User's Manual Part 1
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Either of the following modes is available for the Prizm server, subject to licensing:
• BAM-only functionality, which manages only
• authentication, bandwidth service plans, and VLAN profiles of SMs.
• authentication of Powerline LV modems.
• Full Prizm functionality, which manages attributes for all elements and
authentication of SMs and Powerline LV modems.
One difference between a service plan (or VLAN profile) and a configuration template
that has the identical set of attributes is that the former is a long-term association
whereas the latter is a one-time push to the element. When a service plan or VLAN
profile is modified, the change is automatically applied to all elements that have the
association. Another difference is that a configuration template cannot overwrite any
values that a service plan or VLAN profile has set in an element.
5.7.5 NorthboundInterface
In Release 1.1 and later, Prizm provides three interfaces to higher-level systems:
• a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent for integration with a
network management system (NMS).
• a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) XML-based application programming
interface (API) for web services that supports integration with an operations
support systems (OSS) such as a customer relationship management (CRM),
billing, or provisioning system.
• console automation that allows such higher-level systems to launch and
appropriately display the Prizm management console in GUI that is custom
developed, using the PrizmEMS™ Software Development Kit (SDK), which
Cyclone provides for this purpose.
Together these interfaces constitute the Northbound Interface feature. Prizm server
administrator tasks and GUI developer information are provided in the PrizmEMS™
Software Development Kit (SDK). This SDK also describes the how to define new
element types and customize the Details views.
All other features of the Prizm product are supported by the dedicated document Last
Mile Gear Cyclone Prizm User Guide and associated release notes.
5.8 LICENSEMANAGEMENT
Under the original licensing regime for Cyclone networks, licenses were permanently tied
to the Media Access Control (MAC) address of the equipment that was licensed or that
used the licensed feature. Thus, they were not transferable. Under server-based license
management, for some functionalities, Cyclone offers licenses that
• float upon demand within the network.
• are tied to only the osted (MAC address) of the license management server for
which they were ordered.