Creating a Collection Group

Pre-requisites: Oracle® Communications Report Manager must be installed properly and the reporting service must be operational. See the Oracle® Communications Report Manager Installation Guide for more information.

Note:

All devices that are added to a collection group must be running the same software and platform version.

1. Expand the Report Manager slider and select Reports, Collection Groups from the navigation pane.

   Note:

   You must have the proper user privileges in order to see the Collection Groups option in the Reports folder on the navigation pane. See the previous sections in this chapter for more information.
2. In the Collection Groups pane, click Add.
3. In the Add a Collection Group pane (Step 1 of 3), complete the following fields:

   Name field	The collection group name.
   Description drop-down list	The description of the collection group.
   Start collection field	Select the Now checkbox to start the collection of data now.
   Later	Click the calendar icon to select a future start date. Enter the future time hh:mm:ss
   Stop collection field	Select the Never checkbox to stop data collection through manual intervention by using the Stop Collection button.
   At	Click the calendar icon to select a definitive end date. Enter the definitive end time: hh:mm:ss

4. In the Managed Devices table, navigate to select individual devices, or navigate to an entire device group folder from which you want to collect data.
5. Click Add to move the device(s) or device group(s) to the Collect on following devices table.
6. Click Next.
7. In the Add a Collection Group dialog box (Step 2 of 3), complete the following fields:

   Push interval field	The number of minutes from 1 to 120 for how often you want the device to send collected records to the push receiver. The default time is 15 minutes. A push receiver is an FTP or SFTP destination server to which a device pushes records.
   Global Collection interval field	The number of minutes you want the device to collect statistics for the specified historical data record (HDR) groups (used for data detection) to view in a report; this value cannot exceed the push interval value. The default time is 5 minutes.
   Collect on all groups field	Select the Yes checkbox to collect data on all collection groups.

8. Check the checkbox for each collection group that you want to change in the Specify the collection interval for each device group, if different than global interval table (if a device group needs a different collection interval than the global collection interval value, which is 5 minutes by default).
9. Click Next.
10. In the Add a Collection Group dialog box (Step 3 of 3), complete the information required to configure the SFTP protocol for pushing HDR data:

    FTP Server IP Address field	The IP address or hostname for the FTP/SFTP push receiver server.
    User name field	The user name for the host FTP/SFTP user.
    Password field	The password for the host FTP/SFTP user.
    FTP path for data storage field	The directory on the push receiver where you want data placed, which may differ from the absolute path given system security though the two typical points to the same location.
    Protocol drop-down list	Select FTP or SFTP as the protocol to send CSV files. You must generate a host key from the push receiver server (the SDM server) and export it to the device(s) if the selected protocol is SFTP. See the Additional Steps for Configuring a Collection Group that Uses SFTP section for more information.
    Absolute path of data storage field	The absolute (Oracle Communications Session Delivery Manager server) path for data storage, which can point to the same directory as the FTP path. For example: /home/nncentral/hdrdata In some implementations absolute path may need to include the FTP root directory. For example: <ftpRootDirectory>/<ftpLocation>

11. Click Finish to complete collection group configuration.
12. In the success message that appears, click OK.
    The collection group now appears in the Collection Groups table.