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Major Features

• Stream collection: Syslog,AVRO and JSON streams were supported in Be-release

• Persistence: Flume based persistence layer. Hbase is used for persistence

• Search and analyze:

  • Support for SQL query.

  • Time range for search can be specified. Histogram for search results.

• Custom Dashboard :

  • Build pre-defined views on data by adding widgets. Domain expert can define search query and save results on dashboard.

  • Search result type : Counts, Search result histogram charts.

• Real-time event generation (Intercepted logs and Alarms) based on Rules :

  • Intercepted logs: Mechanism to route messages into categories in real time while they are processed like stream for audit logs( install bundle etc.) .

  • Alarms: Alerts get generated based on specific event matching in real-time. Alarm condition types includes Message count condition, Field value condition,Field string value condition

• Subscribe event: Northbound of Centinel can subscribe for events in real time by registering HTTP link to specified types of events. Subscribed

events will be sent to northbound via HTTP post operation.

• Web interface : Enable set rule, search, visualize, alert, dashboard, subscribe etc.

Target Environment

For Execution

• Requires Java 7 compliant runtime environment.

• Follow the user guide documentation to install OpenDaylight controller with centinel.

For Development

• Requires Java 7 compliant runtime environment, Maven version 3.1.1.

• Follow the user guide documentation to install OpenDaylight controller with centinel.

• Use Centinel UI and apidocs to check the creation of streams and rules and generate events.

Known Issues and Limitations

• Known Bugs