2 Cartridge Pack Overview

This chapter contains an overview of Oracle Communications Offline Mediation Controller NetFlow Collection and Processing cartridge pack.

This cartridge pack is for the NetFlow collection and processing:

  • The NetFlow Collection Cartridge (CC) collects the Cisco NetFlow v1, v5, and v7 records.

  • The NetFlow Session Aggregation Processor (AP) aggregates Cisco NetFlow (V1, V5, and V7) records which have the following attributes:

    • Source IP addresses

    • Destination IP addresses

    • Source port number

    • Destination port number

    • IP protocol type

    • Day of year and hour

    Each aggregated NetFlow session record will contain the above information as well as total bytes, and total packets.

The NetFlow Collection and Processing cartridge pack will aggregate, into a single record on an hourly basis, NetFlow records belonging to the same NetFlow session. The aggregated records will be output by the AP after the user-configured flush timer has expired.

New Features

This section lists the new features.

NetFlow 6.0.0

This cartridge pack now works with Oracle Communications Offline Mediation Controller 6.0.

NetFlow 1.0.1

The NetFlow UDP receiving socket buffer size is configurable in the GUI. This new functionality replaces the "Packet Queue Size" parameter.

Alarms

All Offline Mediation Controller alarms are listed in the alarms.txt file located in the OMC_Home directory (OMC_Home is the directory in which you installed Offline Mediation Controller.) No new alarms are introduced in this cartridge pack.

Architecture

Figure 2-1 displays the architecture of the solution.

Figure 2-1 Solution Architecture

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Description of "Figure 2-1 Solution Architecture"