Running the Application

Command Line Arguments

Flag	Description	Required	Default
-c	Path to the configuration file	Yes
-s	Server running the PoF Oracle database	Yes	localhost
-p	The port number of the server running the PoF Oracle database	Yes	1521
-i	Oracle database instance holding the PoF database	Yes	nms
-d	Allows to network model to be written to a specific dates file	No
-f	Forces an overwrite if an existing extract database exists.	No	false
--detailed-stats-log	Used to show detailed messages for each warning collected in the summary output	No

To run the tool, execute the following command at a terminal.

java -Xmx<heap size> -Xms<heap size> -jar <path to pof-network-extractor jar> -c <path to config file> -s <PoF Oracle server> -i <PoF Oracle instance>

where:

• heap size is the desired size of the heap. E.g. 16g

Heap Size Estimation

PoF system with 2.5 million components requires around 10GB

The LV Mapping data requires around 2GB

Together with the process overhead, the recommended heap size is 16GB