Keysight Cloudlens

Overview

Use Keysight CloudLens with Flowmon to monitor your cloud infrastructure. This solution combines:

• CloudLens agents for traffic collection
• Flowmon modules for advanced analysis:
  • Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics (NPMD)
  • Network behavior analysis
  • Performance monitoring
  • Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) detection
  • On-demand packet capture

When you install CloudLens agents on your virtual instances, they route traffic copies to the Flowmon Collector for processing.

Prerequisites

You must have:

• A running instance of Flowmon (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud).
• A number of running client instances where Keysight-CloudLens Agents can be installed.

Deployment

For an up-to-date deployment guide, refer to the official Keysight-CloudLens documentation.

Flowmon Configuration

To install a Keysight-CloudLens Agent on Flowmon, open an SSH connection to the Flowmon instance using its management IP address and run the following commands. Replace PROJECT_KEY with the value retrieved from the Keysight Portal during project creation.

1. Start docker and enable it as a service:

   sudo systemctl start docker
   sudo systemctl enable docker
   

2. Run the container with the Keysight-CloudLens Agent:

   sudo docker run --name ixia-cloudlens-agent-fmc \  
   -v /:/host \
   -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
   -d --restart=always --net=host \
   --privileged --restart=on-failure \
   ixiacom/cloudlens-agent \
   --server agent.ixia.cloud \
   --accept_eula yes \
   --apikey $PROJECT_KEY
   

3. Verify that the container is running:

   sudo docker ps | grep ixia-cloudlens-agent-fmc
   

Refer to the Post-installation Steps section or follow the instructions on how to enable a monitoring port in the Flowmon User Guide.