In order to assess the success and performance of the epSOS large scale pilot, certain performance, scalability, and operational information is about to be collected from the NCP’s and the data that is exchanged by the means of epSOS. The current epSOS reference implementation already supports a limited collection of statistical data, such as the total number of epSOS consumer document passed through the NCP network, error statistics, and human actors.
However, individual participating nations, as well as the epSOS evaluation work package, wish to collect a more sophisticated and flexible collection of data points within epSOS and, if applicable, the affected national infrastructures. Such behaviour was not anticipated during the original specification phase of epSOS and is therefore not included and implemented in the current release. The principle of the Monitoring Manager was the extraction of anonymous audit trail data and its presentation in a dedicated graphical user interface (GUI).
epSOS Automatic Data Collection (eADC)
The epSOS Automatic Data Collection is designed in order to facilitate:
The automatic, unsupervised information gathering and data extraction from every NCP transaction or consumer document that passes the NCP;
Persistent storage of the resulting data sets in a RDBMS, available within each NCP;
The flexible definition of extraction rules and their specific application onto transactions or consumer documents;