Cisco Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager 8.5 Information Guide
Q&A
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Cisco Prime Unified Provisioning Manager 8.7
General
Q. What is Cisco
Prime
™
Unified Provisioning Manager (UPM)?
A. Cisco Prime Unified Provisioning Manager is part of the Cisco
®
Unified Communications Management Suite.
Cisco Prime Unified Provisioning Manager provides a reliable and scalable web-based solution for managing
a company’s crucial next-generation communications services. Cisco Prime Unified Provisioning Manager 8.7
manages the following Cisco products:
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Cisco Unified Communications Manager
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Cisco Unified Communications Manager - Business Edition
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Cisco Unity
®
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Cisco Unity Connection
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Cisco Unified Presence
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Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express
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Cisco Unity Express
Q. What is Cisco Prime?
A. Cisco Prime for Enterprise is an innovative strategy and portfolio of management products that empower IT
departments to more effectively manage their networks and the services they deliver. Cisco Prime is built
upon a network services management foundation and a set of common attributes. It delivers an intuitive
workflow-oriented user experience across Cisco architectures, technologies, and networks. Cisco Prime
simplifies network management, improves operations efficiency, reduces errors, and makes the delivery of
network services more predictable.
Q. What are the major features of Cisco Prime Unified Provisioning Manager 8.7?
A. The Cisco Prime Unified Provisioning Manager 8.7 release contains:
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Single view of a subscriber and the subscriber’s services
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Simplified management of subscribers, services, and Cisco Unified resources for day 1 and day 2
management tasks
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Web-based provisioning interface for Cisco Unified systems
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Domain-level delegation of day 2 subscriber changes and infrastructure provisioning
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Prebuilt configurations of subscriber products
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Quick Site Builder to speed building new groups (domains) and class of service templates (service areas)
needed to define a new site, branch, or functional group of subscribers/users
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Tracking and reporting on subscriber assets
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Management of line numbers, phone sets (including Cisco IP Communicator and Client Services
Framework [CSF]-based clients), subscribers, and related unified messaging components
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Definition and enforcement of configurable business policies for processing of subscriber requests