04. Online Interface Agents PE 4
- Sandra Dusic
Optional online interfaces for message based collection and distribution.
 OP = On-premise, CS= Cloud Service
General Availability
Package | Type | Included in Subscription base license | Release | Description |
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AMQP Collection | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Collects messages from Rabbit Message Queues using the AMQ (Advanced Message Queueing) Protocol. A list of brokers to collect from can be configured for each agent. Optionally, TLS can be enabled. Â Reference: |
APL plugin Kusto databases | Both | Y | 4.2.0 | Functions for performing lookups in Kusto databases. |
Amazon S3 Collection Realtime | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Â |
Amazon S3 Forwarding Realtime | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Â |
Diameter | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | The Diameter agents enable a workflow to act as a Diameter server, a Diameter client, or as a Diameter Proxy agent, by applying the Diameter Base Protocol. Supports TCP and SCTP as transport protocols over IPv4 and IPv6. Import and export of AVP and Command specifications supports two formats: ABNF (Augmented Backus-Naur Format) and XML (eXtensible Markup Language). Reference:
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Disk Collection Realtime | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Continuously scans and collects files from local disk. Uses the Standard File Collection Functions and File Collection Functions Available for Realtime Only. Based on the Batch Disk Collection Agent. Please refer to that package for more information. |
Disk Forwarding Realtime | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Forwards files to local disk according to configured file closure criteria. Based on the Batch Disk Forwarding Agent. Please refer to that package for more information. |
FTP Collection Realtime | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Continuously scans and collects files from remote file system using the standard FTP (RFC 959) protocol. Uses the Standard File Collection Functions and File Collection Functions Available for Realtime Only. Based on the Batch FTP Collection Agent. Please refer to that package for more information. |
FTP Forwarding Realtime | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Forwards files to remote file system using the standard FTP (RFC 959) protocol. Uses the Standard File Forwarding Functions and File Forwarding Functions Available for Realtime Only. Based on the Batch FTP Forwarding Agent. Please refer to that package for more information. |
Firebase FCM Fwd | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Enables push notifications to be sent to mobile devices using Firebase Cloud Messaging. Reference:
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GCP PubSub | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Enables Google Cloud Platform integration. Consists of:
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GTP' | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Collects charging messages and datagrams from GSM agents (SGSN and GGSN) using the GPRS Tunneling protocol, via TCP or UDP. The agent can optionally check for duplicates and sequence numbers, and a configurable number of nodes to collect from can be defined. To assure that data is transmitted properly, a subsequent Analysis or Aggregation agent can be configured to send acknowledgement to the collection agent. References:
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HTTP2 Client Agent | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Enables a workflow to communicate requests to HTTP/2 servers. Supports both HTTP/1 and HTTP/2. |
HTTP2 Server Agent | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Enables a workflow to act as an HTTP/2 Server. Supports both HTTP/1 and HTTP/2. References:
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IBM MQ | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Acts as a client to an IBM Websphere MQ Queue Manager. Collects messages from a configurable number of message queues, topics or durable subscriptions. Reference:
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IPDR/SP | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Collects IP based service usage information, performance and usage measurement records (IPDRs) using the IPDR streaming protocol. A list of sources to collect from can be configured in the GUI, or through a file. Reference: |
JMS | Online | N | 4.2.0 | JMS 1.1 interface agents:
The following JMS vendors are currently supported:
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Kafka Agents | Â | Â | Â | Moved to System Extensions and consists of two parts - legacy and new reworked version. |
LDAP Agent | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | A processing agent acting as a client to LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ) Servers. A list of servers to connect to can be configured, in either round robin or failover mode. In additions to standard authentication using security credentials, TLS - with or without keys - can be enabled. Supported operations:
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MQTT Client | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Collects data from MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) servers using the TCP/IP protocol. A list of brokers can be configured, as well as a list of topics to subscribe to. TLS can be enabled. Reference: |
MSMQ | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Collection Processing Reference: |
Netflow | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Collects traffic data from one or several Cisco routers.  Support Netflow versions 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10. The agent binds on a specific port and IP address, and can be configured to only include predefined hosts. Routers using more than one interface IP address are configured to have a main IP address. Warnings on sequence gaps can be enabled.  Reference:
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Open API Profile | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | The Profile enables definition of Open API specifications, that can be used with the HTTP/2 agents. Direct import from the UI is possible. Additional files defined by the specification will automatically be included. |
Prometheus Forwarding Agent | Both | Y | 4.2.0 | Enables publishing of metrics in a format that can be scraped by a Prometheus instance. The Prometheus Filter UI allows configuration of which metrics to expose for scraping. This package replaces the System Insight package. Note that the Prometheus Agent can accept System Insight UDRs as input, making it easy to update System Insight workflows to Prometheus workflows. |
Python Connector | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Enables test and exploration of workflows using an external exploration tool, for instance Jupyter Notebook. Gives the exploration tool access to all the UDRs, routes, APL functions etc that are part of the workflow. Supports interactive mode. |
Python Realtime Collection | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Python Realtime Collection Agent. |
Python Realtime Processing | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Enables processing using Python, as an alternative to APL. Includes the possibility to define several different interpreters and working directories using the Interpreter Profile. |
Radius | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Server Client Reference:
