Allowance Allocation

In an offline-only implementation, CMPClosed Converged Monetisation Platform. The MDS Global product that supports customer care and billing for digital service providers. allowance and spend capClosed A service for customers that applies a limit to how much usage a customer can consume outside of their allowances or bolt-on extras, preventing spending over a certain amount. allocations are created and updated via both triggered and scheduled jobs:

This job is responsible for generating new allowance and spend capClosed A limit on a subscriber's service. allocations on subscriptionClosed 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 connection, bolt-onClosed An addition to a subscriber's main plan or product; also sometimes called an add-on. package purchases and spend cap additions and updates.

This job is responsible for creating new allocations for recurring allowances and spend caps. The job renews allocations and spend caps that are due to expire on the current date. This job can also be run on an ad-hoc basis to renew allocations due to expire on a particular date.

The following probes can be run against Allocation jobs:

Name Type Description
Allocation Renewal Verification Normal Alert This alert probe returns the number of quick job trigger records that were set as 'In-Progress' by the job today, which means the job started to process the record, but got stuck in the 'In-Progress' status. If the value returned by this query is above the threshold, then an alert will be sent to the recipients configured on this probe.
Allocation Monitor Verification Punctual Alert Alert probe which returns the number of quick job trigger records that have yet to be processed by the Allocation Monitor job. If the value returned by this query is above the threshold, then an alert will be sent to the recipients configured on this probe.
Allocation Renewal Batch Completed Alert This alert probe returns the number of times the Allocation Renewal job has run today. A value of zero indicates the job has not run today and an alert will be sent to the recipients configured for this probe.