Proxim Orinoco AP-2500 User Manual page 123

Public Space Parameters
5. The AP should now send copies of credit card transactions to the configured servers running the sample bill
mirroring software. The server saves these transactions to two log file: raw.txt (contains full XML strings) and
log.txt (contains only the incoming data from the AP).
Enabling Bill Mirroring
Follow these steps the enable bill mirroring:
1. Login to the AP's Web browser interface.
2. Click Subscriber > Billing > Mirroring.
Figure 5-14 Credit Card Mirroring Screen
3. Place a check mark in the Enable Mirroring box.
4. Enter a Property Identification code in the Property ID field.
• You can define this field as necessary to identify the location of the AP.
5. Enter an AP-2500 Identification code in the Access Point ID field.
• This should be a unique value for each AP. This field differentiates between APs if you have multiple units
installed in the same location (that is, with the same Property ID).
6. Select a Retransmit Method for billing records being sent to the primary (A) or secondary (B) servers:
• Alternate: This is a round-robin method (e.g., try A, try B, try A, try B)
• Do Not Alternate: This is the fail-over method (e.g., try A twice, try B twice).
7. Enter the number of Retransmit Attempts in the field provided. This value specifies how many times the AP
will attempt to transmit the billing record before determining that the transmission has failed.
8. Enter the Retransmit Delay (in seconds) in the field provided. This value specifies how long the AP will wait
between transmission attempts.
9. Enter the following settings for the primary server, secondary server (if any), and carbon copy server that will
receive billing records from the AP:
• IP: Enter the server's IP address in the field provided.
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