Telemetry Collector

Overview

Telemetry Collector is a data collection component that works in conjunction with Sensor Collector to securely transmit data to  Provider Connectivity Assurance. At it’s core, it contains an embedded version of Telgraf, which makes it highly customizable for a variety of telemetry data sources.

To understand the importance of telemetry in Provider Connectivity Assurance, check out this "Telemetry 101" article.

Provider Connectivity Assurance comes with two “out-of-the-box” Telemetry Collectors for IOS-XE and IOS-XR routers, as described in detail in this Solution Guide. There is also an “out-of-the-box” Telemetry Collector for Mobility Core performance monitoring.

For other telemetry sources, CX or Partners can be hired to build custom telemetry ingestion pipelines using the Telemetry Collector and Sensor Collector.

Solution Architecture

Check out the Solution Architecture article to get a visual overview of the components involved.

Capacity Planning and Compute Requirements

Summarized in this article:

Capacity Planning & Compute Requirements

Modes of Operation

A Telemetry  Collector normally works to collect data and pass to Sensor Collector which, in turn, securely transmits the data to Provider Connectivity Assurance. In some rare use cases, the customer required transmission of data from a device directly to a Kafka bus, and for that scenario, we implemented a special feature described in this article. Note that this use case is rare and its not the normal mode of operation for Telemetry Collector - it’s main purpose in the solution is to deliver data to Provider Connectivity Assurance.

Generate Authentication Token

Generate an authentication token to by used by the Telemetry Collector to authenticate itself on the first connection to Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance.

To generate an authentication token:

1. From the list, click the Telemetry Collector row.

   The right sidebar appears.

2. In Telemetry container setup, click Generate auth token.

Download Telemetry Collector Report

Generate and download a technical report from the  Telemetry Collector to use for troubleshooting.

To download a  Telemetry Collector report:

1. From the list, click the Telemetry Collector row.

   The right sidebar appears.

2. In Generated report file, click Download.