tubbz-alt / automating-service-provisioning-with-epnm-api

This project focuses on the Northbound API capability of Cisco's EPN manager software where user can achieve various tasks by simply automating the process. In this project, we have focused on bulk TDM service provisioning with Cisco's NCS4200 platform. This will ease the process of creating hundreds of services together where it would take a lot of time compared to using EPNM's GUI. Similar concept can be applied to other Cisco platforms like XR routers (NCS5500, ASR 9K) with the features supported in EPNM.

Automating-Service-Provisioning-with-EPNM-API

This project has been developed to show the Northbound API capability of Cisco’s Evolved Network Programmable Manager (EPNM). EPNM has a good set of REST APIs and RESTConf APIs to achieve several tasks through third party interfaces (scripts, tools, etc.). This project focuses on bulk service provisioning task across the network using EPNM’s RESTConf API.

The primary platform we have chosen for this project is Cisco's NCS4200 IOS-XE platform for TDM service provisioning.

Later, we also have included EPL service provisioning with minimum required options as an additional example for Cisco IOS-XR routers (NCS5500 and NCS9K).

This has been done to provide a positive mindset to the users that the concept of the project can be utilized for various network platforms supported in EPNM.

Summarized Work-Flow:

User Guideline

For a detailed guideline, please read the user manual included in the UserDocument folder. https://github.com/CiscoSE/Automating-Service-Provisioning-with-EPNM-API/tree/master/UserDocument

Enviroment Setup

For this project Python3.7.6 has been used. Please, follow the intructions given below to setup your environment.

For Ubuntu: https://developer.cisco.com/learning/lab/dev-ubuntu/step/1

For Windows: https://developer.cisco.com/learning/lab/dev-win/step/1

For Mac: https://developer.cisco.com/learning/lab/dev-mac/step/1

Python Libraries required for the project

Before using the script, please, install the following libraries:
click,
requests,
pandas,
urllib3,
xlrd,
wxPython

Command: “pip3 install {library-name}”

Contributors

Tahsin Chowdhury [email protected]
Rex Spell [email protected]