Audience of This Guide
This guide is primarily for:
- CloudBlue Commerce configuration engineers
- Maintenance and support engineers
- Service connector developers
About Rating Orchestrator
CloudBlue Commerce is an e-commerce solution that consists of a variable set of components based on micro-service architecture.
Business and Technical Purpose
To be a fully functional solution for usage-based services, your CloudBlue Commerce installation must include the following components:
Rating Orchestrator is a component which manages the usage data rating process:
- Requests unprocessed usage reports from Usage Collector through the periodic OSS task "Rating Orchestrator ... schedule".
- Sends usage data to Rating Engine for processing and receives calculated charges.
- Creates billing orders with the calculated charges for the PR, CR, and TR rating models.
Rating Orchestrator is microservice with its own release cycle and is required for CloudBlue Commerce PAYG solutions.
Usage Data Flow Diagram
The functional diagram below illustrates a high level usage data flow for CloudBlue Commerce installations that support usage-based services, including the Rating Orchestrator function:
Version Compatibility with Other CloudBlue Commerce 21.0 Components
Rating Orchestrator is compatible with other CloudBlue Commerce 21.0 components in the following way:
| CloudBlue Commerce 21.0 | |
| 21.1 | |
| 21.1 | |
| 21.1 | |
| 1.5 | |
| 1.1 |