diff --git a/config/schedulercfg.go b/config/schedulercfg.go
index 91b34301d..e0a8a0d1f 100755
--- a/config/schedulercfg.go
+++ b/config/schedulercfg.go
@@ -18,7 +18,11 @@ along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
 
 package config
 
-import "github.com/cgrates/cgrates/utils"
+import (
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/cgrates/cgrates/utils"
+)
 
 type SchedulerCfg struct {
 	Enabled   bool
@@ -53,10 +57,21 @@ func (schdcfg *SchedulerCfg) loadFromJsonCfg(jsnCfg *SchedulerJsonCfg) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-func (schdcfg *SchedulerCfg) AsMapInterface() map[string]interface{} {
-	return map[string]interface{}{
-		utils.EnabledCfg:   schdcfg.Enabled,
-		utils.CDRsConnsCfg: schdcfg.CDRsConns,
-		utils.FiltersCfg:   schdcfg.Filters,
+func (schdcfg *SchedulerCfg) AsMapInterface() (initialMP map[string]interface{}) {
+	initialMP = map[string]interface{}{
+		utils.EnabledCfg: schdcfg.Enabled,
+		utils.FiltersCfg: schdcfg.Filters,
 	}
+	if schdcfg.CDRsConns != nil {
+		cdrsConns := make([]string, len(schdcfg.CDRsConns))
+		for i, item := range schdcfg.CDRsConns {
+			if item == utils.ConcatenatedKey(utils.MetaInternal, utils.MetaCDRs) {
+				cdrsConns[i] = strings.ReplaceAll(item, ":*cdrs", utils.EmptyString)
+			} else {
+				cdrsConns[i] = item
+			}
+		}
+		initialMP[utils.CDRsConnsCfg] = cdrsConns
+	}
+	return
 }
diff --git a/config/schedulercfg_test.go b/config/schedulercfg_test.go
index 3e650fcdc..6c742739d 100644
--- a/config/schedulercfg_test.go
+++ b/config/schedulercfg_test.go
@@ -58,26 +58,38 @@ func TestSchedulerCfgloadFromJsonCfg(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestSchedulerCfgAsMapInterface(t *testing.T) {
-	var schdcfg SchedulerCfg
 	cfgJSONStr := `{
-	"schedulers": {
-		"enabled": true,				
-		"cdrs_conns": [],				
-		"filters": [],
-	},
+	"schedulers": {},
 }`
 	eMap := map[string]interface{}{
-		"enabled":    true,
-		"cdrs_conns": []string{},
-		"filters":    []string{},
+		utils.EnabledCfg:   false,
+		utils.CDRsConnsCfg: []string{},
+		utils.FiltersCfg:   []string{},
 	}
-	if jsnCfg, err := NewCgrJsonCfgFromBytes([]byte(cfgJSONStr)); err != nil {
+	if cgrCfg, err := NewCGRConfigFromJsonStringWithDefaults(cfgJSONStr); err != nil {
 		t.Error(err)
-	} else if jsnSchCfg, err := jsnCfg.SchedulerJsonCfg(); err != nil {
-		t.Error(err)
-	} else if err = schdcfg.loadFromJsonCfg(jsnSchCfg); err != nil {
-		t.Error(err)
-	} else if rcv := schdcfg.AsMapInterface(); !reflect.DeepEqual(eMap, rcv) {
-		t.Errorf("\nExpected: %+v\nRecived: %+v", utils.ToJSON(eMap), utils.ToJSON(rcv))
+	} else if rcv := cgrCfg.schedulerCfg.AsMapInterface(); !reflect.DeepEqual(eMap, rcv) {
+		t.Errorf("Expected %+v \n, received %+v", utils.ToJSON(eMap), utils.ToJSON(rcv))
 	}
+
+}
+
+func TestSchedulerCfgAsMapInterface1(t *testing.T) {
+	cfgJSONStr := `{
+	"schedulers": {
+       "enabled": true,
+       "cdrs_conns": ["*internal"],
+    },
+}`
+	eMap := map[string]interface{}{
+		utils.EnabledCfg:   true,
+		utils.CDRsConnsCfg: []string{"*internal"},
+		utils.FiltersCfg:   []string{},
+	}
+	if cgrCfg, err := NewCGRConfigFromJsonStringWithDefaults(cfgJSONStr); err != nil {
+		t.Error(err)
+	} else if rcv := cgrCfg.schedulerCfg.AsMapInterface(); !reflect.DeepEqual(eMap, rcv) {
+		t.Errorf("Expected %+v \n, received %+v", utils.ToJSON(eMap), utils.ToJSON(rcv))
+	}
+
 }