Objective

The Cisco Prime Provisioning Administration Guide 7.1 contains detailed explanations of Cisco Prime Provisioning services and components across all applications.

Note You are able to use Prime Provisioning as a standalone product or as part of the Cisco Prime Carrier Management Suite. When installed as part of the suite, you are able to launch Prime Provisioning from Prime Central portal. For more information about Prime Central, see the documentation for Cisco Prime Central 2.0.

Audience

This guide is designed for administrators who are responsible for provisioning Prime Provisioning services for their customers.

Organization

This guide is organized as follows:

• “Manage Active Users and User Account,” explains how to communicate with active users and manage user account.
• “Manage Control Center,” describes how to set up the Prime Provisioning services.
• Chapter 3, “Manage Security” describes how to create users, user groups, user roles, and object groups and how privileges are assigned to these entities.
• Chapter 4, “Backup and Restore of Prime Provisioning Repository” explains the steps that you can follow after installing Prime Provisioning. It also describes the objectives of backup and restore and a standby system and how to set them up for Sybase and for Oracle.
• Chapter 5, “Prime Provisioning Runtime Configuration Information” specifies the default ports and command-line interfaces (CLIs) used by Prime Provisioning.
• Chapter 6, “WatchDog Commands” provide supplementary information.

Related Documentation

See the Cisco Prime Provisioning 7.0 Documentation Overview for a list of all Prime Provisioning guides.

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

Other Cisco Prime Product Documentation

If you are deploying Prime Provisioning as part of the Prime Carrier Management suite, then see also the documentation for the other suite components:

• Cisco Prime Central
• Cisco Prime Network
• Cisco Prime Optical
• Cisco Prime Performance Manager

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