: Activation	This group includes the main system parameters concerning the activation process on provider contracts or subscriptions.
Process: Charging and Rating	This group includes all the system parameters concerning the charging process.
Process: Notification	This group includes all the system parameters concerning the notification management (account alerts, balance alerts, system administration alerts).
Process: Provisioning of Provider Contracts	This group includes all the parameters concerning the configuration and maintenance of contracts in customer master data.
Process: Provisioning of Subscriptions	This group includes all the parameters concerning the configuration and maintenance of subscriptions in customer master data.
Process: Rerating	This group includes all the parameters concerning the rerating process.
Process: Session-Based Charging	This group includes all the system parameters concerning the session-based charging process.
Process: Spending Status Monitoring	This group includes all the system parameters concerning the spending status monitoring process.
Process: Taxing	This group includes all the system parameters concerning the tax functions processed by the SAP CC system during the charging process.
Scheduling	This group includes all the system parameters used to configure the schedulers that manage different business processes (activation, alerts) and technical processes (cleanup, SLD, metrics).
Security Settings	This group includes all the system parameters concerning the security (SAP users, communications).
System: Audit and Metric Settings	This group includes all the system parameters concerning the audit function and the metrics recording function.
System: Installations	This group includes all the general system parameters and indicators.
System: Log and Trace Settings	This group includes all the system parameters concerning the logging and the tracing functions. The trace messages can be added to the destinations of the log messages or to different destinations.
System: Network and Communication	This group includes all the parameters for communication and network management.
System: User Management	This group includes all the parameters linked to user sessions and advanced password management. It includes logon and password information for the SAP CC users used by the instances of the SAP CC Core Server system to connect to different systems (SLD, database).
System: Versions and Identifications	This group includes all the general system parameters and indicators.
System Information: Host and JVM Memory	This group includes all the system indicators and parameters concerning the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) memory for each instance running in the SAP CC system.
TIF (Transaction Integration Framework)	This group includes all the system parameters concerning the Transaction Integration Framework (TIF).
Tuning: Bulk Operation Management	This group includes all the parameters concerning the fine-tuning of the bulk operations.
Tuning: Data Cache	This group includes all the system parameters and indicators concerning the data cache settings in the instances of your SAP CC system.
Tuning: Multithreading and Concurrency	This group includes all the system parameters concerning concurrency optimization including the number of threads and the number of connections for SAP Convergent Charging services.
Tuning: Throughput and Latency	This group includes all the system parameters concerning throughput and latency optimization.

Administration Utilities

The following user interfaces can be used to administer the SAP CC Core Server system in a development, a quality assurance, or a production SAP system landscape:

The Admin+ user interface can be used to set up a parameter with immediate change or delayed change (restart needed)
The Config Tool user interface can be used to set up a complete or partial list of system parameters (restart needed)
The Setup Tool user interface can be used to configure some particular technical functions (CIF, RIF, and notification policy) and business data (VAT rates, VAT rules, country tax policies, ...)
The Core Tool graphical user interface can be used to maintain master data (pricing catalog, customer master data) and some business data customized during the implementation phase (currencies, public hollidays)

Recommendation

For more information, refer to the SAP CC Configuration Guide and SAP CC Operations Guide.

Parameter Administration

Availability

The available parameters and indicators depend on the types of the instances of the SAP CC system: Dispatcher, Guider, Rater, Updater, Bulkloader or Taxer. An overall map details all the parameters and indicators.

Access and Change

All the indicators are read-only (RO) access and computed by the SAP CC Core Server system. They can never be configured.
The parameters are read/write (R/W) access. You can change their values with Admin+ or Config Tool. Some immediate and temporary changes are possible.

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