--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# ============LICENSE_START===============================================
+# Copyright (C) 2023 Nordix Foundation. All rights reserved.
+# ========================================================================
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ============LICENSE_END=================================================
+#
+
+SD=$(dirname -- "$0")
+echo "${0##*/} script-home: "$SD
+cd $SD
+CWD=$PWD
+
+
+NODE_COUNT=$1
+EVT_COUNT=$2
+NODE_NAME_BASE=$3
+FILE_EXT=$4
+TYPE=$5
+SRV_COUNT=$6
+HIST=$7
+
+print_usage() {
+ echo "Usage: push-genfiles-to-ves-collector.sh <node-count> <num-of-events> <node-name-base> <file-extension> sftp|ftpes|https <num-servers> [hist]"
+ exit 1
+}
+if [ $# -lt 6 ] || [ $# -gt 7 ]; then
+ print_usage
+fi
+
+if [ $TYPE == "sftp" ]; then
+ echo "sftp servers not yet supported"
+elif [ $TYPE == "ftpes" ]; then
+ echo "ftpes servers not yet supported"
+elif [ $TYPE == "https" ]; then
+ :
+else
+ print_usage
+fi
+
+if [ $FILE_EXT != "xml.gz" ]; then
+ echo "only xml.gz format supported"
+ print_usage
+fi
+
+if [ ! -z "$HIST" ]; then
+ if [ $HIST != "hist" ]; then
+ print_usage
+ fi
+fi
+
+if [ "$KUBECONFIG" == "" ]; then
+ echo "Env var KUBECONFIG not set, using current settings for kubectl"
+else
+ echo "Env var KUBECONFIG set to $KUBECONFIG"
+fi
+
+chmod +x kafka-client-send-genfiles-file-ready.sh
+kubectl cp kafka-client-send-genfiles-file-ready.sh nonrtric/kafka-client:/home/appuser
+
+kubectl exec kafka-client -n nonrtric -- bash -c './kafka-client-send-genfiles-file-ready.sh ves '$NODE_COUNT' '$EVT_COUNT' '$NODE_NAME_BASE' '$FILE_EXT' '$TYPE' '$SRV_COUNT' '$HIST
+
+echo done
+