Cisco Cisco Prime Collaboration 10.6 User Guide

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• WSDL

• Web Services

• Socket programming

• Web Services standards (for example, WS-Notification, WS-Enumeration, WS-Resources, and so on).

You should be familiar with the Prime Collaboration Provisioning graphical user interface and how to use it to

provision your network. In most cases, Prime Collaboration Provisioning NBI operations correlate to Prime

Collaboration Provisioning operations.

Also, you should have a basic understanding of Cisco Unified Communications Manager.

Feature Summary

The Prime Collaboration Provisioning NBI provides the following:

• Management of Prime Collaboration Provisioning infrastructure (devices, Domains, and Service Areas).

• The ability to submit work orders for infrastructure products.

• The ability to query Prime Collaboration Provisioning inventory.

• The ability to submit a Prime Collaboration Provisioning work order.

• The ability to configure products.

• Management of subscriber objects.

• The ability to configure subscriber services.

• The ability to submit work orders for subscribers.

• The ability to submit get list work orders.

• One entry point for client systems to issue commands to Prime Collaboration Provisioning.

• The ability to use https or http for transport.

• The ability to retrieve list data using WS-Enumeration specification recommendations.

• The ability to query for status of any NBI request accepted by Prime Collaboration Provisioning Server.

• The listProductAttributeChoice API.

Functional Architecture

The Prime Collaboration Provisioning NBI functional architecture consists of the following:

• WSDL/XSD files with SOAP HTTP bindings exposing the NBI requests and XML-based data models for

all northbound services.

• The Prime Collaboration Provisioning NBI, which receives, tracks, and manages the results of all NBI

requests.

• The following Web Services are supported as part of the Prime Collaboration Provisioning NBI: