How to register a Capture Sensor with Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance

Pre-requisites

You need to 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.

Procedure

1. To register a sensor in Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance, type the command "register skylight". You'll need to 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

2. To check that the sensor is registered correctly, log into Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance (formerly Skylight performance analytics) as an administrator.
   Go to the Settings section, and on the "Capture" tab, click on "Sensors".
   Skylight Analytics: Settings > Capture > Sensor

3. Once the sensor shows "Online", a new Connector will also be listed automatically on the Settings > Session > menu:

Next steps

Now that you know how to register your capture sensor, check out 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