Prerequisites

This chapter describes the prerequisites for installing Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager on a Windows system. It includes:

Product Overview

Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager (Provisioning Manager) provides a scalable web-based solution to manage a company's next-generation communication services. It Provisioning Manager manages IP communication services in an integrated IP telephony, voicemail, and unified messaging environment that includes Cisco Unified CallManager, Cisco Unified CallManager Express, Cisco Unity, Cisco Unity Express, and Cisco Unity Connection systems.

Provisioning Manager is a product from the Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite. It provides provisioning for Cisco Unified Communications initial deployments and implementations, and then remains deployed to provide ongoing operational provisioning and activation services for individual subscriber changes. Provisioning Manager provides a single, consolidated view of subscribers across the organization. It provides a set of business-level management abstractions, which are policy-driven through the use of automation, for managing subscriber services across the Cisco Unified Communications infrastructure.

A template capability permits defining standard configurations that can be reused for new sites or location deployments. Batch provisioning permits the rollout of large numbers of subscribers at the same time.

Administrators can configure policy at various levels to determine who can do delegated management, for whom that delegation applies, and how business-level services apply to Cisco Unified Communications voice and messaging applications and which types of end users (subscribers) are permitted to order which standard services. Through the use of this policy and standard configuration approach, provisioning and activating subscriber services is greatly simplified, while retaining the overall ability to manage and provide services that make use of the underlying Cisco Unified Communications applications.

Server Requirements

Table 1-1 lists the minimum server system requirements for installing Provisioning Manager.

Table 1-1 Server System Requirements
Requirement Type	Minimum Requirements
System Processor	Server platform with one of the following processor configurations: •(Up to 1,000 phones) Single Pentium 4, 3.0 GHz. •(Up to 10,000 phones) Single Pentium 4, 3.0 GHz. •(Up to 30,000 phones) Two-system deployment, with the following configuration: –Single Pentium 4, 3.0 GHz processor, for the Web and application servers. –Single Pentium 4, 3.0 GHz processor, for the database.
Other System Hardware	•Color monitor. •CD-ROM drive. •100 Mbps NIC
Memory (RAM)	•2 GB—Up to 1000 phones. •4 GB—Up to 10,000 phones. •4 GB on each system—Up to 30,000 phones.
Swap File Space	Same as RAM, with a maximum size of twice that of RAM.
Available Drive Space	•30 GB—Up to 1000 phones. •60 GB—Up to 10,000 phones. •Two-system configuration (up to 30,000 phones); requires the following: –30 GB on the Web and application system. –80 GB on the database system.
System Software¹	Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, Standard or Enterprise Edition.

¹You must install Provisioning Manager on a dedicated system. Do not install Provisioning Manager on a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) or Backup Domain Controller (BDC).

Client Requirements

Table 1-2 lists the minimum client system requirements for installing Provisioning Manager.

Table 1-2 Client System Requirements
Requirement Type	Minimum Requirements
System hardware	•Any PC or server platform with a Pentium 4 processor greater than 1.0 GHz. •Color monitor with video card set to 24 bits color depth. •Screen resolution of 1024 x 768 dpi. Note Not every LCD projector or monitor provides a clear display at the minimum resolution. On LCD projectors and monitors, dot pitch impacts the readability of the screen.
System software	•One of the following: –Windows XP with Service Pack 2. –Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, Standard or Enterprise Edition. •One of the following –Internet Explorer 6.0 with Service Pack 2. –Mozilla 1.7.8.
Memory (RAM)	1 GB recommended.
Environment	Clients must be able to access Provisioning Manager: •From outside a firewall—Refer to the documentation for your firewall for information on how to configure client access. •Across a Virtual Private Network (VPN)—The VPN tunnel should connect the client and a VPN router or similar device. See Ports that Provisioning Manager Uses, page 2-8.

Additional Server Software

Provisioning Manager has undergone interoperability testing with the following software:

Note

Cisco Security Agent must be disabled during installation of Provisioning Manager.

For McAfee Enterprise VirusScan 8.0, you must have patch version 11 installed. Install the McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0 Patch Version 11 before installing Provisioning Manager on the system.

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The pgsql folder (if you selected the default location during installation, it is C:\CUPM\pgsql).

Table Of Contents

Prerequisites

Product Overview

Server Requirements

Client Requirements

Additional Server Software