You can obtain a data feed with real-time analytics data from one or more MPE devices. This feature is referred to as Oracle Communications Policy Management Analytics and is generated by events that occur in the system. The analytics data stream (ADS) contains data about message processing in the MPE device and specific details about the policies that are triggered by those messages. The policy-related messages in the ADS are known as Policy Event Records (PERs).
Data contained in ADS messages can be analyzed by a third-party analytics system. The MPE device supports load-balancing of ADS messages across multiple connections for efficient transmission to a single analytics client.
Data is sent as a byte-encoded set of type length values (TLV) over a client-initiated TCP connection. The analytics client implements a customized interface to read and process the data sent from the MPE device over the connection. TLVs represent different pieces of information about an event, which when pieced together make up an ADS message.
The Oracle Communications Policy Management Analytics feature is implemented using a defined set of TLVs so that the data sent from the MPE device can be targeted at any third-party analytics client. Refer to Analytics Data Stream Reference for a list of supported TLVs for the feature.
After the feature is configured, ADS can be enabled for specified MPE devices (see Configuring MPE Protocol Options) or policies or policy groups (see Policy Wizard Reference).