OPBNOS R2.5
Release
  • Open Packet Broker
  • What's New?
  • Getting Started
    • Licensing
    • Limitations
    • Image Management
      • Installing OPBNOS from ONIE
      • Installing OPBNOS from USB Drive
      • Image Upgrade from OPBNOS
      • Selecting OPBNOS on next boot
      • Removing available images
      • Rebooting the Switch
    • Supported HwSku
    • Scalability
    • Downloads
  • CLI Configuration Guide
    • Configuring License
    • Configuring Hostname
    • Configuring Username
    • On-Box FlowVision
    • Configuring AAA
      • Configuring AAA
      • Configuring TACACS
      • Configuring RADIUS
    • Interface Management
      • Configuring Management Interface
      • Configuring Physical Interface
    • Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
      • Enabling LLDP
      • Displaying LLDP Neighbors
    • Configuring Interface Description
    • Configuring Auto Negotiation
    • Configuring FEC
    • Configuring Maximum Transition Unit
    • Configuring Port Speed
    • Configuring Interface Type
    • Configuring VLAN Modes
    • Configuring Loopback Mode
    • Configuring Packet Slicing
    • Configuring Ingress VLAN
    • Configuring Egress Tagging
    • Configuring Tx-only
    • Configuring An-clause
    • Configuring PortChannel
    • Configuring LAG Hash
    • Configuring Flows and Rules
      • Configuring Network Ports
      • Configuring Tool Ports
      • Configuring Flows
      • Configuring Flow Description
      • Configuring Flow Rules (NVIDIA)
      • Configuring Flow Rules (Broadcom)
      • Configuring Flow Match Expression Rules
      • Configuring Flow UDF Rules
      • Configuring Push/Pop VLAN
      • Configuring Flow Override Action(s)
      • Display Flow Information
      • Clear Flow Counters
    • Configuring GTP Flow
    • Configuring VxLAN Flow
    • Configuring SNMP
      • Configure SNMP community
      • Configuring SNMP Trap
      • Configuring SNMP Threshold
      • Configuring SNMP User
      • Configuring SNMP Location
      • Configuring SNMP Contact
    • Configuring SYSLOG
    • Ping
    • Traceroute
    • Configuring NTP
    • Configuring Timezone
    • Configuring sFlow
    • Display Interface Information
      • Front Panel Port Mapping
    • Display System Information
      • Interface Transceiver Information
      • System Uptime
      • Reboot Cause
      • Show Environment
      • Show System Memory
      • Show Docker Memory
      • Show Services
      • Show Platform Fan
      • Show platform pcieinfo
      • Show Platform PSU
      • Show Platform SSD
      • Show Platform Summary
      • Show Platform Syseeprom
      • Show Platform Temperature
    • Configuration Management
      • Copying Files To Device
      • Copying Files From Device
      • Copying Running and Startup Configuration
      • Saving Configuration
      • Display Configuration
      • Clearing Startup configuration
    • Zero Touch Provisioning
      • DHCP Discovery
      • ZTP Boot File
      • Enable ZTP
    • Troubleshooting
  • Aviz FlowVision Graphical User Interface Guide
    • FlowVision Controller Installation
      • FV ESXi Host Installation
      • FV VirtualBox Installation
    • System
      • Viewing the Dashboard
      • Accessing System and Device Information
      • Managing Topologies
      • Managing Devices
      • Viewing System Log
      • Managing Users
      • Performing Backup and Restore
      • Viewing Audit Logs
    • Configuration
      • Configuring Ports
      • Configuring Port Groups
      • Configuring Rule Templates
      • Configuring Flows
    • Statistics
      • Viewing Port Statistics
      • Viewing Flow Statistics
    • Help
  • REST API Guide
    • FLOW
    • Interface Management
    • Port Channel
    • LLDP
    • SNMP
    • System and Platform
    • Statistics
  • Use Cases
    • For Engineers
      • VxLAN Deployment (NVIDIA)
      • GTP Deployment
      • Truncation and Load Balancing
      • Ingress VLAN and Egress Tagging
      • Loopback-mode Port
      • VLAN Mode/Tag Actions
    • Command Reference
      • Converting Network-to-Tool port
      • Configuring 1G Electrical SFP
      • Enabling FlowVision On-box Support
  • Solution Integration
    • Network Visibility and Analysis with OPB, Arkime, Elasticsearch & Kibana
      • Installation Pre-Requisites
      • Solution Components
      • Configuring OPBNOS
      • Installing Arkime
      • Installing Kibana
      • Troubleshooting
  • Support
    • How to contact Aviz Networks Support?
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Solution Components

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Components

Open Network Operating System

  • Filter, Replicate and Load Balance: OPBNOS provides the basic functionalities of any packet broker on commodity ASICs including filtering based on L2/L3/L4 headers, replicating traffic with unique identification and providing symmetric load balancing.

  • Deep Inspection, Truncate, Tunnel: Advance functions including user-defined offset-based inspection of tunnelled packets (IP-in-IP, VXLAN, MPLS, GRE), forward monitored traffic across data centres using IP underlay. One of the unique value-added features includes the truncation of payload reducing the storage cost at tools farm.

  • 5G Ready: OPBNOS supports parsing of GTP-C and GTP-U packets, providing advanced filtering and load balancing based on inner headers.

  • Unified Management: Aviz FlowVision provides a single pane of glass to manage and visualize the solution. OPBNOS also supports industry-standard CLI and RESTful API for integration into customer orchestration systems.

Packet Capture and Viewer

Open-source Arkimer (Moloch) is deployed for capturing packets from the network aggregators and load balancers. The capture module can sniff packets from the NIC and also supports processing packets from pcap files. The captured packets can be visualized using a simplified viewer providing insights into the metadata including packet headers and payloads. This component also writes the metadata to a centralized storage cluster for future analysis.

Centralized Storage and Visualization

For centralized storage Elastic Storage cluster is utilized which supports distributed scalable storage along with automatic sharding. The metadata saved across the elastic cluster is visualized using Kibana which provides drilled-down information about sessions, network stats and dashboards

Benefits

Cloud Network Infrastructure Monitoring

Monitoring a Cloud network with dislocated data centres can create blindspots that might lead to security and compliance issues. The solution provides comprehensive visibility across the cloud infrastructure, providing end-to-end visibility into the application, and traffic flow and making it easier to correlate network and security events across data centres.

Advanced Monitoring

Aviz OPBNOS exposes the ASIC capabilities for advanced monitoring including deeper packet inspection for security applications, tunnelling (VXLAN) data across data centres using existing IP underlay, and 5G (GTP) packet processing for load balancing using inner headers. All these advanced capabilities support wire-speed forwarding of monitored traffic.

Distributed Solution

The architecture of the complete solution for packet monitoring and analysis is highly distributed, supporting per-site packet capture, analysis and troubleshooting. The extracted metadata from the monitored traffic is stored in a distributed clustered database for centralized analysis and visualization.

Cost Effective

The solution provides end-to-end visibility and wire-speed access to network traffic without the need for investing in new hardware. OPBNOS is built on open-source NOS SONiC which is supported by the majority of the ASIC and switch vendors, customers can easily upgrade to this solution on their existing hardware. Packet capture, analysis and visualization are performed using open-source software running on commodity x86 hardware running Linux.

Open Packet Broker NOS () set of containerized applications built and runs on top of the open-source SONiC NOS. The NOS provides an affordable solution to aggregate, filter, replicate and load balance network traffic from hardware TAPs.

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