[cisco-voip] Prime Collab Provisioning 10.6 service templates

[Charles Goldsmith]

Thanks much for the info Jason, I'll look further for it.

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Jason Burns <burns.jason at gmail.com> wrote:

> Charles and Ed,
>
> When I used to work for Cisco, I created batch files for Prime
> Collaboration Provisioning 10.6 service templates for every type of
> template and device for a 100,000-device, 600-site deployment.
>
> I worked directly with the developers to get examples for each type of
> template addition via batch. It's definitely possible! I scripted the
> addition of each site and all the relevant Device, Line, and VM
> templates since it was split into 60 domains. No way I was doing that
> manually.
>
> Look at the Import and Export options in the Getting Started Wizard.
> This will give you an idea of the formats required to add things like
> Domains and Service Templates.
>
> http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/net_mgmt/prime/collaboration/10-6/provisioning/Cisco_Prime_Collaboration_Provisioning_Guide_10_6/Cisco_Prime_Collaboration_Provisioning_10_6_chapter_011.html#concept_7B6E54E941C8467AA275AEF05C775094
>
> Unfortunately I don't have any sanitized copies of the examples devs
> gave me since I left the company - but BECAUSE the Wizard now exists,
> that means the Batch Provisioning code in the product has been updated
> to handle batch addition of all the service template stuff. I made the
> devs give me examples for every template type so I could automate
> mine. I also built scripts to take the customers site data and
> automate the creation of the batch files too.
>
> Input customer site data --Excel Vbs--> Get batch files for prime
> Input batch files to prime --Batch--> Get fully complete sites and
> tempaltes
>
> Come to think of it - I asked the devs to also update the included
> batch example files in the 10.6 version as well. I remember seeing
> copies of things like "AddDomain" and "AddService*"
>
> If you're talking with someone in the BU they *should* know this. Just
> ask them to look at all the example files they gave to Jason Burns.
>
> CCing Jason Holt who is my Prime Provisioning expert still in the
> trenches ;)
>
> Jason - I sent you and Pedro all my examples for that last big
> customer I did. Do you still have the batch example files and the
> Excel macros?
>
> --
> Jason Burns
>
> On 06/14/2015 09:50 AM, Ed Leatherman wrote:
> > Related/side note: was at cisco live last week, and from what i've
> > seen they've really improved their developer site with lots of
> > examples and labs to start learning some of the APIs
> > (devnet.cisco.com <http://devnet.cisco.com>) for those of us with
> > few or rusty programming skills.
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Ed Leatherman
> > <ealeatherman at gmail.com <mailto:ealeatherman at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > My first thought if BAT or PCP doesn't cut the mustard would be to
> > dust off your scripting skills (or someone else's) and write
> > something custom to create or change what you need with the
> > XML/SOAP interface.
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Charles Goldsmith
> > <wokka at justfamily.org <mailto:wokka at justfamily.org>> wrote:
> >
> > We have a customer with 80+ sites and about 10 phone types.
> > Creating the service templates is a daunting task, because there
> > seems to be no way to BAT these in and it's time consuming to
> > create them through the gui.  I did find
> >
> http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/net_mgmt/prime/collaboration/10-5/provisioning/guide/Cisco_Prime_Collaboration_Provisioning_Guide_10_5_and_10_5_1/Cisco_Prime_Collaboration_Provisioning_Guide_10_5_chapter_0111.html#ID1083
> >
> >
> this info, but when you export one, it's missing some info
> > that's unique to the template.  We opened a TAC case on it, and was
> > informed that there is no way to automate this, and we've escalated
> > to the BU about it.  Likely won't be resolved for this customer,
> > but seems that a tool that is designed to assist admin's and help
> > desk to automate tasks, that doesn't have automation built in to
> > bulk import details.
> >
> > Since we have root access to these boxes, I guess it's possible to
> > do some SQL magic, but I'm no expert with that, and not familiar
> > with the Prime setup.
> >
> > Has anyone else tackled this?  Any Cisco employees have some
> > insight in to the best way to do this?
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
> >
> >
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> > -- Ed Leatherman
> >
> >
> >
> >
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