Toggle port aggregation in Aria Operations for Networks (AON) to prevent destination ports in aggregated flows from being grouped into broad ranges.

Products

• VCF Operations for Networks

Issue/Introduction

By default, Aria Operations for Networks (AON) summarizes destination port information for aggregated flows into a broad range. As some users may require more granular detail, this feature can be disabled if necessary. Here's an example of aggregated flow with grouped port information in AON:

Environment

Aria Operations for Networks

Resolution

Steps to disable port aggregation for all ports:

1. SSH to collector VM, change the user to ubuntu (ub) and open the configuration file: 

/home/ubuntu/build-target/nfdump/ipfix.configuration 

2. In the commonConfig section, add the following line: 

dynamicPortCoalescerDryRun: false 

Example:

3. Restart the flow-processor service 

sudo service flow-processor stop
sudo service flow-processor start 

 

Steps to enable port aggregation for all ports:

1. SSH to collector VM, change the user to ubuntu (ub) and open the configuration file: 

/home/ubuntu/build-target/nfdump/ipfix.configuration 

2. In the commonConfig section, search for dynamicPortCoalescerDryRun and change value to true

dynamicPortCoalescerDryRun: true 

3. Restart the flow-processor service 

sudo service flow-processor stop
sudo service flow-processor start