Open Network Telemetry Platform

Real Time Network Metric Reporting

ONTP suite of tools allows you to Capture, Store, Analyze, and Alert based on Network Metric Data.

Network Metrics for use in real time alert response dashboards and applications. Allow your enterprise to utilize and respond to network incidents with more knowledge and insights.

Create detailed dashboards to track your services and their dependencies.

Use Cases:

1. Application Performance Monitoring

2. Security Monitoring

3. Service Availability Notifications

4. Network Analysis

5. Graphing/Visualizations

6. Machine Learning - network data for ML applications

Network performance visibility base platform.

There are 2 methods that are supported to capture/store/view network metric data.

1. ONTP Real Time Platform solutions.

2. Kafka faq / Splunk doc Solutions

ONTP Real Time Platform consists of 3 main software components:

ontp-wire	metric decoder	1 per node
ontp-mbus	metric msg bus	X per instance
ontp-tsdb ontp-tsdb-ml	metric storage	X per instance

• Example Dashboard Views

Splunk

Grafana

Guide

Contents:

• 1. Network Capture
  • 1.1. Metrics Capture
    • 1.1.1. Supports decoding of L1..L7 Network Metrics:
    • 1.1.2. Launch With Docker
    • 1.1.3. Deployment Options
    • 1.1.4. Example docker run
    • 1.1.5. Agent Configuration Details:
    • 1.1.6. Exclude Data From Collection:
    • 1.1.7. Decrypt traffic
    • 1.1.8. Default Preferences File Configuration
    • 1.1.9. Additional Docummentation
• 2. Metrics Message Bus
  • 2.1. Network Metrics Message Bus Tooling
    • 2.1.1. Select the method on how to write data to the metric database.
    • 2.1.2. Request a license
    • 2.1.3. Launch With Docker
    • 2.1.4. Example docker run command
    • 2.1.5. Deployment Options
    • 2.1.6. Configuration File Example
    • 2.1.7. Notes::
    • 2.1.8. Misc:
• 3. Metrics Database
  • 3.1. Network Metrics Database Tooling
    • 3.1.1. Two Database Flavors:
    • 3.1.2. Launch With Docker
    • 3.1.3. Deployment Options
    • 3.1.4. ontp-tsdb Example Cluster Configuration Start
    • 3.1.5. Start Access Node Script - Please Modify for your env
    • 3.1.6. Start Data Node Script - Please Modify for your env
    • 3.1.7. ontp-tsdb Example Single Node Configuration Start Script
    • 3.1.8. ontp-tsdb-ml Example Cluster Configuration Start
    • 3.1.9. ontp-tsdb-ml Example Single Node Configuration Start Script
• 4. Visualization Solutions
  • 4.1. Network Metrics Visualization Solutions
    • 4.1.1. Setup Notes
    • 4.1.2. Dashboards Examples Views
• 5. Deployment Guide
  • 5.1. ONTP Deployment Guide
    • 5.1.1. ONTP Real Time Platform
    • 5.1.2. Kafka/Splunk Stack
    • 5.1.3. Kafka / splunk Docker compose
    • 5.1.4. Splunk Defaults Yaml Configuration
• 6. ontp-wire config
  • 6.1. Network Metrics Capture Configuration
    • 6.1.1. Configuration File Example
    • 6.1.2. Capture Configuration File Sections
• 7. ontp-mbus config
  • 7.1. Metrics Bus Configuration
    • 7.1.1. Configuration File Example
    • 7.1.2. Recommended Deployments
• 8. ontp-tsdb config
  • 8.1. Metric Database Configuration
    • 8.1.1. Basic Variables Shared Across Config Types
    • 8.1.2. Cluster Access Node Variables
    • 8.1.3. Cluster Data Node Variables
    • 8.1.4. Small Configuration
    • 8.1.5. Medium Configuration
    • 8.1.6. Large Configuration
    • 8.1.7. Distrubuted Database Configuration
• 9. Request ONTP Licenses
  • 9.1. Network Metrics License Request
    • 9.1.1. Contact Us
• 10. SSL Certificate HowTo
  • 10.1. SSL Certificate Guide
    • 10.1.1. Example using signcerts.sh
    • 10.1.2. Example output after signcerts.sh execution
    • 10.1.3. signcerts.sh script
    • 10.1.4. OpenSSL example configuration file
• 11. ONTP tshark Default Preferences File
  • 11.1. Network Metrics Collection Configuration
    • 11.1.1. ONTP Default tshark preferences:
• 12. FAQ’s
  • 12.1. ONTP Capture FAQ
    • 12.1.1. How To Capture On Multiple Network Interfaces
    • 12.1.2. Firewall Ports Access
    • 12.1.3. How To Exclude Traffic From Capture
    • 12.1.4. Protocol Decoder
    • 12.1.5. Protocols Capable of being decoded
    • 12.1.6. Specifying which Protocols to decoded
    • 12.1.7. Port Mapping
    • 12.1.8. Override Prefs
    • 12.1.9. Disable Name Resolution
    • 12.1.10. Name Resolving Flags
    • 12.1.11. configuring the tshark agent
    • 12.1.12. Capture CPU usage restrictions
    • 12.1.13. Limiting with cgroups
    • 12.1.14. Monit application monitoring config
    • 12.1.15. remove_from_metric semantics
    • 12.1.16. Why exclude binary data from collection.
    • 12.1.17. host_unitid limitations
    • 12.1.18. metric_normalize semantics
    • 12.1.19. Optimal Number of io_threads
    • 12.1.20. Optimal Number of msg_threads
    • 12.1.21. Optimal Number of ssl_threads
    • 12.1.22. Userid that the tooling executes as
    • 12.1.23. Tool Restart Recommendations
  • 12.2. ONTP Message Bus FAQ
    • 12.2.1. db_write_mode Recommendations
    • 12.2.2. db_raw_write
    • 12.2.3. db_bulk_write_threshold Recommendations
    • 12.2.4. Deployment Options
    • 12.2.5. Firewall Ports Access
    • 12.2.6. Allowed certificate thumbprints
    • 12.2.7. runtime_worker_threads
    • 12.2.8. runtime_worker_blocking_threads
    • 12.2.9. max_metric_length
    • 12.2.10. Userid that the tooling executes as
    • 12.2.11. Tool Restart Recommendations
• 13. Kafka Integration FAQ
  • 13.1. Exporting data to kafka
  • 13.2. ontp-wire Export to Kafka
    • 13.2.1. Add Kafaka configuration to the Agent:
  • 13.3. ontp-mbus Export to Kafka
    • 13.3.1. Add Kafaka configuration to the ONTP Message bus agent:
• 14. Using Splunk for Visualization
  • 14.1. Network Metrics Visualization Solutions
    • 14.1.1. Splunk
    • 14.1.2. Query To pull metrics by sourcetype
    • 14.1.3. Setup Notes
    • 14.1.4. Dashboards Example Views