Table of Contents Table of Contents Title and Copyright Information What's New in This Guide 1 Introduction 1.1 References 1.2 Scope and Audience 2 Understanding MDS Functionality 2.1 MDS Overview 2.2 Scope of MDS in DSR 2.3 DSR Architecture with MDS and Functionalities 3 MDS Activation and Deactivation 3.1 Activate MDS Feature 3.1.1 Sample output of Activation on Active NOAM 3.2 Deactivate MDS Feature 3.2.1 Sample Output of Deactivation Active NOAM 4 MDS Properties 4.1 Interval 4.2 Retention 4.3 Selection of Measurements 4.4 Statistics Data Collection 4.5 Connecting to a remote Kafka server 4.6 Topic Name 4.7 Security Encryption 4.8 Data Size and Data Format 4.9 Data Compression 4.10 Delivery Timeout 4.11 Sending data to Kafka 5 MDS Managed Objects 5.1 Measurements of Streaming 5.2 Stream Options