1. REST API for Session Border Controller, Enterprise Session Border Controller, and Subscriber-Aware Load Balancer, Release 10.0.0
  2. Tasks
  3. Statistics

Start, stop or restart HDR collection

put

/rest/{version}/statistics/collections

Executes Historical Data Records (HDR) collection command to start, stop or restart collection on one or all collection groups.

This API is only available for SBC and ESBC.

Request

Path Parameters
Query Parameters
  • Collection action to take on data collections.
    Available values: start, stop, restart
  • Optional parameter to specify the collection group. This parameter is only valid for the "start" and "stop" collection actions. If this parameter is not specified, action is taken on all collection groups. The "restart" action is always taken on all collection groups.
Header Parameters
  • The value in the Authorization header must be the string "Bearer {access token}", where {access token} is a valid, unexpired token received in response to a prior /rest/{version}/auth/token request.
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Response

200 Response

OK - Request successful

400 Response

The request is malformed in some way or is missing required information and therefore cannot be processed.

401 Response

Unauthorized - Request lacks valid authentication credentials.

403 Response

This request requires the client credentials to have administrator privileges.

404 Response

Resource not found
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Examples

Examples of Accessing the API

See Authenticate for how to acquire a token.

The following example shows how to start, stop or restart HDR collection using curl.

curl -X PUT \
    --header "Accept: application/xml" \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
    "https://${SBCIP}/rest/v1.1/statistics/collections?action=start&collectionObject=fan"

The following example shows how to start, stop or restart HDR collection using Python.

import requests
headers = { "Accept":"application/xml", "Authorization":"Bearer " + token }
url  = "https://" + sbcip + "/rest/v1.1/statistics/collections?action=start&collectionObject=fan"
resp = requests.put(url, headers=headers)

Example of the Response Body

The following example shows the contents of the response body in XML.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<response>
  <data>Collection process started</data>
  <messages/>
  <links/>
</response>
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