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How to ... Use Infrastructure Platform Automation

Infrastructure Platform Automation (IPA) automates the UC application provisioning steps for on-boarding customers using an XML configuration file that is loaded in Infrastructure Manager within the HCM-F interface.

You can read more about Infrastructure Platform Automation (IPA) in the Infrastrucure Platform Automation chapter of the Cisco HCS Customer Provisioning and Administration 9.0(1) Guide.

To use the IPA feature, you will need to call the installAndProvisionHCSApplications method of the HCS Fulfillment Web Service.

Here is an example request for installAndProvisionHCSApplications:

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You can also find a schema file in the Cisco HCS Customer Provisioning and Administration 9.0(1) Guide that you can use to validate your request.