Introduction
Prime Provisioning 6.8 is an evolution of Cisco IP Solution Center (ISC) that includes the powerful capabilities of that offering combined with significant enhancements to the user interface, to adding and updating devices and technologies, and to extending the powerful diagnostic workflows. The changes in Prime Provisioning are listed in the
Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.8 Release Notes.
This guide lists many features that are common among multiple applications, which are sold and licensed separately. The applications and their respective User Guides reference this document for setup steps necessary before creating a policy and then a service request specific to the application and for other common features.
Before explaining the tabs in the Graphical User Interface (GUI), see the “Structural Overview” section. It explains elements common to many windows in Prime Provisioning.
The GUI is separated into the following large sections (tabs):
The remaining sections in this chapter explain the sections and subsections of this guide that explain the functionality available from these tabs.
Note The terminology used in this guide and this product can be used interchangeably or preferably with other terms.
Structural Overview
After you log into Prime Provisioning, the first window to appear is the Home window, as shown in Figure 1-1, “Home Window.”
Figure 1-1 Home Window
Note The tabs and the choices navigating within the tabs that appear depend on the user permission, refer to the Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.8 Administration Guide.
There are two new charts available in the home screen, which provides a count of SR's in different states and list the SR's deployed for the past seven days:
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Pie chart—The pie chart provides an overall view of Service Requests in Prime Provisioning with various states. If you click on any state in the pie chart it would redirect to the service manager screen with a list of all Service Requests on the selected state.
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Bar chart—The bar chart displays the last seven days Service requests added, modified, or deleted in Prime Provisioning. If you click of the Bar, it would redirect to the service manager screen with a list of all Service Requests on the selected day.
This overview includes the following sections:
Links
In the upper right-hand corner of the
Home
window (Figure 1-1), additional links appear that function as follows:
User
The
User
in the Home page is
User:
followed by
admin
(default) or a username. When you click User: admin the following window appears:
Figure 1-2 User: admin window
You can change your password without the SysAdmin or UserAdmin privileges when you click the Edit button. This allows you to edit the user profile, including changing the password.
Note Policy or SR creator has to provide Delete permission along with View and Edit permissions to other users to edit the policy.
Customer
The
Customer
in the
Home page is
Customer:
followed by
None
(default) or a customer name. This is referred to as Customer Context. The advantage of Customer Context is to focus only on information for a specified customer. This link becomes active when a default customer is set. The default customer can edit or view customer context.
TE Provider
The
TE Provider
in the
Home page is
TE Provider:
followed by
None
(default) or a TE provider name. This is referred to as TE Provider Context. The advantage of TE Provider Context is to focus only on information for a specified provider. To set the Provider Context, follow these steps:
Step 1 Click on the name after
TE Provider: None
and the following window appears.
Figure 1-3 TE Provider Context
Step 2 Click the
Select
button and you receive a list of all the currently created provider.
Step 3 Click the radio button for the customer for which you want information and click
Select
.
Figure 1-3, reappears with the name of the selected TE provider. Click
Save
or highlight the TE provider name and click
Clear
to reset the TE provider for which you want information.
The TE provider you chose now appears after
TE Provider:
on the
Home window and it is the only TE Provider for which information appears.
Step 4 You can reset the TE Provider Context by clearing and reselecting.
Logout
When you click
Logout
, you log out of the product.
About
When you click
About
, you receive the product name and version.
Common GUI Components
GUI components that are common on many windows are as follows:
Filters
As shown in Figure 1-4, you can filter information in the different windows of the software using the below instructions.
Figure 1-4 Example of Filtering, Header Row Check Box, Rows per Page, and Changing Pages
Note Not all fields mentioned below are present in every window and the order of the fields might vary.
Step 1 Select an option from the Show Category with drop-down list.
Step 2 Enter the search criteria in the matching field, using * in any of the following ways:
a. Enter only * for searching.
b. Place * at the beginning, in between or at the end of characters.
Step 3 In some screens, an extra field is present where you can select or enter more specifics.
Step 4 Click Find.
As shown in Figure 1-5, in some windows of the software such as Policy Manager, Customer and Toggle Picker of the Service Request Editor window, quick filtering option is present.
Figure 1-5 Example of Quick Filter
When you select Quick Filter from the Show drop-down list and start typing in any of the text fields, the list is automatically filtered. The count of the filtered records is shown in the top right corner. From the available records, if you want to keep certain rows visible as you scroll to others, you need to fix the rows.
To fix a row, do the following:
Step 1 Select a row that you want to keep visible when you scroll.
Step 2 Click the Settings icon in the top right corner.
Step 3 Choose Fix Row.
Step 4 Choose Fix to Top or Fix to Bottom.
The selected row remains fixed at the top or bottom as selected while also appearing greyed out in the scroll list. You can detach a row by selecting it and choosing Detach Row from the Settings icon.
