MiCloud Platform Manager

Platform Manager is an optional add-on feature that automates the initial commissioning, licensing, and configuration of Mitel applications that are managed by MiCloud Management Portal.

A Service Provider builds system blueprints that define the service offerings to customers and uses them to generate base platforms during customer provisioning. Blueprints contain application configuration, licensing, and hardware information. See About Platform Manager Blueprints for more information on blueprints.

Platform Manager supports setting up MiVoice Business Multi Instance and MiVoice Business Express instances.

The topics covered in this Platform Manager documentation are:

General set up steps

The general Platform Manager set-up steps are:

Step 1 Install a File Server and Platform Manager

Platform Manager is deployed on two servers; File Server and Platform Manager Server.

Step 2 Configure Platform Manager

The Service Provider performs a one-time configuration of Platform Manager. This includes registering MiVoice Business Multi-Instance servers or VMware vCenter, registering an AMC account, and uploading files used by the blueprints.

  1. If you are creating instances on MiVoice Business Multi Instance, manually install and license your MiVoice Business Multi-Instance server. Do this before registering it with Platform Manager. Platform Manager does not create the MiVoice Business Multi-Instance ARID.

  2. If you are creating platform instances in VMware, VMware vCenter must be licensed and available.

  3. Create a server pool for your MiVoice Business Multi Instance servers.

  4. Register the Mivoice Business Multi-Instance or vCenter servers (Configure > Infrastuctures > Register Infrastructure).

  5. Register the AMC credentials.

  6. Upload the files needed to Platform Manager. Examples of the files: MiVoice Business software images and golden databases used by the blueprints. Files are downloaded by Platform Manager to the infrastructure servers as needed.

Step 3 Build the blueprint

Build a custom blueprint that describes a group of applications, license parts, and base configurations that, together, define a service that will be offered to customers.

Step 4 Create Platform Group instances

Platform Manager uses the Blueprints to generate one or more instances of configured and licensed software. A single instance may contain multiple Mitel applications. Platform Manager creates the license ARIDs and the MiVoice Business instances. See Create Platform Group Instances for details.

Step 5 Test the new instance

The first time you build from a blueprint, test the new instance.
Hardware used in the creation of resources is obtained from pools described in the blueprint. Using Platform Manager, you can Create, View, Start, Stop, Upgrade and Delete an instance.