This chapter provides an overview of Oracle Communications Network Integrity file transfer and parsing functionality. This functionality is provided by processors and cartridges.
In some networks, the following entities can write files to the file system:
devices
users
third-party applications
These files contain data that you can collect and model. Use Network Integrity to collect and model this data, to retrieve all the remote files and process them using processors. Network Integrity provides two processor types to help you develop cartridges, and then transfer and parse the required files. The processors are part of Oracle Communications Design Studio and include configuration options that help you create the cartridges that you need. This functionality applies to any domain.
The two processor types are:
The file transfer processor transfers files from a remote device or EMS to a Network Integrity file system. This processor can also be used to access files on a local file system, which is shared between all the nodes in a Network Integrity cluster.
The file parser processor parses, or interrogates, the contents of a file. The file parser can parse ASCII and XML files. See "The File Parser Processor" for more information.
Note:
Files that cannot be parsed by the file parser processor can still be parsed by adding custom parsing code to a discover, import, or assimilation processor implementation.