Header Row Check Box
Many windows have a check box in the header row, where the column names exist, as shown in Figure 1-4. If you check this check box, then all check boxes in the window are chosen.
Rows per Page
In the bottom left corner of many windows, as shown in Figure 1-4, you can change the number of rows shown on this window in
Rows per page
. Click the drop-down list and you can select
5
,
10
,
20
,
30
,
40
,
50
,
100
,
500
,
1000
, or
2500
.
Go To Page
Near the bottom in the right corner of many windows, as shown in Figure 1-4, there is
Go to page
field
of
y
. In the
field
, you can enter the page you want to choose and then click the
Go
button to get there. The
y
indicates the last page for this topic. Another way to choose a specific page is to use the arrows. You can click the
>
arrow to choose the next page or the furthest arrow to the right
>|
to choose the last page. You can click the
<
arrow to choose the previous page or the furthest arrow to the left
|<
to choose the first page.
Auto Refresh
At the bottom left corner of several windows, there is a check box used to enable or disable the
Auto Refresh
feature, as shown in Figure 1-6. Checking this check box causes the window and its data to refresh every
n
milliseconds. The amount of time between refresh cycles can be set in the DCPL property: GUI.srRefreshRate. By default, the
Auto Refresh
feature is enabled to 30000 milliseconds.
Color Coding
In the Service Request table, the Task table, and the Device table, the colors you see indicate the state of the items, as shown in Figure 1-6.In the
Service Request
table, the states have the following colors:
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BROKEN is bright yellow
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CLOSED is no color
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DEPLOYED is bright green
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FAILED AUDIT is bright yellow
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FAILED DEPLOY is bright red
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FUNCTIONAL is bright green
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INVALID is bright red
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LOST is bright yellow
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PENDING is bright green
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IN-PROGRESS is bright yellow
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REQUESTED is cream
In the
Task
table, the states have the following colors:
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ABORTED is orange
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RUNNING is bright green
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WAITING_TO_RUN is cream
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errors is bright red
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successfully is bright green
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warnings is cyan
In the
devices
table, the states have the following colors:
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device returns anything other than
success
or
no result
, then the color is bright red
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device returns
success
, then the color is bright green
-
no result
from device, then the color is dark blue
Figure 1-6 Colors as Identifiers
Icons
In some windows with tables of information, icons appear to show the type of device, as shown in Figure 1-7.
Figure 1-7 Devices—Icons
Inventory
Inventory
contains tools to manage physical and logical inventory elements, resources, device tools, and reports.
From the Home
window you receive upon logging in, click the
Inventory
tab and you receive a window as shown in Figure 1-9.
Figure 1-9 Inventory Selections
The selections are as follows:
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Physical Inventory
—Create and manage Devices, Device Groups, Inventory Manager, and Discovery.
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Devices
—Create and manage devices (explained in detail in Devices section of Chapter 2, “Before Setting Up Prime Provisioning”).
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Device Groups
—Create and manage device groups (explained in detail in Device Groups section of Chapter 2, “Before Setting Up Prime Provisioning”).
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Inventory Manager
—Bulk-manage inventory elements (explained in detail in Chapter 13, “Using Inventory Manager”).
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Device Console
—Download commands and configlets to devices and view device configuration (explained in detail in Inventory - Device Console section of Chapter 13, “Using Inventory Manager”).
Service Design
Service Design
contains management tools for creating and managing resources, policies, and templates.
From the Home
window you receive upon logging in, click the
Service Design
tab and you receive a window as shown in Figure 1-10.
Figure 1-10 Service Design Selections
The selections are as follows:
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Customers
—Create and manage customers.
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Providers
—Create and manage Providers.
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Resource Pools
—Create and manage pools for IP address, multicast address, route distinguisher, route target, site of origin, VC ID, and VLAN.
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CE Routing Communities
—Create and manage CE Routing Communities.
Administration
Administration
contains tools to manage users, Prime Provisioning configuration, servers, and licensing, to view users and the user access log, and to specify attributes for some messages.
From the Home
window you receive upon logging in, click the
Administration
tab and you receive a window as shown in Figure 1-12.
Figure 1-12 Administration Selections
The selections are as follows:
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Users
—Create and manage Users to also access Inventory Manager, Topology, and Northbound API.
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User Groups
—Create and manage User Groups. A Group is used to combine the privileges of all the roles contained within it.
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User Roles
—Create and manage User Roles, which define a set of permissions.
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Object Groups
—Create and manage a group of objects, such as devices, interfaces, and named physical circuits.
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Hosts
Note If you want to do a custom install, this is only available through the Installation procedure explained in the Cisco Prime Provisioning 6.8 Installation Guide.
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Collection Zones
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Licensing