External Data

External Data handles external IDs and references. This includes the following job(s):

• External Reference Upload

  Some customers may require external references to be mapped to CMP Converged Monetisation Platform. The MDS Global product that supports customer care and billing for digital service providers. entities such as invoice numbers, subscription A billing entity that incurs a charge. Examples include a network attached device whose usage you want to measure and charge for, or a monthly software subscription numbers and account In the Cloud Monetisation Platform, a billing entity that can be used to manage payments on one or more subscriptions or payments for services. An account can hold details such as payments or invoices. numbers. This job loads the external numbers and the CMP entities with which they are associated into the CMP database. Each invocation of the job produces an audit outlining the external references that were loaded.

For more information on jobs, see the CMP 8.1 Batch Jobs and JSON JavaScript Object Notation. JSON is a lightweight format for storing and transporting data, often used when data is sent from a server to a web page. Schemas Guide. Alternatively, in the Administration Console An operations web console that allows batch jobs to be scheduled, run manually and monitored. The console also provides for viewing and modification of business and user applicable system configuration., navigate to Daily Operations > Jobs. Click any job in the Jobs List for more details.

The following daemons are associated with the External Data process:

Type	Category	Activity	Details
Load	External Data	From Generic Format	This daemon collects and decrypt generic CMP files and the creates CMP batches that are available for processing into CMP by the appropriate batch job.