Table Of Contents

Preface

Objective

Audience

Organization

Related Documentation

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Preface

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This preface contains the following sections:

•Objective

•Audience

•Organization

•Related Documentation

•Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Objective

The Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.5 Administration Guide contains detailed explanations of Cisco Prime Provisioning services and components across all applications.

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Note You are able to use Prime Provisioning as a standalone product or as part of the Cisco Prime for IP Next Generation Network (IP NGN) 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 1.1.

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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:

•Chapter 1 "Manage Active Users and User Account," explains how to communicate with active users and manage user account.

•Chapter 2 "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

The entire documentation set for Cisco Prime Provisioning, can be accessed at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12199/tsd_products_support_series_home.html

An overview of the Cisco Prime Provisioning product is available at:

http://www.cisco.com/go/provisioning

The following documents comprise the Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.5 documentation set:

General Documentation (in suggested reading order)

•Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.5 Documentation Overview

•Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.5 Release Notes

•Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.5 Installation Guide

•Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.5 Supported Devices

•Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.5 User Guide

•Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.5 Administration Guide

•Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.5 Open Source

API Documentation

•Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.5 API Programmer Guide

•Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.5 API Programmer Reference

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Note All documents areupgraded over time and these documents are available at the specified URLs.

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Other Cisco Prime Product Documentation

You can alse refer the documentation for the following Cisco Prime products:

•Cisco Prime Central

•Cisco Prime Network

•Cisco Prime Optical

•Cisco Prime Performance Manager

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html

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