How do I manage subscriptions?

CAUTION 

CAUTION

Service Disruption

The name of an object, including subscriptions, baselines, indicators, templates, and chart profiles, cannot contain a semicolon (;) or backslash (\).

The use of these characters in an object identifier will result in corrupted data that must be deleted by Nokia support.

Steps

 

Open Data Collection and Analysis Management, Subscriptions.


To create a subscription:

  1. Click png3.pngSubscription.

  2. In the Create Subscription form that opens, configure the General parameters as needed.

    • Enable database (DB) subscriptions as needed to save telemetry data to the NSP database.

      For NSP deployments without an auxiliary database, telemetry data is stored in the NSP database. For NSP deployments with an auxiliary database, telemetry data is stored in the auxiliary database. For telemetry data to be available to Analytics, the auxiliary database must be deployed.

    • Enable file subscriptions as needed to save accounting statistic information to a file.

    • In the Directory Path for File Output field, enter a path for file output if needed.

      If the field is left blank, accounting files will be saved to accounting/output/ready/NE ID/date.

      If a path is entered, the path folders are created in the accounting/output/ready directory. For example, if you enter new/files, the path to the files is accounting/output/ready/new/files.

      The path can include any number of subdirectories.

    • The subscription is enabled by default. It will start running immediately.

      Choose Disabled in the State field if you want to enable your subscription later.

  3. In the Object Filter field, enter filtering information as needed to filter the collected data.

    As you type, the field provides suggestions for available filters to match your input and identifies incorrect syntax.

  4. Enter information in the Telemetry Type field. As you type, the field filters for available telemetry types to match your input.

    Choose the telemetry type you need from the list of matches.

    When you enter a telemetry type, all counters are enabled by default.

  5. To customize the counters, enable the Enable notifications and notification counters check box.

    Click Removepng4.png to remove a counter.

    Click png3.pngCounters to add a counter that was removed.

    Note: If database subscriptions are enabled, all counters are collected and persisted in the database, regardless of counter selection in the Counters list.

  6. To customize the topic name for Kafka notifications, enable the Specify a custom notification topic check box.

    Enter the name for your topic in the field. The name of the topic will be ns-eg-tel-entry, where entry is the text you entered.

  7. Click Create.

    The subscription begins collection immediately, unless it was disabled in step 2.


To edit a subscription:

  1. Choose a subscription and click png2.png(Table row actions), Edit.

  2. In the form that opens, update the parameters as needed and click Update.

Note: Custom notification topic names cannot be edited.


To delete a subscription:

Choose a subscription and click png2.png(Table row actions), Delete.

The subscription is removed immediately.

Note: Removing a subscription does not remove data from the database. The data collected by the subscription is retained according to the database retention policy.

If a custom notification topic is in use, deleting the subscription deletes the topic, allowing the topic name to be used by a new subscription.

End of steps