Cisco GPRS Charging Group Service Mode

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This object specifies the charging service-mode for a charging group. The charging functions in the GGSN involve mainly collection/accumulation of CDRs and transmitting CDRs to the Charging Gateways. The charging service-mode function has no impact to the collection/accumulation of CDRs. The charging service mode function only involves the transmission of CDRs to the charging gateways. The charging service-mode has the following two states: 'operational' : In this state, the charging group will observe normal charging operations. That is, accumulation and transmission of CDRs to the charging gateway will continue as is done normally. 'maintenance' : In this state, transmission of CDRs to the charging gateways will not be performed; However, collection and accumulation of CDRs will continue as is done normally. When the GGSN is in 'maintenance' mode, all the charging configurations will be allowed. In the system-init phase, the charging service mode CLI configs will not be handled. The handling of 'Redirecting Request', 'Node Alive' and charging gateway switchover mechanisms will not be performed while the charging is in maintenance mode. After the mode is changed to operational mode, the messages in the pending queue will be sent towards the newly configured active charging gateway and the normal functions will continue from thereon. When switching between modes, traps will be generated using cgprsCgGatewayGroupInServiceModeNotif and cgprsCgGatewayGroupMaintenanceModeNotif.