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Advanced Traffic Collection Installation and Setup
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Table of Contents
1. Overview................................................................................................................................................5
2. About This Issue ....................................................................................................................................5
3. Advanced Reporting System with Advanced Traffic Collection Setup Overview................................5
4. Advanced Reporting System Licensing Overview ................................................................................6
5. Prepare and Install or Upgrade the Advanced Traffic Collector ...........................................................6
5.1 Overview....................................................................................................................................6
5.2 Advanced Traffic Collector Hardware Partitioning...................................................................7
5.2.1 Minimum Configuration Option ....................................................................................8
5.2.2 Standard Configuration Option......................................................................................8
5.2.3 Ideal Configuration Option ............................................................................................9
5.3 Optimize Disk Layout for the Advanced Traffic Collector .......................................................9
5.4 Installing or Upgrading the Advanced Traffic Collector Server ...............................................9
5.5 Install Oracle and StatsCollector on the Advanced Traffic Collector Server ..........................10
5.5.1 Required Solaris Patches for Oracle ............................................................................10
5.5.2 Required Solaris Packages for Oracle..........................................................................11
5.5.3 Install Optional External Package SMCtop .................................................................12
5.5.4 Install Oracle................................................................................................................12
5.6 Install or Upgrade the StatsCollector Software .......................................................................13
5.7 Prepare the EMS Server for ARS with ATC ...........................................................................21
5.8 Set Reporting Switch Properties ..............................................................................................22
5.9 Set the PlexView Server Oracle Database to support Advanced Reporting............................24
6. Edit the List of Switches Reporting to StatsCollector .........................................................................25
7. Advanced Reporting System Installation.............................................................................................25
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1. Overview
This document is a step-by-step guide to installing or upgrading the PlexView
Advanced Traffic Collection Software.
Note: If you are installing the Advanced Reporting System without the
optional Advanced Traffic Collector, you do not need this procedure.
• Having the EMS and the Advanced Traffic Collector on the same subnet
assures optimum system performance for inter-machine communication
• Having the Business Objects client on the same subnet as the EMS assures
best performance when exporting a universe or creating and executing
reports
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You must know the name of each switch that the Advanced Traffic Collector
will collect statistics on prior to running the StatsCollector software
installation. The name must be identical to the switch’s SID name as
displayed in the status bar of the EMS Navigator.
The Advanced Traffic Collector application runs on its own Sun server and
has its own database. The traffic collector does not depend on the EMS in any
way. The EMS depends on the advanced traffic collector for traffic statistics
and will establish an ODBC connection to the advanced traffic collector
server to access traffic data. The PlexView Advanced Traffic Collector
software provides the StatsCollector database and the StatsCollector
application for the Advanced Traffic Collector server.
Note: The ATC (Advanced Traffic Collector) requires that a switch report
billing and traffic information to the TCA (Traffic Collection
Application) software. That TCA application, part of the BTS (Billing
and Traffic System), must be configured and running for the ATC to
collect traffic statistics.
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Note: The server that will be the Advanced Traffic Collector must not have
any prior versions of Oracle on it. If it does, Oracle must be
COMPLETELY uninstalled before installing the PlexView Advanced
Traffic Collection software. Verify that all Oracle files in /var are
removed as well. Failure to completely uninstall Oracle can produce
undesirable results.
The Advanced Traffic Collector server has three hardware partitioning options
listed in the Advanced Reporting System Software Release Notice. The three
options are:
• Minimum configuration
• Standard configuration
• Ideal configuration
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Use one 36G hard drive or two 36G hard drives with one drive acting as a
mirror. The operating system (OS) and Oracle database reside on the same
physical disk partition, but this degrades performance.
swap-l
df-k
Set up these partition parameters:
• Swap 2 GB
• / 4 GB
• /usr 4 GB
• /opt Allocate the remaining space
Note: The same configuration applies whether the dual server disk is mirrored
by Sun Solstice or by Veritas Volume Manager.
Note: If mirroring is not used, the system should be periodically backed up, so
that the data can be recovered if the disk fails.
Use two 36G hard drives. To improve performance, put the operating system
and the Oracle database on separate physical disk partitions.
• Swap 2 GB
• / 4 GB
• /usr 4 GB
• /opt Allocate the remaining space
• /opt/PlexView/Oracle/ora02 36 GB
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Use Two 36G hard drives with one drive acting as a mirror and use a RAID
Level 5 device for data read/write. Putting the operating system and Oracle on
separate physical disk partitions on the active drive and putting the Oracle
data on a RAID device eliminates the need for periodic backups.
• Swap 2 GB
• / 4 GB
• /usr 4 GB
• /opt Allocate the remaining space
• Mount as /opt/PlexView/Oracle/ora02
The Advanced Traffic Collector can process high-volume traffic data if you
optimize its physical database layout. System performance will improve if you
add additional physical disk drives and map them to the Oracle data
directories. Lucent recommends that each directory map to a separate disk.
/opt/PlexView/Oracle/ora02/oradata/statsdw/data
/opt/PlexView/Oracle/ora02/oradata/statsdw/system
/opt/PlexView/Oracle/ora02/oradata/statsdw/rbs
/opt/PlexView/Oracle/ora02/oradata/statsdw/index
/opt/PlexView/Oracle/ora02/oradata/statsdw/redo
5.4 Installing or Upgrading the Advanced Traffic Collector Server
If you are installing the Advanced Reporting Traffic Collection Stats Collector
Install CD for the first time, use the Install section 5.5 then skip to section 1.1.
