Installing and Configuring DPDK without Internet
DPDK can be installed and configured without an internet connection.
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Log into the
Platform Setup Application page:
- Select Capture Settings.
- Check the box in Monitoring column against each sniffing interface that you want to use for capturing the traffic.
- Log into the machine that hosts the probe or mediation engine and probe as a root user.
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(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
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Run the following
command:
yum install kernel-uek-devel-$(uname -r)
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Download the DPDK
tar file from
http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/refs/
into the folder
/var/cache/ocsm/dpdk/
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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
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(Optional) To view
all the available advanced options, run the following command:
/opt/oracle/ocsm/usr/share/pld/rat/configure_dpdk.py -h
- Reboot the machine that hosts the probe or mediation engine and probe.