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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
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Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager 8.5 Installation and Upgrade Guides
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps7125/prod_installation_guides_list.html
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Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager 8.5 Supported Devices Table
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps7125/products_device_support_tables_list.html
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Programming Guide for Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager Northbound Interface
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps7125/products_programming_reference_guides_list.html
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Evaluation, upgrade, and patch files
http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/cupm-patch
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Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager overview documents
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps7125/index.html
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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
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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
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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.