Cisco Prime Provisioning Administration Guide, 7.1

Details

For details about a chosen host, follow these steps:

Step 1 Choose a host by checking the check box to the left of the hostname and then click the Details button.

The Host Details window appears. This shows the details about the chosen host.

Step 2 Click OK to return to the Control Center Hosts window.

Config

To navigate to the Properties pane of the Host Configuration window, perform the following:

1. In the Control Center Hosts window, check the check box of the hostname.

2. Click Config .

You can view or modify Dynamic Component Properties Library (DCPL) properties in the properties pane by following these steps

Step 1 Select a property from the Properties pane as shown in Figure 2-1 to view its explanations, defaults, and ranges/rules.

Note Properties pane contain the details of all the properties in a folder format. If you do not know the property name, you can use a key word and do a Find.

Figure 2-1 Properties

Step 2 Click on the arrow of the property folder.

Note Expand the sub folders till you reach the specific property.

Step 3 Click on the property to view the details and instructions on how to change the value, as shown in Figure 2-2.

Figure 2-2 Properties Detail Example

Step 4 For each property that can be modified, you can modify the value and click Set Property . If when making your modifications, you want to return to the previous settings, click Reset Property .

Step 5 After making all the changes you choose in each of the specific properties, you can click Create Version to create a new version of these properties. This feature gives you the option of saving multiple property sets for future use.

Step 6 To view the values of previous versions of property sets, click the drop-down list on top of the window and select any version you choose.

Step 7 When you click Set to Latest after selecting a version in Step 6, this version is dated as the most current.

Step 8 To return, click to the navigation path you want to use next.

You are able to perform the below mentioned additional tasks using the DCPL properties:

• Supporting Ldap Authentication

Note To perform the below tasks, certificates has to be imported from Prime Network. For more information about this, refer to the section Integrating with Prime Network for Device Import in Cisco Prime Provisioning 7.0 Installation Guide.

• Configuring Prime Network(s) in Prime Provisioning
• Subscribing or Unsubscribing to Prime Central Device Commission and Decommission Notification

Supporting Ldap Authentication

Prime Provisioning provides support with Ldap authentication for a more secured environment. You can use either Oracle Directory Service Enterprise Edition 10g and 11g or Micrososft Active Directory as your LDAP server.

To perform authentication using Ldap server, you need to set the following attributes in the DCPL properties section:

• DistinguishedName
• HostName
• LdapAuthentication
• UserDefinedException

From Prime Provisioning 6.5.0.5 release, Distinguished Name property supports two formats. If the property contains {0} then it is used as a DN template, otherwise it is used as a DN suffix with uid used as a prefix.

For identifying users within a group or subgroup:

This format type is used in Oracle Ldap.

Sample result of this format: uid=donaldh,OU=Employees,OU=Cisco Users,DC=cisco,DC=com as the bind DN.

This format type is used in both Oracle and MS AD Ldap

Sample result of this format: cn=donaldh,OU=Employees,OU=Cisco Users,DC=cisco,DC=com as the bind DN.

In MS AD along with the above format you can mention the DN in two different formats.

For identifying users within a Domain:

For identifying users from the entire Directory:

For successful authentication, the user must be created in both Prime Provisioning and Ldap server with same or different passwords. But when you login into Prime provisioning by enabling LdapAuthentication, you need to enter the password that was configured in Ldap server.

Configuring Prime Network(s) in Prime Provisioning

In the Host Configuration screen, you can configure Prime Network in Prime Provisioning by choosing Properties > Inventory Import > Prime Network and modifying the below values:

• enablePrompts - Prompts are present on the server so that the Prime Provisioning can execute the web services at the backend.
• Gateway - Multiple gateways can be configured by separating the values with a comma. The order in which the Prime Networks are configured has an impact on the inventory import.

• loginPrompts - General configuration for the login prompts on the server.
• logLevel - Log level for the inventory import log.
• Password and UserName
• Prime Provisioning can interface with Prime Network in both the installation modes: Standalone mode and Suite mode integrated with Prime Central.
• When Multiple Prime Networks are configured either in Standalone or Suite mode, the login credentials provided should be able to access all the instances of Prime Network.

• Password provided here is encrypted both at the screen level and also in the database. Be sure to configure a valid value for the Inventory Import, Device Commission and Device Decommission features to function as expected

initdb Script Enhancements to Retain DCPL Values with Configured Values

During Prime Provisioning upgrade, to retain the Dynamic Component Properties Library (DCPL) property values without a reset, use the following CLI commands:

The values are retained or updated in the Prime Provisioning repository based on the following criteria.

1. When the initdb.sh script is run without any argument, Prime Provisioning reads the DCPL properties from vpnsc.properties and updates them in the Prime Provisioning repository.

2. When the initdb.sh script is run with noreset argument, Prime Provisioning retains the DCPL values which are already configured.

When the initdb.sh script is run with some irrelevant argument other than the noreset argument, Prime Provisioning will display an error message; “The only supported argument for initdb.sh is norese”

Subscribing or Unsubscribing to Prime Central Device Commission and Decommission Notification

When Prime Provisioning is either installed in suite mode or upgraded to suite mode, it subscribes to Prime Central device commission and decommission notifications by default. Once subscribed, Prime Central forwards the device commission and decommission notifications received from the other Domain Managers to Prime Provisioning.

To subscribe or unsubscribe to Prime Central device commission and decommission notifications, choose InventoryImport > PrimeCentral > enableNotification from the Properties pane and proceed as mentioned below.

• To receive notifications, set the property to true.
• To stop receiving notifications, set the property to false.

To view the notification logs when there is no host selected in the Host window, choose Logs > PCNotification. The information related to creation and deletion of a device are captured here.

Servers

To view the status information about the servers, follow these steps:

Step 1 From the Control Center Hosts window, check a check box next to a hostname for which you want to know the server statistics and then click the Servers button.

A window as shown in Figure 2-3, appears.

Figure 2-3 Servers

Step 2 Check any one check box next to the server you want to address and you have access to Start , Stop , Restart , and Logs . When you click on a specific server name or the Logs button, you get a list of server logs. If you then click on the log name for which you want details, the log viewer appears. You can filter this information in the log viewer. After you complete the task of your choice, you return to Figure 2-3.

Step 3 You can click a different server and click the button for the process of your choice. Or you can unclick the server choice and click OK .

Step 4 After you click OK in Figure 2-3, you return to the Control Center Hosts window.

Watchdog

To view the log information about WatchDog, follow these steps:

Step 1 From the Control Center Hosts window, check a check box next to a hostname for which you want to know the WatchDog logs and then click the Watchdog button.

A window as shown in Figure 2-4, “WatchDog Logs,” appears.

Figure 2-4 WatchDog Logs

Step 2 Click on a specific WatchDog log name in the Name column to get the contents of that log. You can filter the information in this log. Click OK to return to Figure 2-4.

Step 3 You can repeat the process in Step 2 or click OK to return to the Control Center Hosts window.

Logs

To view install and uninstall logs for the Master server, follow these steps:

Step 1 From the Control Center Hosts window, be sure that no check boxes are checked.

Step 2 Click the Logs drop-down list and select Install or Uninstall .

The window that appears is the log of installations or uninstallations, dependent on your selection in Step 2.

Step 3 Click the link in the Name column to view the detailed log information.

Step 4 Click OK to return to the window.

Step 5 Click OK again to return to the Control Center Hosts window.