Provisioning Service
The NMC-RX Provisioning Service provides a programmatic application programming interface (API) for integration with the NMC-RX Element Management System application. The service requires that the NMC-RX database and the NMC-RX Config Sync Services be fully operational. The NMC-RX database acts as a repository of information, which is used by both the NMC-RX client GUIs and clients accessing the NMC-RX application through the provisioning interface.
You install the NMC-RX Provisioning Service when you install certain NMC-RX Element Management System installation sets. For information about installing the NMC-RX Provisioning Service, see NMC-RX User Guide, Vol. 2, Chapter 2, Installing and Running the NMC-RX Application. To activate the NMC-RX Provisioning Service, you must purchase a license key.
Figure 4 shows the NMC-RX Provisioning Service components.
You can access the provisioning interface either through the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) API or Java remote method invocation (RMI) API; both allow for a wide range of integration capabilities. This guide focuses on the CORBA API.
The Juniper Networks implementation of NMC-RX Provisioning Service is based on the TeleManagement Forum (TMF).814, Interface Definition Language (IDL) Solution Set model. The basics of the TMF.814 model consist of specifying an object by its object path and specifying an action to perform on this object. We combine our own proprietary IDLs with the TMF.814 standard IDLs.
The NMC-RX application lets you:
- View—View all the parameters associated with a particular object.
- List All—List all objects of a particular type related to a selected object.
- Create—Create an instance of a particular object type relative to a selected object.
- Configure—Configure or modify the parameters of a selected object.
- Delete—Delete a selected object.
For more information about the Provisioning Service, see NMC-RX User Guide, Vol. 2, Chapter 13, Using the Provisioning Service.