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SCP Collection | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Continuously scans and collects files from remote file system using the SCP protocol over SSH2. Uses the Standard File Collection Functions and File Collection Functions Available for Realtime Only. For transaction safety reasons, the collection agent needs to be followed by an Analysis or Aggregation agent, as each file received needs to be acknowledged with a reply to the collection agent. Based on the Batch SCP Collection Agent. Please refer to that package for more information. |
SCP Forwarding | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Forwards files to remote file system using the SCP protocol over SSH2. Uses the Standard File Forwarding Functions and File Forwarding Functions Available for Realtime Only. Based on the Batch SCP Forwarding Agent. Please refer to that package for more information. |
SFTP Collection Realtime | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Continuously scans and collects files from remote file system using the SFTP protocol over SSH2.  Uses the Standard File Collection Functions and File Collection Functions Available for Realtime Only. For transaction safety reasons, the collection agent needs to be followed by an Analysis or Aggregation agent, as each file received needs to be acknowledged with a reply to the collection agent. Based on the Batch SFTP Collection Agent. Please refer to that package for more information. |
SFTP Forwarding Realtime | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Forwards files to remote file system using the SFTP protocol over SSH2. Uses the Standard File Forwarding Functions and File Forwarding Functions Available for Realtime Only. Based on the Batch SFTP Forwarding Agent. Please refer to that package for more information. |
SMPP Receiver | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Collects messages from SMSC (Short Message Service Center) and ESME (External Short Message Entity) using the SMPP (Short Message Peer to Peer) protocol. The configuration consists of connection details to the SMSC and ESME. Reference: |
SMPP Transmitter | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Forwards messages to SMSC (Short Message Service Center) and ESME (External Short Message Entity) using the SMPP (Short Message Peer to Peer) protocol. The configuration consists of connection details to the SMSC and ESME. Reference: |
SQL Realtime Forwarding | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Inserts UDR data into a database table according to configurable definitions of mapping between UDR fields and database table columns. Also, tables can be populated with MIM values using SQL statements or stored procedures. Commit frequency, queue sizes and exception handling is configurable. |
Salesforce | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | A processing agent for real-time workflow configurations that subscribes to Salesforce topics and receive messages. |
Streaming Telemetry | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Streaming Telemetry is used to retrieve network performance data (OSS data) from routers through streaming. The Streaming Telemetry agent supports gNMI (gRPC Network Management Interface) and JTI (Juniper Telemetry Interface). |
Syslog Collection | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Supports IPv4 and IPv6. Compliant with the specifications RFC5424 and RFC3164 (used when RFC5424 is not applicable). Â |
TCP/IP Collection | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Collects data via the standard TCP/IP protocol. Supports IPv4 and IPv6. Binds on a configurable port and allows multiple connections. Optionally, responses can be sent back (configured using the Analysis or Aggregation Agent). The agent has built-in support for decoding of data (configured using the Ultra Profile). |
TCP/IP Forwarding | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Forwards data via the standard TCP/IP protocol. Supports IPv4 and IPv6. Binds on a configurable port and allows multiple connections. Optionally, responses can be collected and processed by the workflow. All handling of responses is configured using Analysis or Aggregation agents. Contains configurable parameters for optimizing performance. |
UDP | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Complies with the UDP protocol, RFC 768. Supports IPv4 and IPv6. Binds on a configurable port and allows multiple connections. Optionally, responses can be sent back (configured using the Analysis or Aggregation Agent). The agent has built-in support for decoding of data (configured using the Ultra Profile). |
Web Services | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Web Service agents communicate through SOAP in XML syntax, and use WSDL files. Server/Collection Client/Processing Web Services agents support:
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Websocket | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Enables collection and forwarding of binary data and/or text frames from and to external web socket servers and clients. WebSocket is a protocol that enables bidirectional communication over a single TCP connection. References
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Limited Availability
Package | Type | Included in Subscription base license | Release | Description |
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5G Support | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Enables 5G support for HTTP/2 Agents. |
Amazon SQS Agents | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Â |
Azure Event Hub Agent | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Azure Event Hub consumer (collector) and producer (forwarding) agents. Authentication methods can be any of connection string, secret key or certificate. |
KPI Management | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Enables generation of metrics for configurable groups of data. Supports creation of models for any number of hierarchies and metrics. The metrics are produced in configurable time intervals. |
KPI Mangement in Memory | Online | Y | 4.2.0 | Enables KPI generation using an in-memory processing agent. |
SAP CC Agent for Notification | Online | N | 4.2.0 | Collection notifications from the SAP Convergent Charging Core Server via the SAP CC Notification Client. |
SAP CC Batch Agent for Charging | Online | N | 4.2.0 | Forwards batches to SAP CC batch charging interface. Supports versions 3, 4 and 5. |
SAP CC Forwarding Agent for Charging | Online | N | 4.2.0 | Forwards data to SAP CC charging interface. Supports versions 3, 4 and 5. |
SAP JCo Uploader | Online | N | 4.2.0 | The SAP JCo Uploader agent is a batch fowarding agent, which sends records to SAP Convergent Invoicing (SAP CI) using the JCo protocol. |
SAP RFC Processor | Online | N | 4.2.0 | Real-Time Processing Agent used for communication between SAP systems, via the SAP RFC (Remote Function Call) interface. The SAP RFC Processor agent supports SAP JCo Release 3.0. |
File Collection Functions Available for Realtime Only
Category | Description |
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Decoder | The agent has built-in decoder, and thus no Decoder agent is needed in the workflow. |
Decompression | Defines if files are compressed. |
Execution | Defines how often to scan for new input, how to handle formatting errors, and when to abort the workflow. |
File Forwarding Functions Available for Realtime Only
Category | Description |
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File Closing Criteria | Defines if file closure shall be based on number of bytes, number of UDRs, or time. |