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title: Issues with Inbound Data with Google Pub/Sub Connector
slug: manufacturing-connect-edge-v1/issues-with-inbound-data-with-google-pubsub-connector
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createdAt: 2024-06-19T20:05:28.844Z
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If you use the default Google Pub/Sub connector that is created after activating Manufacturing Connect Edge (MCe) with Manufacturing Connect (MC) to create an inbound topic (Remote to Local - Inbound), you may get the following error message when trying to receive data from the topic:

`gcloudpubsub/gcloudpubsub.go:84 failed to check remote topic status {"err": "rpc error: code = PermissionDenied desc = User not authorized to perform this action."`

The error is caused by the configuration of the default Google Pub/Sub connector created during the activation of MCe with MC. The activation process automatically provides a service account to MCe, which only has a publishing permission to the MDE Google Pub/Sub topic. The MDE Pub/Sub topic is created during the deployment of MDE and is to be defined for MC during MC deployment. By default, this topic is `input-messages`. The service account does not give permissions for the connector to publish or subscribe to other topics.

# Solution

To resolve this, you will need to do the following:

1. Create a new Google Pub/Sub connector in Manufacturing Connect Edge. See [Google Cloud Pub/Sub Integration Guide](docId\:aHvfpxopesSvftHeA0bha) to learn more. 
2. Assign the appropriate Service Account to the connector. This Service Account must have the appropriate permissions to subscribe to GCP Pub/Sub topics at the project level, not the topic level. See [Access Control with IAM](https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/access-control) to learn more.