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Administration Portal Overview
Administration Portal offers service providers a convenient way to set up and manage resources, customers, and availability of network services through a graphical user interface (GUI).
When you use Administration Portal, you are actually creating and managing objects used by the following APIs in the Cloud CPE Centralized Deployment Model and Cloud CPE Distributed Deployment Model.
- Cloud CPE Tenant, Site, and Service Manager API, which manages customers (also called tenants), manages customer sites, and maps each customer’s network services to the appropriate gateway resources, such as the Layer 2 access interfaces and routing instances.
- Identity and Access Manager API, which manages identifiers and roles for customers and users.
- Network Service Orchestration API, which manages network services and communicates with Contrail OpenStack, the virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM).
- Contrail OpenStack API, which manages network points of presence (POPs), service chains, and virtual machines (VMs) that contain service chains.
You can also set up and manage the Cloud CPE Centralized Deployment Model and Cloud CPE Distributed Deployment Model through API calls, either manually or from your operational support systems and business support systems (OSS/BSS). This method is more complex, especially if you use your own OSS/BSS, in which case you must perform development and integration work. Use of Administration Portal is particularly beneficial for companies who require a turnkey solution and do not want to expend effort on developing programs to set up and manage the deployment through APIs. Even if you plan to use your own OSS/BSS systems to set up and manage the Cloud CPE Centralized Deployment Model and Cloud CPE Distributed Deployment Model in a production environment, Administration Portal can prove useful for demonstrations and trials of the deployment.
