Preface


The Cisco Broadband Access Center 3.8 Administrator Guide describes concepts and configurations related to Cisco Broadband Access Center, which is called Cisco BAC throughout this guide.

This chapter provides an outline of the other chapters in this guide, detailed information about related documents that support this Cisco BAC release, and demonstrates the styles and conventions used in the guide.


Note This document is to be used in conjunction with the documentation listed in Product Documentation.


This chapter contains the following information:

Audience

Organization

Conventions

Product Documentation

Related Documentation

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Audience

The Cisco Broadband Access Center 3.8 Administrator Guide is written for system administrators involved in automating large-scale provisioning for broadband access. The network administrator should be familiar with these topics:

Basic networking concepts and terminology.

Network administration.

Organization

This guide includes the following chapters:

Chapter
Title
Description

Chapter 1

Broadband Access Center Overview

Describes Cisco BAC, its features and benefits.

Chapter 2

Broadband Access Center Architecture

Describes the systems architecture implemented in this Cisco BAC release.

Chapter 3

Configuration Workflows and Checklists

Provides checklists to follow when configuring Cisco BAC for use.

Chapter 4

CPE Management Overview

Provides an overview of CPE management and describes key concepts supported within Cisco BAC.

Chapter 5

Configuration Templates Management

Describes the configuration templates that Cisco BAC supports, and how to author custom configuration templates.

Chapter 6

Firmware Management

Describes the firmware management feature that Cisco BAC supports.

Chapter 7

Parameter Dictionaries

Describes the use of Parameter Dictionaries.

Chapter 8

CPE History and Troubleshooting

Describes how to troubleshoot CPE, using device information, made available through Cisco BAC.

Chapter 9

Managing Cisco Broadband Access Center

Describes the various options that help manage Cisco BAC.

Chapter 10

Database Management

Describes how to manage and maintain the RDU database.

Chapter 11

Monitoring Cisco Broadband Access Center

Describes how to monitor the Cisco BAC servers.

Chapter 12

Configuring CWMP Service

Describes how to configure the CWMP service for use with Cisco BAC.

Chapter 13

Configuring CWMP Service Security

Describes how to enhance security options using Cisco BAC.

Chapter 14

CWMP Device Operations

Describes the operations that you can perform on the device using Cisco BAC.

Chapter 15

Understanding the Administrator User Interface

Describes how to access Cisco BAC using the administrator user interface.

Chapter 16

Using the Administrator User Interface

Describes administration activities, including searching for and viewing device information.

Chapter 17

Configuring Broadband Access Center

Describes the configuration activities that are performed using the Cisco BAC administrator application.

Chapter 18

Scripting Framework

Describes DPE scriptable extension framework which facilitates creating extension scripts, adding extension scripts in Cisco BAC, and verifying the script status in the DPE.

Chapter 19

RDU and DPE Connection Management

Describes the RDU TCP connection management, RDU batch concurrency and RDU DPE synchronization.

Chapter 20

Cisco BAC Support Tools and Advanced Concepts

Describes Cisco BAC tools intended to help configure, maintain speed, and improve the installation, deployment, and use of Cisco BAC.

Chapter 21

Troubleshooting Broadband Access Center

Describes how to troubleshoot Cisco BAC servers.

 

 

Defines terminology used in this guide and generally applicable to the technologies being discussed.


Conventions

This document uses the following conventions:

Convention
Indication

bold font

Commands and keywords and user-entered text appear in bold font.

italic font

Document titles, new or emphasized terms, and arguments for which you supply values are in italic font.

[ ]

Elements in square brackets are optional.

{x | y | z }

Required alternative keywords are grouped in braces and separated by vertical bars.

[ x | y | z ]

Optional alternative keywords are grouped in brackets and separated by vertical bars.

string

A nonquoted set of characters. Do not use quotation marks around the string or the string will include the quotation marks.

courier font

Terminal sessions and information the system displays appear in courier font.

< >

Nonprinting characters such as passwords are in angle brackets.

[ ]

Default responses to system prompts are in square brackets.

!, #

An exclamation point (!) or a pound sign (#) at the beginning of a line of code indicates a comment line.



Note Means reader take note.



Caution Means reader be careful. In this situation, you might perform an action that could result in equipment damage or loss of data.

Product Documentation


Note We sometimes update the printed and electronic documentation after original publication. Therefore, you should also review the documentation on Cisco.com for any updates.


You can view the marketing and user documents for Cisco Broadband Access Center at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/netmgtsw/ps529/tsd_products_support_series_home.html

The following document gives you the list of user documents for Cisco Broadband Access Center 3.8: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/broadband_access_center/3.8/documentation/overview/
Cisco_Broadband_Access_Center_Documentation_Overview_38.html

Related Documentation


Note We sometimes update the printed and electronic documentation after original publication. Therefore, you should also review the documentation on Cisco.com for any updates.


The following document gives you the list of user documents for Cisco Prime Network Registrar 8.1:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/prime/network_registrar/8.1/doc_overview/guide/
CPNR_8_1_Doc_Guide.html

The following document gives you the list of user documents for Cisco Access Registrar 5.0:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/access_registrar/5.0/roadmap/guide/PrintPDF/
ardocgd.html

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see What's New in Cisco Product Documentation at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html.

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