Contents

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Preface

• Audience
• Downloading Oracle Communications Documentation
• Documentation Accessibility

1 CDK Design and Concepts

• Overview
• Life cycle of a node
• Data flow diagram
• DCNode class hierarchy
• DCNode class diagram
• DCNode class hierarchy
• DataProvider and DataReceiver
  • DataProvider
  • DataReceiver
  • Relationship between DataProvider and DataReceiver
    • DataProvider Push
    • DataReceiver Pull
• Transport
  • EITransport
  • OITransport
  • DCRecordFactoryIfc
  • Transport class hierarchy
• FieldProcessor
  • FieldProcessor class hierarchy
• DCFieldContainer
  • EIRecord
  • OIRecord
    • EIRecord and OIRecord Storage
  • NAR
  • DCFieldContainer class hierarchy
  • DCField
  • DCField class hierarchy
• DCStreamHandler
  • DCStreamHandler class hierarchy
    • DCStreamHandler class hierarchy (continued)

2 Node Attributes

• Collection Cartridges (CCs)
• Processor Cartridges
  • NPLProcessorNode
  • FileEnhancerNode
    • Lookup file
    • NPL File
    • NodeConfigGUI Fields
  • FtpFileEnhancerNode
  • LDAPEnhancerNode
  • Multithreaded Programmable Aggregation Processor Node
    • Configuring the Aggregator NPL Rule File
    • Traffic Volume Configurations
    • Java Hooks
    • Usage
• Distribution Cartridges (DCs)
  • ASCII DC Node
  • IPDR DC Node
  • XML DC Node
  • JDBC DC Node

3 Customizing the Administration Client GUI

• DCNodeConfigGUI and Related Classes
  • DCNodeConfigGUI Class Hierarchy
  • DCNodeConfigData
• Node Template Definitions and Groups
  • The nodeTemplateDef.xml File
  • The nodeGroupDef.xml File
  • Creating a node and rule file
• SNMP trap generation

4 Cartridge Creation Example

• Creating Airline Flight Node Chain
  • Existing Node Types
    • Collection Cartridg (CC) Nodes:
    • Enhancement Processor (EP) Nodes
    • Aggregation Processors (AP) Nodes
    • Distribution Cartridges (DC) Nodes
  • Create AirlineEINode (CC Node)
  • Create Node Chain
  • Starting FlightInfoSender Simulator

5 Transferring Custom Node Chains

• Scenario 1
  • Updating the node chain
• Scenario 2
  • Updating the node chain

6 Debugging Tools and Tips

• Running Nodes from the Command Line
• NAR Viewer
• NAR Generator