Cisco Cisco Prime IP Express 8.2 White Paper

 

 

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This process normally takes about three minutes. When complete, the device is activated and the client is created 

in the Cisco Prime IP Express DHCP server. 

The BYOD feature is an easy to use self-

service web portal and replaces many time−consuming and error-prone 

processes. Management of this self-service system is very simple: 

1.  Install Cisco Prime IP Express Web Server. 

2.  Configure a BYOD service (DHCP, CDNS servers). 

3.  Instruct users how to register their devices. 

4.  Instruct users how to use the user login page to manage devices. 

Functional Architecture 

The BYOD architecture (as shown in Figure 1) requires a minimum of four major components: a local DHCP 

server, a CDNS server, a regional server and an Active Directory server. In the regional server, a new Tomcat 

instance runs to support BYOD. The CDNS server is configured with the Domain Redirect rule with an access 

control list (ACL), which ensures that all the HTTP queries from specific range of addresses are resolved to the 

BYOD Web Server address. Figure 1 diagrams the functional architecture. 

Figure 1.    Cisco Prime IP Express BYOD Architecture