Installing and Configuring DPDK without Internet

DPDK can be installed and configured without an internet connection.

  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, run the system_layout.py script to display system information.
    source /opt/oracle/ocsm/ocsm_env.sh
    /opt/oracle/ocsm/usr/share/pld/rat/system_layout.py
  4. Run the following command:
    yum install kernel-uek-devel-$(uname -r)
  5. Download the DPDK tar file from http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/refs/ into the folder /var/cache/ocsm/dpdk/.
  6. Run the following commands as a root user:
     source /opt/oracle/ocsm/ocsm_env.sh
    /opt/oracle/ocsm/usr/share/pld/rat/configure_dpdk.py
  7. (Optional) To view all the available advanced options, run the following command:
    /opt/oracle/ocsm/usr/share/pld/rat/configure_dpdk.py -h
  8. Reboot the machine that hosts the probe or mediation engine and probe.