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The Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance and Analytics—Business OVA, that comes preloaded with the Cisco Prime Collaboration—Standard mode, is installed by default. After the OVA is installed, you must navigate to the Activate Business page in Standard mode to activate the Business option from Standard mode server.
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Discover your Network |
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Step 1 | Prepare
Devices for Auto Discovery.
Prepare the devices in your network first, so that they are ready to get discovered by Cisco Prime Collaboration. |
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Step 2 | Add
Device Credentials.
Add the device credentials to discover devices and collect their inventory details. Always create a different credential profile for each device type. |
See the "Add a Device Credentials Profile" section of "Manage Device Credentials" chapter in Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance and Analytics Business Guide. |
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Step 3 |
Discover Devices.
Discover the various devices, including the video endpoints, automatically The Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch, Cisco TelePresence System, default gateway, and switches are discovered along with Cisco TelePresence-Manager. The Cisco VCS Expressway, Cisco Multipoint Control Unit, Cisco Profile and Codec, default gateway, and switches are discovered along with Cisco TelePresence Management Suite. Cisco TelePresence Conductor is not auto discovered through Cisco TelePresence-Manager/TelePresence Management Suite. The Cisco TelePresence Conductor needs to be discovered separately. For more information on supported devices, see Supported Devices for Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance and Analytics Business 11.5 |
See the "Add Devices— Auto Discovery" section of “Discover Devices” chapter in Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance and Analytics Business Guide. |
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Step 4 |
Configure Cisco Prime Collaboration as CDR and Syslog destination in Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Ignore this step if you have enabled auto-configuration of this setting during the Unified CM auto-discovery.
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Set Up Notifications |
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Step 1 |
Set up the SMTP Server. Configure the SMTP server so that you can receive alarms by email notifications |
See the "Configure SMTP Server" section of "Configure System Parameters" chapter in Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance and Analytics Business Guide. |
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Step 2 |
Set up Alarm Notifications. Create notification groups based on notification criteria of your choice, for the notifications such as SNMP trap, e-mail, and syslog. |
See the "Add a Device Notification Group" section of "Configure Notifications" chapter in Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance and Analytics Business Guide. |
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Set up the Cisco Prime Collaboration Server |
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Step 1 |
Create Users and Assign Roles. Create users and provide them with role-based access control for multiple levels of authorization. |
See the "Add, Edit, and Delete a User" section of “Manage Users” chapter in Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance and Analytics Business Guide. |
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Step 2 |
Back up Settings. Perform or schedule periodic data backups. Data can be restored either on the same system or any other system in the event of a system failure. |
See the "Schedule Backup using Cisco Prime Collaboration User Interface" section of "Perform Backup and Restore" chapter in Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance and Analytics Business Guide. |
To configure the Cisco Prime Collaboration server time zone: