Cisco Cisco Prime Central 1.5.2 Installation Guide
Configuring Applications as Suite Components
You can integrate an existing installation of the following applications with Prime Central:
• Cisco InTracer
• Prime Network, including the Prime Network integration layer
• Prime Optical, including the Prime Optical integration layer
• Prime Performance Manager
• Prime Provisioning
• Agora-NG
This section assumes that you have already installed the application in standalone mode, and now you want it to join the Prime Carrier
Management suite.
Management suite.
Integration Process
When you install an individual application, it contains the following files, which the Prime Central portal and Prime Central integration
layer require to identify and route to the application:
layer require to identify and route to the application:
• DMIntegrator.sh—Wrapper script to invoke the API to register the application with the Prime Central platform.
• DMIntegrator.tar—Tar bundle that contains the libraries required to register the application.
The application integration (also known as registration) process is as follows:
1
The DMIntegrator.sh and DMIntegrator.tar files integrate the application with Prime Central. (These files are bundled with the
application installers.)
application installers.)
2
The DMIntegrator.prop file is generated when the application is installed. (This file contains information to populate the application
in the Prime Central database and is provided as input to the DMIntegrator.sh script.)
in the Prime Central database and is provided as input to the DMIntegrator.sh script.)
3
The DMIntegrator.sh script runs in interactive or silent mode:
• Interactive mode—You are prompted for database information such as username, password, IP address, service name, and
so on.
• Silent mode—Database information is passed as CLI arguments to the DMIntegrator.sh script.
These modes are useful for both:
• Standalone application integration
• Seamless installation as a suite component
4
The DMIntegrator.sh script calls the DMSwitchToSuite.sh script, which switches between the standalone application installer
and the integrated application installer.
and the integrated application installer.
5
The application installer installs the application in either standalone or integrated mode. In integrated mode, the application
installer calls the DMIntegrator.sh script to make the integration seamless.
installer calls the DMIntegrator.sh script to make the integration seamless.
Note the following:
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