How to Discover Cisco Prime Infrastructure by Web Services

This task describes how to discover Cisco Prime Infrastructure by Web Services using the HTTP Protocol.

This task contains the following steps:

1. Prerequisites – Set up protocol credentials

   The Cisco Prime Infrastructure discovery solution is based on the HTTP Protocol.

   For credential information, see Supported Protocols.

2. Configure the URI endpoint

   1. Add the IP address of Cisco Prime server to Data Flow Probe IP Range.

      For Range information, see "New/Edit Range Dialog Box" in the Data Flow Management section of the UCMDB Help document.

   2. Edit UriEndpointConfiguration.xml.

      1. Go to Data Flow Management > Adapter Management > Resources pane.
      2. Click the Find resource button, enter UriEndpointConfiguration.xml in the Name field, and then click the Find Next button.

      3. In UriEndpointConfiguration.xml, set the url to the Cisco Prime URL, and set the type to cisco_prime as follows:

         <uri-endpoint>
             <url><Cisco Prime URL></url>
             <type>cisco_prime</type>
         </uri-endpoint>

3. Run the discovery

   Run the following jobs in the following order:

   1. Manual UriEndpoint Discovery

   2. Cisco Prime by Web Services

   For details on running jobs, refer to "Module/Job-Based Discovery" in the Data Flow Management section of the UCMDB Help.