Centralized Management, Orchestration, and Operational Visibility for Multi-Vendor DPI Environments
SEKOM Kognosphere
Kognosphere is a vendor-agnostic DPI Management & Orchestration platform that enables centralized management, monitoring, and orchestration of multi-vendor DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) infrastructures through a single platform.
Through its web-based interface, operators can manage customers, policies, and DPI configurations from a single console. Beyond DPI orchestration, the platform delivers performance monitoring, fault management, and operational intelligence capabilities, providing end-to-end visibility across the entire DPI and Log Collector ecosystem.
Kognosphere includes AI-assisted operational capabilities that do not rely on complex machine learning models, instead leveraging rule-based intelligence, heuristics, and pattern analysis. This approach simplifies day-to-day operations, accelerates fault detection, and enables proactive operational management.
Overall Architecture
- Centralized management layer for multiple DPI vendors and instances
- SNMP, Syslog, SSH, and API integrations with DPI platforms, network elements, and servers
- Unified data model correlating performance metrics, logs, and SNMP traps
- Web-based management, monitoring, and reporting interface
Key Features
Monitoring
- Centralized performance monitoring for DPI platforms, network elements, and servers
- Detailed KPI and health monitoring with extensive metric sets
- Automatic alarm generation based on threshold values
- Alarm notifications delivered via email, Microsoft Teams, and Slack
- Real-time and historical monitoring capabilities
- Multi-tenant monitoring architecture
Management
- Centralized management of multi-vendor DPI environments from a single interface
- Listing, creating, deleting, updating, and viewing customer information
- Operational control over DPI platforms and supporting infrastructure
- Flexible and extensible architectural design
Alarm & Event Management
- Alarm generation based on thresholds, logs, and SNMP traps
- More accurate alarm generation through correlation of metrics, logs, and trap data
- Highlighting potential root causes through alarm enrichment (contextual enrichment)
- Event validation based on multiple data cycles to reduce false positives
- Centralized alarm management interface
Account Management
- Secure user and access management for the web platform
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) support
- Centralized authentication via LDAP and TACACS+ integration
- Seamless access across platform modules with Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Permission-based access control to functions and components
Policy & Subscriber Management
- Middleware architecture where subscriber and policy information is maintained locally
- Abstraction layer between ISP CRM systems and DPI platforms
- Integration via REST APIs and web services
- Centralized management of subscriber-to-DPI platform mapping
- Consistent policy enforcement across multi-vendor DPI environments
- Quota continuity and counter migration during DPI vendor or instance changes
- Operational flexibility and reduced integration complexity
URL Management
- Centralized management of URL data from multiple sources
- Automated and periodic URL data collection mechanisms
- Support for multiple data sources and manual input
- Normalization of URLs and conversion into vendor-specific formats
- Consistent URL enforcement across heterogeneous DPI environments
Clarity Network Visibility Suite Integration
Kognosphere integrates seamlessly with the Clarity Network Visibility Suite (NVS) to deliver end-to-end Performance Monitoring and Incident Management capabilities for DPI platforms, log collectors, and supporting infrastructure.
- Centralized metric definition and threshold management
- Incident generation based on SNMP traps, metrics, and logs
- Correlation-based fault detection and noise reduction
- Unified log management and querying interface
- AI-assisted, rule-based operational intelligence
Operational Processes
Data Collection
- SNMP (v1/v2/v3), SNMP Traps
- Syslog
- SSH-based polling
- Custom scripts
- Push- and pull-based integration models
Action Management
- Rule-based automated actions
- Alerts for disk, service, link, and performance issues
- Event validation based on the last three data collection cycles
Visualization
- Real-time and historical dashboards
- Support for troubleshooting, trend analysis, and operational reporting
Value Delivered to Sekom Customers
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Kognosphere reduces operational complexity in multi-vendor DPI infrastructures by delivering centralized management and visibility. With its AI-assisted operational capabilities, it shortens fault detection times, reduces false alarms, and enables operations teams to work more proactively. Its vendor-agnostic architecture provides investment flexibility and long-term sustainability.
Areas of Use
Centralized management of multi-vendor DPI infrastructures
Policy and subscriber orchestration in ISP and telco environments
Capacity and load balancing scenarios across DPI platforms
Environments requiring operational visibility and incident management
Automation of manual operational processes
Error and performance management in complex DPI ecosystems
Get in Touch Now
Contact us to learn more about Kognosphere and achieve centralized management, enhanced visibility, and operational efficiency across your multi-vendor DPI infrastructures.