Discovery and Monitoring Flow

For the Cell Sites to be discovered, the VMware Aria Operations and the VMware Telco Cloud Automation instance (on which the Cell Sites are configured) must be discovered in the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance. Once the discovery is complete, the CellSite Group, Cell Site, and its association with the Hypervisor will be created in the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance. The real time monitoring of the CellSites, Kubernetes Nodes, and the nodepools takes place every polling interval post the discovery.

Prerequisites

• VMware Aria Operations must be installed and Kubernetes Management Pack must be deployed.
• Kubernetes Management Pack must be configured to manage the infrastructure.
• Modify the /etc/hosts file where the Domain Manager Servers are running to update the IP address to Kafka Service mapping:
  • For TKG deployment: <Virtual IP address of the VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload cluster> kafka-edge.
  • For AKS and AWS deployment: <Kafka Edge IP> kafka-edge.
  • For VM Based On-Prem Demo deployment,: <Kafka Edge IP> kafka-edge.
  Note: For identifying the Kafka IP address, see Identify Data Collection Framework and Kafka IP Address and Port Numbers.

Summary of CellSite Feature

• Kubernetes node discovery (Worker and Master) happens through VMware Aria Operations and monitoring happens through both VMware Aria Operations and VMware Telco Cloud Automation.
• CellSite discovery and monitoring happens through the VMware Telco Cloud Automation.
• VMware Telco Cloud Automation nodepool status is updated with the corresponding Kubernetes Worker node in the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance discovered through the VMware Aria Operations.

As part of the CellSite discovery, the following new objects are created in the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance:

• CellSite
• CellSiteGroup