Introduction to UC Prep#

Overview#

Automate’s UCPrep Profile tool streamlines the preparation process of deployment of Cisco applications with VOSS Automate Provider and Enterprise so that administrators won’t have to repeat the same configuration tasks each time they stage or build a UC application.

The UCPrep Profile 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 more sets of static configuration data can be set up and stored.

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.

Note

Use of the UCPrep Profile tool can vary from provider to provider and even by customer within a provider.

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, the input form tab for that configuration can remain empty.

Note

Pushing data must be run at the level of the apps.

UCPrep functionality in Automate#

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Use the Action search to navigate Automate

When the UCPrep feature is exposed on an Admin profile, links to related functionality is available on menus and dashboards in Automate to perform the UCPrep tasks.

A typical workflow involves setting up one or more UCPrep profiles for use, and then pushing these to the UC applications.

  • Initial timezones can be selected before the UCPrep Profile configuration in order to simplify the management of the drop-down list of timezones in the tool.

  • The UCPrep Application User List can also be set up where these are repeatedly used and pushed to UC Applications.

  • The related Configuration Templates that drive the workflows of the configuration of the elements are grouped together for detailed customization and management.

GUI

Description

UCPrep Profile Push

Used to push profile data into the target Cisco UC Applications.

UCPrep Profiles

The VOSS data structure that contains the configurations that can be repeatedly applied to UC applications.

UCPrep Friendly Timezones

List of timezones that is a mirror of the Call Manager available time zone database. This table is used to populate the Date/Time Group portion of the UCPrep Profile.

UCPrep Application User List

Administrator configurable list of Application Users that may be pushed into a Cisco Call Manager.

UCPrep Configuration Templates

Collection of configuration templates used to provision the individual UC application elements. Note that the menu item filters the configuration templates based on the prefix “ucprep”. Should any configuration template be cloned for customization please use the prefix.