Live partitioning requirements, additional NSP components

Live NSP Flow Collector Controller partitioning scheme
CAUTION 

CAUTION

Service Disruption

Each disk partition described in this section must be a mounted partition, and not a symbolic link. The use of symbolic links to represent partitions is not supported.

Do not use a symbolic link to represent an NSP partition under any circumstances.

The following table lists the disk partitions required for the deployment of an NSP Flow Collector Controller in a live network environment.

Table 2-16: Live partitioning scheme, NSP Flow Collector Controller

Disks required: two 300 Gbyte (RAID 0)

Partition

Content

Size (Gbytes)

swap

Swap space

16

/

Root

26

/home

User home directories

0.5

/tmp

Temporary files

4

/var

System data

64

/var/log

System logs

6

/var/log/audit

System audit logs

6

/opt/nsp

NSP Flow Collector Controller software, operating data

20

/opt/nsp/flow/fcc/data/extraction

Extracted NFM-P network data model

50

/extra

NSP software storage

50

Live NSP Flow Collector partitioning scheme
CAUTION 

CAUTION

Service Disruption

Each disk partition described in this section must be a mounted partition, and not a symbolic link. The use of symbolic links to represent partitions is not supported.

Do not use a symbolic link to represent an NSP partition under any circumstances.

The following table lists the disk partitions required for the deployment of an NSP Flow Collector in a live network environment.

Table 2-17: Live partitioning scheme, NSP Flow Collector

Disks required: two 300 Gbyte (RAID 0)

Partition

Content

Size (Gbytes)

swap

Swap space

16

/

Root

26

/home

User home directories

0.5

/tmp

Temporary files

4

/var

System data

64

/var/log

System logs

6

/var/log/audit

System audit logs

6

/opt/nsp

NSP Flow Collector software, operating data

50

/opt/nsp/flow/fc/data/results

Collected statistics data files

200

/extra

NSP software storage

50

Live collocated NSP Flow Collector Controller / Flow Collector partitioning scheme
CAUTION 

CAUTION

Service Disruption

Each disk partition described in this section must be a mounted partition, and not a symbolic link. The use of symbolic links to represent partitions is not supported.

Do not use a symbolic link to represent an NSP partition under any circumstances.

The following table lists the disk partitions required for the deployment of an NSP Flow Collector Controller and Flow Collector that are collocated on one station in a live network environment.

Table 2-18: Live partitioning scheme, collocated NSP Flow Collector Controller and Flow Collector

Disks required: two 300 Gbyte

Partition

Content

Size (Gbytes)

swap

Swap space

16

/

Root

26

/home

User home directories

0.5

/tmp

Temporary files

4

/var

System data

64

/var/log

System logs

6

/var/log/audit

System audit logs

6

/opt/nsp

NSP Flow Collector software, operating data

70

/opt/nsp/flow/fcc/data/extraction

Extracted NFM-P network data model

50

/opt/nsp/flow/fc/data/results

Collected statistics data files

200

/extra

NSP software storage

50

Live NSP analytics server partitioning scheme
CAUTION 

CAUTION

Service Disruption

Each disk partition described in this section must be a mounted partition, and not a symbolic link. The use of symbolic links to represent partitions is not supported.

Do not use a symbolic link to represent an NSP partition under any circumstances.

The following table lists the disk partitions required for the deployment of an NSP analytics server in a live network environment.

Table 2-19: Live partitioning scheme, NSP analytics server

Disks required: one 300 Gbyte (RAID 0)

Partition

Content

Size (Gbytes)

swap

Swap space

16

/

Root

26

/home

User home directories

0.5

/tmp

Temporary files

4

/var

System data

64

/var/log

System logs

6

/var/log/audit

System audit logs

6

/opt/nsp

NSP analytics server software, operating data

100

/extra

NSP software storage

50