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description: Admins can use telemetry definitions to create a logical structure of an asset's sensors and actuators. Create and activate telemetry definition records to define telemetry action definitions for executing remote commands.
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# Manage Telemetry Definitions

Admins can use telemetry definitions to create a logical structure of an asset's sensors and actuators. Create and activate telemetry definition records to define telemetry action definitions for executing remote commands.

- **[Create a Telemetry Definition](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.ca_telemetry_defn_create_version.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Store the structure of an asset model in telemetry definition records.
- **[Upload Telemetry Definition Component Structure](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.ca_telemetry_defn_upload_cs.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Define your component structure in JSON format.
- **[Activate a Telemetry Definition Version](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.ca_telemetry_defn_activate_version.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    A telemetry definition version is created in inactive status. Activate a telemetry definition version to create telemetry action definitions.