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Financial Services Monitoring Extension Module for Cisco
Application-Oriented Networking Module Product Overview
Application-Oriented Networking Module Product Overview
The Financial Services Monitoring Extension Module is a new set of components for
Cisco
®
Application-Oriented Networking (AON) Software Release 2.4. It enables
processing of copied and promiscuously received packet traffic and delivers an ordered,
correlated set of observation data to external analytic engines, helping to streamline the
data capture process. The new module consists of specific application message decoders
and filters for Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol.
Features and Benefits
The new Cisco AON Financial Services Monitoring Extension offers the following advantages:
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FIX order flow message framing for promiscuous traffic: FIX order flow message
preprocessing is significantly simplified to enable efficient fast real-time analytics.
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Correlated network events, time stamps, and application messages: The FIX framing
service enables the AON promiscuous mode (PMode) adapter to correlate co-occurring
network events with individual framed FIX messages and a time stamp in microseconds.
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Extensibility: The FIX framing service can be extended by pre-framers and post-framers
as well as specialized send extensions to add filtering or multi-destination sending behavior
to the packet processing. Extensions can be provided through direct extension libraries or
special C or Java libraries that add special processing to the behavior before, during, or
after messaging framing.
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Transparency: The extension enables integration and management as part of the existing
infrastructure. Message-level policy design and enforcement is facilitated by the Cisco AON
Management Console (AMC) and Cisco AON Development Studio (ADS) or through the
standalone command-line interface that is part of the new feature set of AON 2.4.
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Integrated support services: Cisco support provides high-quality, reliable implementation.
Product Architecture
This new set of components extends the PMode processing stack and PMode adapter
components in Cisco AON 2.4. The PMode processing stack provides the capability to receive
copied TCP and UDP packet traffic, process it to preserve the network events, time-stamp the
events at their arrival to the AON capture point, reorder out-of-order packets, and account for
missed bytes. The result is to provide an ordered TCP or UDP segment to the PMode adapter. The
PMode adapter uses an extension framework specialized for processing application messages
distributed within or across TCP and UDP segments. The Financial Services Monitoring Extension
Module consists of specific application message decoders and filters for FIX messages.
The Financial Services Monitoring Extension Module components run on all form factors of Cisco
AON: Cisco Integrated Services Routers, Cisco Catalyst
®
6500 Series Switches, and standalone
network appliances. The output of the Financial Services Monitoring components, once integrated
with the AON PMode adapter, delivers standard AON monitoring messages in near-real time and