Cloud Packet Capture Overview

The Cloud Packet Capture is used to capture and forward hits to a cloud-based CX PCA that is operating on a virtual machine.

The CX PCA processes the hits that are forwarded by the Cloud Packet Capture.

The Cloud Packet Capture software is included with the CX PCA and consists of a transmitter and a receiver component. The transmitter captures TCP packets and forwards them to the designated receiver. The receiver can be configured to capture data that is submitted from a specified transmitter. You can configure multiple transmitter instances to send data to a centralized CX PCA. Each transmitter instance must connect to an individual receiver instance on the CX PCA.

Note: Transmitter instances and a receiver instances cannot share the same listening port.

The Cloud Packet Capture provides the following functionality:

Replaces the default TCP packet sniffer component of the PCA with a network socket listener
Directs traffic into an internal PCA instance. The transmitter points to a centralized PCA instance in the cloud and delivers packets to the receiver through a network connection.
TCP packets are captured by sniffing the designated port.

The Cloud Packet Capture components can be deployed in a public or private cloud to manage capture and forwarding of TCP packets for processing by a cloud-based IBM® Tealeaf® installation.