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Reference Materials and Software Links

Following are useful reference materials on Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager:

Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager 8.5 User Guide

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps7125/products_user_guide_list.html

Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager 8.5 Installation and Upgrade Guides

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps7125/prod_installation_guides_list.html

Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager 8.5 Supported Devices Table

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps7125/products_device_support_tables_list.html

Programming Guide for Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager Northbound Interface

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps7125/products_programming_reference_guides_list.html

Evaluation, upgrade, and patch files

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/cupm-patch

Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager overview documents

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps7125/index.html

Training

Cisco provides an excellent, self-led tutorial for Provisioning Manager, which should be considered mandatory

reading for people who will be managing Provisioning Manager. This tutorial takes less than two hours to go

through and provides task-based walkthroughs for how to use Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager in various

scenarios. The tutorial can be found at

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps7125/prod_presentation_list.html

Cisco also provides a two-day instructor-led training (ILT) course, with “hands-on” labs for people who prefer a

classroom forum in which to learn more about the product. Further information about training can be found at

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

Concepts

Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager is a business-oriented product that operates differently from the devices it

manages. An understanding of the concepts around Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager is necessary to

understand how to get the maximum value from the product.

Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager Concepts

Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager uses concepts to ease the management of Cisco Unified Communications

Manager deployment (Figure 11). The concepts consist of the following:

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Domain

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A logical partition to subdivide a shared environment to create separate local administrative partitions

containing service areas with domain partitions and subscribers. A domain can contain multiple service

areas and may be associated with multiple Cisco Unified Communications Manager or Cisco Unity

clusters.

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Example: A domain could be a company headquarters building or all subscribers in western Europe or

each department in a large enterprise.