4.4.2.3. Architecture

The NDC module is made up of two components called CORE and ANALYTICS.

  • ON CORE: Implements an administration portal from which it manages the rule engine and its CMDB. Provides a Rest API.

  • ON ANALYTICS: This is a reporting tool that integrates all the solution’s logs and provides dashboards and a search engine.

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4.4.2.3.1. Components

The different components used for Network Device Compliance at ON Core are:

  • Cron: Cron is the service that is responsible for managing the execution of processes. In the Network Device Compliance module, cron is responsible for executing the Compliance tests that have been programmed in the ON NetBackup scheduler.

  • SQL: SQL database to store the NDC scheduled tasks.

  • NetBackup: This is the module that contains the backup and compliance functionalities of the network devices. The processes it executes (backup or compliance) can be previously scheduled so that they start automatically in a defined period or date.

  • NetDevCompliance: This submodule integrated into NetBackup is the one in charge of carrying out the tests on all the network devices that have been defined in the scheduler. During this process all the test groups, their tests and the rules of these tests will be executed in each of the devices.

  • Filebeat: Filebeat will allow us to send all the logs that have been generated during the execution of the Network Device Compliance in the Core to the Analytics Logstash service so that they are processed (Logstash), stored (Elasticsearch) and displayed to the user (Kibana).

The different components used for Network Device Compliance at ON Analytics are:

  • Logstash: This tool will allow us to collect and process the data we receive from the Core through Filebeats. In Logstash, the data is filtered and shaped and then sent to Elasticsearch.

  • Elasticsearch: When the data has been modeled with Logstash, it reaches Elasticsearch where it is indexed and stored so that the user can execute queries and Kibana can generate the dashboards from this data.

  • Kibana: Kibana will generate the dashboards with different types of charts and tables from the data it extracts from Elasticsearch.