Tariscope 4.x. Administrator's guide
Chapter 3. Tariscope configuration
3.2. Applications for configuration
Configuration of the Tariscope system is performed in the following applications:
- Tariscope program;
- Tariscope Management program;
- Report Designer program;
- Tariscope Personal Area.
Basic configuration of the Tariscope system are performed either in the Tariscope Management mode of the Tariscope program, or in the Tariscope Management program. To configure the Tariscope system you equally can use both applications. Because the Tariscope program supports all configuration modes of the Tariscope Management program and in addition it allows to analyse call information, has a more user-friendly interface and more, we recommend to use the Tariscope program.
In the Tariscope program you can configure the data of:
- telecommunications nodes,
- telephone systems (PBXs or telephone exchanges),
- data devices;
- subscribers (customers);
- routes, trunks;
- rate plans;
- names of cities, mobile providers and appropriate area or telephone codes;
- IP networks;
- currency rates;
- services;
- prefixes;
- categories of calls;
- automatically performed tasks;
- the Tariscope Observer services;
- the Tariscope NetFlow Collector service;
- notifications;
- interaction with hotel systems;
- Tariscope users.
In addition to these parameters, you can adjust the CDR (SMDR) formats for telephone systems, which are uses reconfigurable formats.
A collection of the detailed information about calls is performed in the Tariscope Observer program. As mentioned above, configuration of Tariscope Observer is performed in the Tariscope program or Tariscope Management program.
To collect information about IP traffic of Cisco routers or routers of other vendors, which support NetFlow v5 or v9, IPFIX, rFlow, cFlow, the NetFlow Collector program is used. Configuration of NetFlow Collector is performed in the same programs.
The main work with Tariscope system is executed in the Tariscope program. This program has several configurable parameters that are associated with the display of information in this program and printing of documents.
In case when a Tariscope user is not satisfied for any reason a list of report forms provided in the installation package, he can upgrade any of these forms or create new ones. The user can use the Report Designer program for this purpose.
Features of a subscriber access to the Tariscope data through the Website are configured in the Tariscope Personal Area.
The Tariscope configuration can be started with any of the programs: Tariscope Management or Tariscope (using the Tariscope Management mode).
Consider the settings in these programs.