Introduction to UC Prep¶
Overview¶
The UCPrep Profile tool further streamlines the preparation process of deployment of Cisco applications with VOSS Automate Provider and Enterprise so that administrators will not have to repeat the same configuration tasks each time they stage or build a UC Application.
The tool provides an easy, flexible and repeatable way to define, store and load static configurations and other infrastructure setup needed in the UC applications. One or multiple sets of static configuration data can be set up and stored. The UCPREP Profile tool use can vary from provider to provider and even by customer within a provider.
The created static configuration can then be pushed to UC Apps as a “one-off”, and does not always have to be tied into a overall workflow.
UCPrep Feature Scope¶
The UCPrep tool covers the following areas of the Cisco Application Deployment:
CUCM Date Time Groups
CUCM Groups
CUCM Host Adjustment
CUCM SIP Trunk Security Profiles
CUCM SIP Profiles
CUCM Audio Codec Preferences
CUCM Application Users
CUCM Feature Control Policies
CUCM Route Filters
CUC Authentication Policies
CUC User Templates
It is not necessary to adjust all of these UC Application elements within a given UCPrep Profile. For example, if a Unity server is not part of a deployment, the CUC elements may remain un-configured. Similarly, if there is no need to adjust the hostname of a CUCM node, then the input form tab for that configuration can remain empty.
Caveats¶
The push of data needs to be run at the level of the apps.
None of the work has been done to apply required fields from the perspective of UC Apps to the data model.