This article is designed to help users with the solution requirements of Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance products.
Provider Connectivity Assurance
Provider Connectivity Assurance platform can either be installed On Prem or offered as a managed service in the cloud.
The system requirements for the On Prem solution are found here: Deployment Options
Telemetry Collection
Setting up Telemetry Collection
To set up a Telemetry Collector and Sensor Collector to bring in Telemetry from IOS XR and IOS XE routers, see Capacity Planning and Compute Requirements
Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor Agents
Installation and deployment guidelines
Information on CPU, RAM, Disk, software version and connectivity requirements can be found here.
Agent characteristics and capabilities
Details on the limit of sessions supported by an instance can be seen here.
Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor Capture
Deployment, range, and sizing
Guidelines for picking the right virtual or physical sensor, including full datasheet content about the hardware sensors, cores / threads, RAM, and storage for the software sensors, can be found here.
Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor Control
Viewing resource allocation information
For specific resource allocation information, dependent of deployment type, see Deployment Type Resource Allocation here.
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