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5.5 Install Oracle and StatsCollector on the Advanced Traffic Collector Server
For a new installation, you must first install Oracle, and then install the
Advanced Traffic Collector software.
Caution: Using the install files to perform an upgrade will result in the loss of
all data in the StatsCollector’s Oracle database. To preserve existing
data, use the upgrade procedure.
This section contains the installation procedure for the Oracle 8.1.7.4
software. Use the provided instance of Oracle.
Note: Using a different instance of Oracle than the one provided with your
PlexView software voids your customer support agreement.
Note: This procedure is not required when the Oracle database is already
present on the machine.
Solaris 8 requires:
The J2SE patch cluster for Solaris 8 contains the following files:
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Solaris 9 requires:
Note: The patch versions shown are minimum versions. Higher versions of
the same patches are also supported.
These packages are additional options to the basic OS installation and are
required for the software to operate properly.
• i. SUNWarc
• ii. SUNWbtool
• iii. SUNWhea
• iv. SUNWlibm
• v. SUNWlibms
• vi. SUNWsprot
• vii. SUNWsprox
• viii.SUNWtoo
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• ix. SUNWi1of
• x. SUNWi1cs
• xi. SUNWi15cs
• xii. SUNWxwfnt
If a package is not installed, then install it. See your operating system or
software documentation for information about installing packages.
A "top" package populates the trace health file. Download and install the
SMCtop package.
Oracle 8.1.7.4 is bundled into the Oracle database software provided with
your software.
1. Login as root.
Select only the database instance that supports the software you are installing.
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6. The installation script will check for the Solaris patches and packages
listed in the requirement above. If any of these patches or packages are not
present, the system will prompt for their installation.
7. During the installation, the system will prompt for a reboot if it modified
the kernel parameters. If prompted, reboot the system. After the reboot, go
back to Step 1 of this procedure and perform this procedure again.
When finished, the script will display that the install has completed
successfully. 0.
The procedure for installing or upgrading the software is exactly the same. 1.1
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3. Type ./Stats.bin.
4. Click the Next button to proceed with the installation. The license
agreement screen will appear as shown in the following figure.
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5. Click the Next button. The terms of the license agreement are displayed as
shown in the following figure.
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6. To accept the terms of the license agreement, click the Next button. The
path screen is displayed as shown in the following figure.
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Use Server’s
Hostname
10. Change or Accept the values for the installation above and click Next.
Note: The switch names in the List of Switches field must be identical to the
switch’s SID name as displayed in the status bar of the EMS Navigator.
Note: See the description in the EMS installation procedure titled PlexView
Server Installation with a NAT’d Firewall for more information about
using the server’s hostname.
The system will respond with a screen showing that the StatsCollector is being
configured. This will be followed by an Install Complete screen, as shown in
the following figure.
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11. Click the Done button when the Server installation is complete.
12. If required in your application, update the DNS (Domain Name Server)
that is local to the server to resolve the hostname and the IP address.
Note: For an upgrade being performed by an expert, you can avoid using X-
windows and instead, logged in as root, and using the menu driven
console method, enter:
# ./Stats.bin -i console
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There are three steps to be performed on the EMS to support the Advanced
Reporting System (ARS) with Advanced Traffic Collection (ATC).
This document includes the first two steps. The third step is covered in the
Advanced Reporting System Installation and Setup Guide. Loading
WebIntelligence is part of the standard Advanced Reporting System
installation.
• The location and name of each remote ATC server, or the IP address if no
Domain Name Server is set up
• The name of every switch that each ATC server will collect statistics on
You can use any PlexView client to configure the EMS to support advanced
reporting. All necessary information can be entered into the Add or Modify
switch dialogs.
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From a PlexView client, set the reporting switch properties in the EMS. This
must be done for every switch that will report through the Advanced
Reporting System.
1. From the PlexView client, highlight the switch you want to receive
Advanced Reporting data from, right-click it and select Modify.
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Note: The CPU Monitoring field may be under the Stats Configuration tab or
the Configuration tab, depending on the release of EMS software.
Note: If using the hostname, make sure that any DNS in your network can
resolve the hostname.
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Note: Lucent recommends not changing the Global Database Name from the
default of statsdw.telica.com.
Note: The Global Database Name, if not statsdw.telica.com must match the
database identifier in the tnsnames.ora file in the Oracle database.
4. Click Apply to save the settings or Ok to save the settings and exit. 0.
5.9 Set the PlexView Server Oracle Database to support Advanced Reporting
The Oracle database already installed in the EMS has a default number of
open_links=4. This number of links is insufficient to accept input from
multiple Advanced Traffic Collectors when creating report views and must be
changed. To change the maximum number of open links, perform the
following steps:
/opt/PlexView/Oracle/ora01/app/oracle/admin/
plxdb/pfile/<initplxdb.ora>
2. Open the file and find the number of open links. The default is
open_links=4. This default may not be present in some files.
3. Change the number to open_links=50, or if the default does not
exist, add the command to the file.
You have completed all tasks related to the installation or upgrading of the
Advanced Traffic Collection software.
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Note: This is not required. You should have entered the reporting switches
during installation. 0.
Note: Never terminate the StatsCollector software by using the kill command.
If you use the kill command, the StatsCollector threads could terminate
during database operations, producing undesirable results that include,
but are not limited to, performing lengthy database rollbacks.
Note: The switch name in the TSAA software in the Billing and Traffic
application and the switch names in the StatsCollector software in the
Advanced Traffic Collector must all be identical to the switch’s SID
name as displayed in the status bar of the EMS Navigator.
/opt/PlexView/Stats/CurrRel/Stats.sh start
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