Cisco Cisco ASR 5000

MURAL Software Standard Installation Guide

System Components

The following figure shows the components of the MURAL platform, focusing on

how the data flows through the system:

Standard Setup

The MURAL platform consists of the following nodes, each hosted on blades in the

UCS Chassis:

General Management System (GMS)—Provides centralized management of

the Reflex platform nodes, such as remote manufacturing of blades

(installing the MURAL operating system), patch management, monitoring of

all nodes and operations, and importing and running node configurations.

The GMS node cluster supports high availability.

Collector—Collects data streams pushed to the Reflex platform, interprets

the exported flows, enriches them with static data, and assembles data

sets. The Collector stores the raw data in the Hadoop file system (HDFS)

and sends it to the Compute node. The Collector node cluster can have any

number of servers, in pairs for master and standby and uses 1+1