Components of Prime Cable Provisioning
This section describes the basic Prime Cable Provisioning components, such as:
Regional Distribution Unit (RDU) that provides:
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The authoritative data store of the Prime Cable Provisioning system.
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Support for processing application programming interface (API) requests.
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Monitoring of the system’s overall status and health.
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RBAC for better user management.
See Regional Distribution Unit for additional information.
Provisioning Web Services (PWS) that provides:
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SOAP/RESTful based web services for device provisioning functions.
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Support for both HTTP and HTTPS connectivity.
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Supports interacting with multiple RDU servers.
See Provisioning Web Service for additional information.
Device Provisioning Engines (DPEs) that provide:
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Interface with customer premises equipment (CPE).
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Configuration cache.
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Autonomous operation from the RDU and other DPEs.
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PacketCable provisioning services.
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Dual-stack provisioning
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IOS-like command-line interface (CLI) for configuration.
See Configuring Device Provisioning Engines and Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning 6.1.1 DPE CLI Reference Guide for additional information.
Prime Cable Provisioning API that provides total client control over system capabilities
See Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning 6.1.1 Integration Developers Guide for additional information about the APIs.
Cisco Prime Network Registrar Extensions Point that leverage the Cisco Prime Network Registrar's services, such as:
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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).
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Domain Name System (DNS).
See Cisco Prime Network Registrar Extension Points for additional information.
Provisioning Groups that provide:
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Logical grouping of Network Registrar servers and DPEs in a redundant cluster.
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Redundancy and scalability.
See Provisioning Groups for additional information.
A Kerberos server (KDC) that authenticates PacketCable Multimedia Terminal Adapters (MTAs). See Key Distribution Center, for additional information.
The Prime Cable Provisioning process watchdog that provides:
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Administrative monitoring of all critical Prime Cable Provisioning processes.
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Automated process-restart capability.
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Ability to start and stop Prime Cable Provisioning component processes.
See Prime Cable Provisioning Process Watchdog for additional information.
An SNMP agent that provides:
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Third-party management systems.
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SNMP version v2.
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SNMP Notification.
See SNMP Agent for additional information.
An Admin UI that supports:
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Adding, deleting, modifying, and searching for devices.
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Configuring of global defaults and defining of custom properties.
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Configuring groups.
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Configuring servers and Provisioning Groups.
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Configuring RBAC.
See Administrator User Interface for additional information.