What is an adaptor?

Adaptors overview

Adaptors provide mapping between devices and the NSP. All MDM functions in NSP require adaptor files to be installed by an NSP administrator. In general, anything you want to do with an MDM -managed device, including discovery, requires an adaptor.

Note: Some NSP functions, such as telemetry, require other artifacts, such as mapping files, to be installed in addition to adaptors.

Commercially available adaptors are released in adaptor suites (zip files) and updated on a regular basis, outside the NSP release cycle. Adaptors and adaptor documentation are available from Electronic Delivery, Downloads on the Nokia support software download site.

You can engage Nokia to build adaptors for specific NEs and feature sets. Development versions of these customer-specific adaptors are shared with the customer through the Network Developer Portal.. Once they have passed user-acceptance testing, final versions are delivered on the software download site of the Support Portal in a customer-restricted folder hierarchy: Network Services Platform/Adaptors/Customer-specific/<customername>.

Navigate through the hierarchy:

• For Nokia device adaptors, select the NSP release, then the NE family, for example, SR_OS, to see the list of available adaptor suites and documentation.

• For custom multi-vendor adaptors, access your adaptor folder

Nokia recommends that you install all adaptor files in any given suite.

SDK

You can use an SDK to build your own adaptors or customize reference adaptors for your requirements; see the NSP Network Automation Guide.