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Cisco Broadband Access Center 3.8 Administrator Guide
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Chapter 3 Configuration Workflows and Checklists
Technology Workflows
Step 2 Verify whether the device record is preregistered. To do this:
• Examine the Device Details. To do this:
From the Devices > Manage Devices page, click the View Details icon ( ) corresponding to the
device. From the Device Details page:
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Check if the device settings are correct.
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Look for discovered parameters; these parameters are not displayed if the device is yet to initiate
its first contact with the DPE.
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Check the Device History log.
• Examine the RDU and the DPE log files (see Logging, page 21-2).
Step 3 Configure the device to send periodic informs to the DPE. To do this, set the PeriodicInformEnable and
the PeriodicInformInterval variables in a configuration template.
Step 4 Initiate device contact with Cisco BAC for the first time. To initiate device contact, do one of the
following:
• Initiate a connection request from the API.
• Wait for the next periodic contact from the device.
• Reboot.
Step 5 Verify the first device contact with Cisco BAC. From Device > Manage Devices > Device Details, check
if discovered properties are visible. Also, check the history log for details.
DPE Configuration Workflow
This section describes how you can provide CWMP support at the DPE, by configuring:
• CWMP services for CWMP management on the DPE.
See Configuring CWMP Service on the DPE, page 3-6.
• HTTP file services for firmware management on the DPE.
See Configuring HTTP File Service on the DPE, page 3-7.
• Configuring HTTP auth service on DPE.
• Owner identifier
• CPE password, if client authentication using unique client certificates is not enabled.
• Connection Request username. This step is optional.
• Connection Request password. This step is optional.
Optional
Connection Request Methods on the Class of Service. This step is optional.
Configuring the connection request method enables device authentication of the
autoconfiguration server. Choose from:
• Discovered
• Use FQDN
• Use IP