Take into account the following behaviours behaviors when using the Aggregation profile:
- You can apply an Aggregation profile to any number of workflow configurations.
- Aggregation sessions created in the storage that is specified by the profile can be accessed by multiple active workflows simultaneously.
- When you have selected file storage and are using an Aggregation profile across several workflow configurations, you must consider the read-and-write lock mechanisms that are applied to the stored sessions. For further information about read-and-write locks, see Aggregation Agent Configuration - Batch and Aggregation Agent Configuration - Real-Time.
- The Aggregation profile is loaded when you start a workflow that depends on it. Changes to the profile become effective when you restart the workflow.
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The contents of the buttons in the menu bar may change depending on which configuration type has been opened in the currently active tab. The Aggregation profile uses the standard buttons that are visible for all configurations, and these are described in Build View.
Session Tab
In the Session tab you can browse and select a Session UDR Type and configure the Storage selection settings.
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UDR Types | Click on the Add button to select a UDR Type in the UDR Internal Format dialog. The selected UDR type will then appear in this field. Each UDR type may have a list of rules attached to it. Selecting the UDR type will display its rules as separate tabs to the right in the Aggregation profile configuration. | ||||||||||
Primary Expression | The Primary Expression is optional. Enter an APL code expression that is going to be evaluated before the ID Fields are evaluated. If the evaluation result is Use the | ||||||||||
ID Fields | Click on the Add button to select additional ID Fields in the ID Fields dialog. These fields, along with the Additional Expression settings , will enable the system to determine whether a UDR belongs to an existing session or not. If the contents of the selected fields match the contents of a session, and an Additional Expression evaluation results in
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Additional Expression | The Additional Expression is optional. Enter an APL code expression that is going to be evaluated along with the ID Fields. Use the The Additional Expression is useful when you have several UDR types with a varying number of ID Fields, that are about to be consolidated. Having several UDR types requires the ID fields to be equal in number and type. If one of the types requires additional fields that do not have any counterpart in the other type or types, these must be evaluated in the Additional Expression field. Save the field contents as a session variable, and compare the new UDRs with it. For an example, see Association - Radius UDRs in Aggregation Example - Association of IP Data.
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Create Session on Failure | Select this check box to create a new session if no matching session is found. If the check box is not selected, a new session will not be created when no matching session is found.
If the order of the input UDRs is not important, all the rules should have this check box checked. This means that the session object is going to be created regardless of the order in which the UDRs arrive. However, if the UDRs are expected to arrive in a particular sequence, Create Session on Failure must only be selected for the UDR type or field that is considered to be the master UDR, i e the UDR that marks the beginning of the sequence. In this case, all the slave UDR types or fields are targeted for error handling if they arrive before their master UDR.
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Add Rule | Click this button to add a new rule for the selected UDR Type. The rule will appear as a new folder to the right of the UDR Types in the Aggregation profile configuration. Usually, only one rule is required. However, in a situation where a session is based on an IP number, stored in either a target or source IP field, two rules are required. The source IP field can be listed in the ID Fields of the first rule and the target IP field listed in the ID Fields of the second rule. | ||||||||||
Remove Rule | Click this button to remove the currently displayed rule. |
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The Storage tab contains settings that are specific for File Storage, Couchbase, Redis, Elasticsearch, and SQL.
File Storage
The Aggregation profile configuration dialog - File Storage settings
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Storage Host | Select a Storage Host from the drop-down list. For storage of aggregation sessions select either a specific EC Group or Automatic. If you select Automatic, the same EC Group that has been used by the running workflow will be applied. Alternatively, if the Aggregation Session Inspector is used, a storage host is selected automatically. Refer to Aggregation Session Inspector for further information on the Aggregation Session Inspector.
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Directory | Enter the directory on the Storage Host where you want the aggregation data to be stored.
If this field is greyed out with a stated directory, it means that the directory path has been hard-coded using the
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Partial File Count | In this field, you can enter the maximum number of partial files that you want to store. Consider the following: Startup: All the files are read at startup. It takes longer if there are many partial files. Transaction commitment: When the transactions are committed, many small files (large Partial File Count) increase performance. In a batch workflow, use this variable to tune performance.
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Max Cached Sessions | Enter the maximum number of sessions to keep in the memory cache. This is a performance-tuning parameter that determines the memory usage of the Aggregation agent. Set this value to be low enough so that there is still enough space for the cache in memory, but not too low, as this will cause performance to deteriorate. For further information see the section below, Performance Tuning with File Storage. | ||||||||||||||
| Enable Separate Storage Per Workflow | This option enables each workflow to have a separate storage checked for duplicates. Multiple workflows are allowed to run simultaneously using the same Aggregation profile. However, if this checkbox is selected, a UDR in a workflow will not be checked against UDRs in a different workflow. |
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Sometimes, you may notice that file storage takes up more space than expected. This is expected behaviourbehavior. Read through this note for an overall understanding of the way file storage in Aggregation works. When session data is stored, it is appended to the session file. This means that old session data from the session file is still present in the storage and the current version is added to the file. Removal of old data is done only under certain conditions because otherwise, aggregation handling would be too slow. This is why file storage takes up more space than calculated with session number and single session object size. The session files on the disk grow up to a certain threshold ( 50MB by default) and then a new file is created and used. The old session file will be deleted when no more active sessions are stored in it. The accepted size of a session file can be adjusted by using aggregation.min_session_file_size parameter. For instance, aggregation.min_session_file_size=20000000 will set it to 20MB. This parameter is set with the mzsh topo command on EC, cell, or container level. Old files are removed during the storage commit. Also, since there is a possibility that there will be old session files present because of some long-lived sessions stored there, a defragmentation algorithm is implemented. It runs occasionally and moves those long-lived sessions to new session files so that old session files can be deleted. This is why aggregation storage takes up a lot of disk space. It is designed to provide higher performance at the expense of higher disk space consumption. |
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Profile | Select a Couchbase profile. This profile is used to access the primary storage for aggregation sessions. |
Mirror Profile | Selecting this Couchbase profile is optional. It is used to access a secondary storage, providing read-only access for aggregation sessions. Typically, the Mirror Profile is identically configured to a (primary) Profile, that is used by workflows on a different EC Group or Group or other |
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| Profile | Select an SQL profile. This profile is used to access the storage for aggregation sessions.
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| Table SQL Script | This text box will generate the SQL statements for the selected UDRs' table schema and indexes for Id, TxId. The schema will be generated based on the number of UDRs in the UDR Type Mapping table.
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