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XDEAn Environment for Customizing

Network Management

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Agenda

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XDE Agenda

Introducing XDE

An environment for customizing Cisco Prime Products

XDE Architecture Overview

Demonstration of the XDE SDK

How customization works

XDE Extension Points

Prime Fulfillment Customization

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Introducing XDE

Toolkit for extendingCisco Prime products

Supportscustomization of:

Prime Fulfillment

Prime Diagnostics

Download XDE from

CDN today

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What XDE can do for you

Maximize value of your Prime product purchase

Tailor Cisco Prime products to your network

Enable management of your network design

Giving you the freedom to differentiate your network

Adopt new Cisco device features more quickly

Implement management according to your own schedule

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Extending Cisco Prime Products

Extensions independent of product release cycle

Customization can be done quickly, on site

Supported by the rich XDE tool set

Growing community of XDE users

Allows different business models

Cisco Advanced Services / third party integrator

Customer-led, supported by Cisco consultancyCisco product teams produce changes and patches quickly

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XDE Architecture

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XDE and PAL

XDE: eXtensible Decision Engine

Scripting environment aimed at orchestrating business logic

Graphically edited

Contains familiar flow constructs and built-in functions

XML is the native data structure

Closely integrated with PAL

PAL: Protocol Abstraction Layer

Single point of device communicationIntroduces XML interface on to various devices and protocols

Allows new device support to be added

Allows new device information to be collected / configured

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XDE Business Logic Scripting

XDE procedurescapture operationalbusiness logic

Transform use caseinto device and logicaloperations

Should be isolatedfrom different devicedialects

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PAL: Normalized device access

PAL actions capturedevice-level tasks

Parameters suppliedby XDE procedure

A rule for eachplatform variant

Each rule allows fordifferent handling

Thereby several rulescan cover differentvariants

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Cisco NMS Product

Cisco Prime Product

Standard

ScriptingLogic

Standard

DeviceAccess Logic

XDE Runtime Engine

XDE Procedures

PAL Actions

The Network

Standard

Behaviour

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Customization Methodology

Cisco Prime ProductThe Network

Custom

Device

Access Logic

CustomScripting

Logic

XDE/PAL SDK

Customized

Behaviour

Test Lab

Custom

artifacts

deployed into

product

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XDE and PAL:SDK Demonstration

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An API inside thestandard XDEprocedure

Customize scripting

without modifyingstandard logic

Developed, packagedand installed

separately

Attached at run-time

Configure interface

IP Address

Configure interfacedescription

Bring interface up

Apply QoS settingsExtension Point

Custom Extension

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XDE and PALIn Prime Fullfillment

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Cisco Prime Fullfillment

Based on IP Solution Center 6.0

Management of MPLS VPNs

Management of Carrier Ethernet and L2 VPNs

Part of Cisco Prime Suite New Brand 2012 Look and Feel

First step towards field extensibility

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Examples of Customization

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Examples of Customization

Custom deployable services can be created

These can have their own logical structure

May draw on / manipulate any source of data

Third party software / service layer integrationAdd specific Cisco hardware / software support

All device interaction is customizable:

Allows support of non-Cisco devices

This can be added as necessary by 3rd party integrators

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Download XDE SDK and start today

http://developer.cisco.com/web/xde

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