Cisco Cisco Prime Central for HCS Assurance 9.2.1 Data Sheet

 

 

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Shields the service provider’s OSS/BSS from changes to any underlying domain manager or collaboration 

service and saves the service provider from having to integrate to each individual domain manager through 

mediation provided by the NBI 

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Reduces overhead and time to integrate with BSSs/OSSs and other third-party products 

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Provides robust and simplified security through a central point of access/SSO authentication and 

authorization control 

New in the Current Release 

The newest release of Cisco Prime Central for HCS Assurance (formerly Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation) 

adds these significant features and benefits: 

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Web-based interface to the dashboard 

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Single sign-on access to fully integrated domain managers for seamless access upon user 

authentication to the portal and integration with external authentication servers 

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Cross-domain root-cause analysis that helps enable operators to identify barriers and the causes of 

problems so that permanent solutions can be found and that drives more rapid fault correction 

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Service impact analysis that provides visualization of service-level impact by customer and rates the 

service impact by severity in a way that is easy for the operator to quickly determine what action to take 

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Common user management services with role-based access control (RBAC) helping to enable the 

ability to assign user and group rights as well as associate roles and access rights to different components 

of the suite from a central location 

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Common event/alarm management, normalization, and enrichment with a variety of features that 

drastically reduce troubleshooting time and mean time to repair 

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Monitoring of HCS auxiliary applications, including third-party products as well as virtual machines 

(VMs), OSs, application processes, and network management applications 

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Standards-based NBI to eliminate the need to integrate five separate domain managers through a 

mediation layer that shields the OSS/BSS from changes to any underlying domain manager or collaboration 

service 

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Significantly enhanced NOC operator and network administrator common dashboard providing 

detailed information on faults across all network layers of the transport network for real-time fault 

management across all domains 

Table 1 includes a summary of enhancements and new features of Cisco Prime Central for HCS Assurance. 

Enhancements and New Features of Cisco Prime Central for HCS Assurance 

●  Intuitive interface to web-based dashboard 

●  Eliminates the need to install client applications and 

manage upgrades on multiple client machines 

●  Provides quick and easy access to information 

anywhere, any time