User Interfaces Release 9.1 Subscriber Provisioning Reference Manual Subscriber provisioning using XML templates Overview The SDM supports bulk subscriber provisioning using Templates. Templates can be defined using the XML language and loaded into the system џs database through the Command Template Loader tool. These templates can then be used as references for the Invoking file that allows to provision subscribers. Provisioning subscribers using Templates provide many advantages, such as the following: Simple XML provisioning commands Simple upgrade procedures Minimizes the number of requests that need to be processed to execute the different provisioning operations.
This simplifies the interface development, and provides better performance, especially over low-speed connections The next sub-sections describe in more details the use of Templates to provision subscribers, the format that you must follow when writing Templates and the tool you must use to load these Templates into the SDM џs database. Once the XML Templates have been loaded into the database, the subscribers can be provisioned with an XML Template Invoking file through a SOAP interface or the Command File Loader tool. The Tekelec Oamp Manager is a standard process running on the Tekelec SDM, which supports external provisioning and configuration management.
The Oamp Manager processes Extensible Markup Language (XML) requests as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The system can process requests through two modes: direct mode and batch mode. 1. Direct mode (through a SOAP interface or directly through a TCP socket) will accept XML Template Invoking files as well as XML Requests* and be processed immediately by the Tekelec system. For more information, refer to Provisioning in direct mode over TCP socket . 2. Batch mode (through the CFL tool) will accept a file containing XML Template Invoking files as well as XML Requests and then process the requests. This mode is useful when processing many subscribers at the same time.
For more information, refer to Provisioning in batch mode through the Command File Loader . The SDM provides an interface to external applications (EA) using OAM&P VIP (Operation, Administration, Management and Process Virtual Interface) over TCP/IP. Connection properties The External Application (EA) must first establish a TCP/IP connection with the SDM. The table below describes the parameters required to set up the connection. Table 2: TCP/IP connection parameters 21 910-6701-001 Revision A, June 2013 Connection properties Value Protocol TCP