Cisco Cisco ASR 5000
InTracer Support for SGSN
▀ InTracer Support for SGSN
▄ SGSN Administration Guide, StarOS Release 18
InTracer Support for SGSN
Cisco InTracer is a high-performance troubleshooting and monitoring solution for subscribers. It performs call tracing,
control data acquisition, processing and analysis of both active and historical subscriber sessions.
control data acquisition, processing and analysis of both active and historical subscriber sessions.
Cisco InTracer provides a framework for operators to analyze and investigate call flows and call events for subscriber
sessions in real time.
sessions in real time.
Cisco InTracer consists of two modules:
The InTracer Client module: Enables and configures on the Cisco gateway (to start sending subscriber traces
(control plane information for sessions) to InTracer Server module
The InTracer Server module: The InTracer Server module runs on an external box sitting close to the gateway
to process and store subscriber traces
Nodal Trace
The following figure shows a high level view of architecture of InTracer with other components in a deployment
scenario.
scenario.
Figure 45. Nodal Trace
For Nodal trace, the communication between the Gateway and the R-InTracer / R-TCE happens over a proprietary
protocol on top of UDP.
protocol on top of UDP.
3GPP Trace
In 3GPP Trace communication happens through XML files being FTP pushed from the gateway to the R-TCE. R-TCE
receives the FTP pushed files from the gateway and parses them to store their data into the database.
receives the FTP pushed files from the gateway and parses them to store their data into the database.