Installing and Configuring DPDK with Internet

This section describes the procedure for installing and configuring DPDK for session monitor.

Note:

You must be connected to the internet before starting the installation. Running the following command installs, downloads the required files, and configures the DPDK automatically.

For DPDK installation, for Oracle X7-2 server has the following pre-requisite:

Create a file, /opt/oracle/ocsm/etc/iptego/white_list_dpdk.local with the value i140e before triggering DPDK installation.

1. Log into the Platform Setup Application page:
   1. Select Capture Settings.
   2. Check the box in Monitoring column against each sniffing interface that you want to use for capturing the traffic.
2. Log into the machine that hosts the probe or mediation engine and probe as a root user.
3. (Optional) For better understanding of the network, CPU, and NUMA nodes of the server, you can run the following command to review the output of the system_layout.py script, that will display system information:

   source /opt/oracle/ocsm/ocsm_env.sh
   /opt/oracle/ocsm/usr/share/pld/rat/system_layout.py

4. Run the following commands which guides you through the installation:

    source /opt/oracle/ocsm/ocsm_env.sh
   /opt/oracle/ocsm/usr/share/pld/rat/configure_dpdk.py

   The configure_dpdk.py script downloads and installs the required DPDK driver, the corresponding Kernel headers required for compiling DPDK driver, compiles, installs the driver, and creates server and Session Monitor DPDK related configuration.
5. (Optional) To view all the available advanced options, run the following command:

   /opt/oracle/ocsm/usr/share/pld/rat/configure_dpdk.py -h

6. Reboot the machine that hosts the probe or mediation engine and probe.