1. Network Analytics Data Director Release Notes
  2. Feature Descriptions

2 Feature Descriptions

This chapter provides a summary of the features for Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director (OCNADD) release 22.0.0.

OCNADD release 22.0.0 provides the following features:

  • Helm-based Installation: OCNADD supports helm-based installation on the OCCNE and TANZU platforms through a clear sequence of procedures. For information on OCNADD installation and uninstallation procedures, see Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director Installation Guide.
  • Data Aggregation: OCNADD collects and aggregates network traffic from multiple NFs (for example, SCP 1 & 2 and SEPP, and NRF) and provides the aggregated traffic feed to one or many third-party monitoring tools. The aggregation rules can be configured during the third-party application configuration using OCNADD GUI. For more information on data aggregation, see Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.
  • Secure Transport: OCNADD provides secure data communication between producer NFs and third-party consumer applications. The incoming data streaming towards OCNADD and outgoing data streaming towards third-party applications are TLS encrypted. The TLS can be disabled and enabled for the third-party applications using the configuration feature via OCNADD GUI. For more information, see Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.
  • Graphical User Interface: OCNADD provides a rich set of insights in the form of operational dashboards that provide visualization for various metrics, KPIs, and alarms. Also, OCNADD provides an intuitive and simple workflow-based GUI to configure the third-party application feed. For more information on OCNADD GUI, see Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.
  • Health monitoring: OCNADD monitors readiness and liveliness of each service with its instances and provides an immediate alert about any malfunction. For example, MAX number of replica for service has been instantiated, Particular service is in down state, or Max number of CPU/MEMORY threshold has been reached. OCNADD also provides a health report of each service, which can be requested on demand or periodically in the OCNADD dashboard. For more information, see Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.
  • High Availability: OCNADD supports microservice based architecture and OCNADD instances are deployed in Cloud Native Environments (CNEs) that ensures high availability of services and auto scaling based on resource utilization. For more information, see Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.
  • Metrics, KPIs, and Alerts: OCNADD provides a rich set of metrics, KPIs, and threshold alerts that are integrated with the Prometheus. A few critical KPIs are also integrated with the operational dashboard provided by the OCNADD GUI service. A few of the important KPIs and Alerts are Ingress MPS, Egress MPS, Latency between producer NF and OCNADD, and Failure Alerts. For more information, see Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.
  • Backup and Restore: OCNADD provides backup and restore procedures for disaster recovery. Operators can take an OCNADD site or a namespace specific database and required Kubernetes resources for backup to restore on the same or a different Kubernetes cluster. The backup and restore procedures are helpful in disaster recovery, cluster migration, setup replication from production to development or staging, and cluster upgrade to new OCCNE version or Kubernetes version. For more information, see Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director Backup and Disaster Recovery Guide.