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Explain how Data Products and ingestion agents work together in Operator Insights overview
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articles/operator-insights/how-to-install-mcc-edr-agent.md

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# Create and configure MCC EDR Ingestion Agents for Azure Operator Insights
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The MCC EDR agent is a software package that is installed onto a Linux Virtual Machine (VM) owned and managed by you. The agent receives EDRs from an Affirmed MCC, and forwards them to Azure Operator Insights
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The MCC EDR agent is a software package that is installed onto a Linux Virtual Machine (VM) owned and managed by you. The agent receives EDRs from an Affirmed MCC, and forwards them to Azure Operator Insights Data Products.
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## Prerequisites
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- You must have an Affirmed Networks MCC deployment that generates EDRs.
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- You must have an Azure Operator Insights MCC Data product deployment.
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- You must deploy an Azure Operator Insights MCC Data Product.
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- You must provide VMs with the following specifications to run the agent:
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articles/operator-insights/how-to-install-sftp-agent.md

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# Create and configure SFTP Ingestion Agents for Azure Operator Insights
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An SFTP Ingestion Agent is a software package that is installed onto a Linux Virtual Machine (VM) owned and managed by you. The agent pulls files from an SFTP server, and forwards them to Azure Operator Insights.
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An SFTP Ingestion Agent is a software package that is installed onto a Linux Virtual Machine (VM) owned and managed by you. The agent pulls files from an SFTP server, and forwards them to Azure Operator Insights Data Products.
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For more background, see [SFTP Ingestion Agent overview](sftp-agent-overview.md).
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## Prerequisites
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- You must have an SFTP server containing the files to be uploaded to Azure Operator Insights. This SFTP server must be accessible from the VM where you install the agent.
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- You must have an Azure Operator Insights Data Product deployment.
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- You must deploy an Azure Operator Insights Data Product.
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- You must have an SFTP server containing the files to be uploaded to the Azure Operator Insights Data Product. This SFTP server must be accessible from the VM where you install the agent.
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- You must choose the number of agents and VMs on which to install the agents, using the guidance in the following section.
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### Choosing agents and VMs

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# What is Azure Operator Insights?
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- Pipelines managed for all operators, leading to economies of scale dropping the price.
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- Operator compliance including handling retention policies.
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- Common data model with open standards such as parquet and delta lake for easy integration with other Microsoft and third-party services.
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- Common data model with open standards such as parquet and delta lake for easy integration with other Microsoft and non-Microsoft services.
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- High speed analytics to enable fast data exploration and correlation between different data sets produced by disaggregated 5G multi-vendor networks.
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The result is that the operator has a lower total cost of ownership but higher insights of their network over equivalent on-premises or cloud chemistry set platforms.
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The result is that the operator has a lower total cost of ownership but higher insights of their network over equivalent on-premises or cloud chemistry set platforms.
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## How does Azure Operator Insights work?
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Azure Operator Insights requires two separate types of resources.
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- _Ingestion agents_ in your network collect data from your network and upload them to Data Products in Azure.
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- _Data Product_ resources in Azure process the data provided by ingestion agents, enrich it and make it available to you.
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- You can use prebuilt dashboards provided by the Data Product or build your own in Azure Data Explorer. Azure Data Explorer also allows you to query your data directly, analyze it in Power BI or use it with Logic Apps. For more information, see [Data visualization in Data Products](concept-data-visualization.md).
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- Data Products provide [metrics for monitoring the quality of your data](concept-data-quality-monitoring.md).
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- Data Products are designed for specific types of source data and provide specialized processing for that source data. For more information, see [Data types](concept-data-types.md).
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:::image type="content" source="media/concept-data-quality-monitoring/operator-insights-architecture.svg" alt-text="Diagram of Azure Operator Insights Data Product architecture. It shows ingestion from on-premises data sources, processing in a Data Product, and analysis and use in Logic Apps and Power BI." lightbox="media/concept-data-quality-monitoring/operator-insights-architecture.svg":::
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We provide the following Data Products.
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|Data Product |Purpose |Supporting ingestion agent|
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|[Quality of Experience - Affirmed MCC Data Product](concept-mcc-data-product.md) | Analysis and insight from EDRs provided by Affirmed Networks Mobile Content Cloud (MCC) network elements| [MCC EDR ingestion agent](how-to-install-mcc-edr-agent.md)|
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| [Monitoring - Affirmed MCC Data Product](concept-monitoring-mcc-data-product.md) | Analysis and insight from performance management data (performance statistics) from Affirmed Networks MCC network elements| [SFTP ingestion agent](sftp-agent-overview.md) |
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If you prefer, you can provide your own ingestion agent to upload data to your chosen Data Product.
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## How do I get access to Azure Operator Insights?
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