3 Installing Fraud Monitor

This chapter describes how to install Oracle Communications Fraud Monitor.

Overview of Fraud Monitor Installation

The following is an outline of the installation procedure for Fraud Monitor:

1. Set up a Mediation Engine machine with the Operations Monitor installed. See Operations Monitor User's Guide for configuring the platform devices and correlation.

2. Install Fraud Monitor on an Aggregation Engine machine.

3. Log in to Fraud Monitor and add the Mediation Engine to the list of MEs to which this instance connects.

4. Adjust the default rules configuration, if needed.

5. Configure email notifications and wait for the first incidents to be created.

Figure 3-1 shows an example of Mediation Engine configuration.

Figure 3-1 Mediation Engine Configuration for Fraud Monitor

Description of "Figure 3-1 Mediation Engine Configuration for Fraud Monitor"

Hardware Requirements

The following minimum requirements must be met to install Fraud Monitor:

• 2.6 GHz Intel Xeon processor, 64-bit with 8 processing threads

• 8 GB RAM

• 70 GB storage on a hardware RAID controller

• 2 Ethernet ports

Note:

For production use, Oracle recommends a more thorough sizing exercise completed with your Oracle sales engineer. Higher performance hardware may be required, for example, in cases with:

• High levels of monitored traffic

• High numbers of concurrent users

• High volumes of historical information