Telenet STB EOS Collector
The Telenet STB EOS Collector is part of the CPE setup, and works together with the Telenet CPE Manager, Telenet eMTA Collector and Telenet CM Collector connector. This connector is responsible for the polling of the STB data through an Apache Kafka Queue. The version of the Telenet CPE Manager needs to be at least in the 6.0.2.x version range.
About
This connector does constant multi-threaded polling of the Apache Kafka Queue Brokers through a serial connection to retrieve the data of the STBs for a particular CMTS.
The data will be offloaded into CSV files and will be aggregated by the CPE Manager element. The CPE Manager element will provision the STB EOS Collector with the STBs for which data needs to be retrieved.
Version Info
| Range | Description | DCF Integration | Cassandra Compliant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0.x [SLC Main] | Initial version | No | Yes |
Product Info
| Range | Device Firmware Version |
|---|---|
| 1.0.0.x | Apache Kafka API v1, which is supported since Kafka 0.9.0 |
Installation and configuration
Creation
Serial Main connection
This connector uses a serial connection and requires the following input during element creation:
SERIAL CONNECTION:
Interface connection:
- IP address/host: Will be filled in by the element at runtime. Specify 127.0.0.1 as the value during element creation.
- IP port: Will be filled in by the element at runtime. Keep the default value 8098 during element creation.
Configuration of the broker parameters
The STB EOS Collector's data display pages are not intended to be opened. Instead, the configuration should be performed either through a multiple set or in Visual Overview.
Fill in the IP address and port of the broker to be contacted to request the metadata info. This can be filled in with the Default STB Broker IP and Default STB Broker Port parameters. The IP can be an IPv4 or IPv6 address.
Fill in the CMTS Name parameter so the element knows in which topic of the Kafka queue the STB data can be found.
Configuration of the offload parameters
The parameter Data Offload Folder contains the location of the tuner offload files. The parameter RCCV Data Offload Folder contains the location of the IVR files.
Configuration of the threshold parameters
The threshold parameters are used during aggregation. If the parameter in the CPE manager is %STB With DS SNR < T, then the DS SNR parameter is compared with the DS SNR Low Threshold. If the SNR is below the value in the configuration parameter, the STB is taken into account.
The following parameters can be configured: STB DS BER High Threshold, STB DS SNR Low Threshold, STB Level High Threshold and STB Level Low Threshold.
Configuration of the minimum variation parameters
To avoid having a constant offload of data because of value changes with 0.01, the minimum variation parameters can be configured. This means that the polled value needs to have a difference with the currently displayed value larger than the configured minimum variation parameter before this value will be taken into account.
The following variation parameters can be configured: Minimum Variation Level, Minimum Variation SNR and Minimum Variation BER.
Usage
As described above, the STB EOS Collector is not intended to be used separately. The resulting data should be consulted with the CPE Manager interface of the CPE Manager elements.
Generated CSV files
The STB EOS Collector will generate tab-separated CSV files. For more information on the location of these files, refer to the "Configuration" section above.
Fast tuner offload structure
- Device ID
- SAP ID
- Another Operator
- Node
- Timestamp
- Tuner Number
- Lock Status
- Frequency
- Level
- SNR
- BER
- Error Packets
IVR offload structure
- Device ID
- State
- Timestamp
- SAP ID
- Another Operator