3WG007101 IGWB Hardware and Principle ISSUE 1 0

WG007101 iGWB structure
and principle
ISSUE 1.0
Wireless Curriculum Development Section

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 pool’s
capacity limit and volatile property.
 What’s 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 iGWB9812 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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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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 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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 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 4 O&M
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Chap2 hardware structure
 Hardware configuration
 principle
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Hardware configuration
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Subrack
W W W W
C C C S
C C C M
U U U U
Master
Standby
W W W W
C C C S
C C C M
U U U U
LAN SWITCH
GE
LAN SWITCH
virtualIP
virtual IP
2 3 serial port 2 3
BAU BAU
SCSI
1 4 1 4
disk arrary
heart beat
LAN SWITCH LAN SWITCH
OMC Billing system
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 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
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Working Principle
 The iGWB Server provides four network adapters to communicate externally.

 Local Area Connection Connected to the NMS and the bill console, functioning
as the first heartbeat path between the active and standby iGWBs.
 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.
 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 1;
 the second passes through serial port.
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Course Contents
Chapter 1 overview
Chapter 4 O&M
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iGWB software structure
Dual-system process
Operation
Access
MSOFTX3000 and Client
point KERNEL maintenance WINDOWS
process process process
iGWB Server (WINDOWS2000)
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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
Service flow of access point process
MSOFTX3000
Receives bills, and through a particular
Generates and protocol ensures that bills are received
transmits bills 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 FTP/FTAM
Billing center
billing center
(Back saving module)
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Course Contents
Chapter 1 overview
Chapter 4 O&M
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igwb Client Operation
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 The main framework function

 Client Login/Exit
 Office Management
 Relogin
 User Logout
 System Lock
 System Customization
 Viewing
 Navigation Tree Operation
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 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 /backsave/Second
|----3G |----3G
|----cdr |----cdr
| |----20030101
| |----100007f_20030101000000.btf
| | |----b00000001.dat
| | |----b00000002.dat | |----100007f_20030101001500.btf
| | |---- … … | |……
| | |----b00000060.dat | |----100007f_20030101234500.btf
| | ……
| |----20030131
| | |----b00001800.dat
| | |----b00001801.dat
| | | ……
| | |----b00001870.dat
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 Warn level Alarm type Description of alarm causes
Heartbeat Emergency Fault This alarm will be generated when all

interrupted alarm 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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WG007101 iGWB structure

Wireless Curriculum Development Section

 The CDRs generated by a switch are temporarily buffered in

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

 Know the system structure of iGWB

 《HUAWEI iGWB9812 iGWB User Manual》

Chapter 2 Hardware Structure

Chapter 3 Software Structure

 iGWB is Huawei standard charging gateway equipment, which locates between

 MSOFTX3000: call establish and control ;provide cdr pool

 Hard disk sub-system adopting RAID mode

 Flexible bill format conversion

Chapter 2 Hardware Structure

Chapter 3 Software Structure

OMC Billing system

 iGWB server: the IGWB Server communicates with

 The iGWB Server provides four network adapters to communicate externally.

 Communicating with host

 Communicating with billing center

Chapter 2 Hardware Structure

Chapter 3 Software Structure

iGWB Server (WINDOWS2000)

 For the communication among processes, the most

Directly saves the bills received by network

(Front saving module)

Combines and sorts bills according to the

Saves the bills by channel, forms the bills

Chapter 2 Hardware Structure

Chapter 3 Software Structure

 The main framework function

 Client Service Function

 How to analyze the trace information

 How to analyze the alarm information

Alarm name Warn level Alarm type Description of alarm causes

Heartbeat Emergency Fault This alarm will be generated when all

 How to perform the igwb Server routine maintenance

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