What is Unified Assurance?

Introduction

Unified Assurance enables you to manage services on a single platform: this includes silo'd tools that run across varied and hybrid networks to ensure availability of communications, information, and product offerings.

Unified Assurance enables:

• Consolidation and management of legacy tools.

• Visibility and control of end-to-end services.

• Operationalize network functions virtualization (NfV) for production.

• Automation of redundant and repetitive Service Management tasks.

• Consolidation of data to a single source of truth.

Unified Assurance brings together fault, performance, topology and service level management in a single scalable software platform. This unification provides significant performance, scalability and cost advantages over legacy and silo tool sets, resulting in an improved user experience.

Unified Assurance Hyperscale Architecture

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What's New in the Architecture

In this section we will detail what's new in Unified Assurance.

• Rebranded from Assure1 to Oracle Communications Unified Assurance(OCUA). This includes logos, product name, etc.

• Replaced competitor products with Oracle products:

  • MySQL EE replaced MariaDB.

  • Oracle Java SE replaced OpenJDK.

• Removed licensing built into the product.

• Update 20+ third party vendor packages.

A Deeper Dive

This section takes a look at the respective four areas of Fault Management, Performance Management, Topology Architecture, and finally Configuration Management. The technologies mentioned in the first section will be placed in the context of the Low-Latency Information Stack.

Unified Assurance Fault Architecture

• The Presentation Layer consists of: Event Lists, Dashboards, Diagrams, and Analytics.

• The Unified Assurance Cognitive Engine (UACE) Processing Layer consists of the SLM Engine, Watcher, CAPE, RCA, Mechanizations, Analytics Ingestor, Ticket Connector, and Machine Learning.

• The Oracle Communications InfoLake takes data from the UACE Processing Layer and the Collection Layer. The Oracle Communications InfoLake consists of:

  • Real Time Events.

  • Event Analytics using ElasticSearch.

• The following list shows the two sets of elements in the Collection Layer. The first set of elements takes data from the network, conversely the second set of elements sends data to the network:

  • FIFO, PIPE, SMTP, Syslog, TCPServer, Trap, and WebHook.

  • Generic Agent, Generic Connector, Generic DB, eMail, TCP Clients, and TL1.

Unified Assurance Performance Management Architecture

• The Presentation Layer consists of: Metric Overview & Charts, Dashboards, Diagrams, and Analytics.

• The Unified Assurance Cognitive Engine (UACE) Processing Layer consists of Post Calculations, SLM Engine, Standard Threshold Engine, Trend Threshold Engine, Abnormal Threshold Engine, and the Missing Data Threshold Engine.

• The Oracle Communications InfoLake takes data from the UACE Processing Layer and the Collection Layer. The Oracle Communications InfoLake consists of the Metrics Database powered by InfluxDB.

• The following list shows the three sets of elements in the Collection Layer. The first and second sets of elements sends data to the network, conversely the third set of elements takes data from the network:

  • Custom Poll Discovery, PIPE Discovery, Discovery Agent, Device Discovery, SNMP Discovery, and SNMP Interfaces.

  • Ping Poller, Generic Poller, Generic DB, SNMP Poller, Network IF Poller, TCP Client Poller and the Transaction Poller.

  • File and TCP Servers.

Unified Assurance Topology Architecture

• The Presentation Layer consists of: Network Details, Dashboards, Diagrams and Analytics.

• The Unified Assurance Cognitive Engine (UACE) Processing Layer consists of Graph Stitchers and RCA.

• The Oracle Communications InfoLake takes data from the UACE Processing Layer and the Collection Layer. The Oracle Communications InfoLake consists of the Topology Database powered by Neo4j.

• The following list shows the two sets of elements in the Collection Layer. The first set of elements sends data to the network, conversely the second set of elements takes data from the network:

  • Gather Network Inventory, Database Stitcher, TCP Client Stitcher, Subversion Stitcher.

  • File Stitcher and TCP Server Stitcher.

Unified Assurance Configuration Management Architecture

• The Presentation Layer consists of: Dashboards, Diffs and History.

• The Oracle Communications InfoLake uses Config DB.

• The following elements in the Collection Layer interface with your network, Configuration Discovery and Gather Configurations (e.g. SSH and Telnet).

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