How to register a Capture Sensor with Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance

Prerequisites

You must have the following information:

• Cisco® Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor Capture (formerly Skylight sensor: capture) running version 23.08 or newer
• URL of the host on which you want to register the Sensor
• A username and a password (see note below)
• The Sensor should be allowed to reach the IP address of the host and nats service on TCP port 443. Ask our CSMs for this information if you are not sure.

Note: The default admin password will be changed once the Capture Sensor is registered by what is contained in the default profile of Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance (formerly Skylight). If you, the Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance user, have never set the password for the admin in the default profile, the admin account’s password will be disabled.

Procedure

To register a sensor in Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance

1. Type the command register skylight.
2. Enter the host, username, and password.

PVX# register skylight
Tenant Host: tenant.example.domain.accedian.io
Username: user@example.com
Password: 
1/6 Tenant ID retrieved: 7bce824f-b5eb-4aab-854c-7f3f1e534316 
2/6 Initial analytics authentication performed 
3/6 Connector config created on gather 
4/6 Created a short-lived JWT for initial RoadRunner authentication Applying analytics deployment... 
5/6 Analytics deployment applied. This can be reverted later using the 'deploy' command Connecting to RoadRunner 
6/6 Initialized analytics poller 
Successfully registered

To check that the Sensor is registered correctly

1. Log in to Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance as an administrator.
2. Navigate to Sensors ▶ Capture ▶ Sensors.

3. In the Status column, verify that the Sensor is labeled as "Online."

Next Steps

Now that you know how to register your Capture Sensor, see our other features around managing your sensors:

• Capture Sensor Management (full details)
• Capture Sensor Profiles - create templates for your sensor configurations for faster setup in large/diverse deployments