Provisioning provider

Name and Alternative Code of the provider

Provisioning Protocol: The protocol of the provider you would like to set up and use.

Life Cycle State: A 'Not Effective', state denotes that commands will not be sent to the CA/OTT platform.

End Point: The endpoint used for communicating with provisioning provider

User Name & Password: Credentials used to login to the

Character Set Encoding: The encoding that will be used by the Web Services. It defaults to UTF-8 if not specified

Distributors are used to relate services and devices (installed items) of a subscription to the provisioning provider. Multiple distributors on a subscription represent multiple viewing points with same or different services available from each device. For example, in a pay-tv subscription, two distributors can represent

• the decoder and channels available in a household's living room
• the decoder and channels available in the bedroom

Create the distributors which can be provisioned through the provider. At least one provisioning distributor is required for a provider to be 'Effective'. 

ADD a new distributor and provide the related information in the modal

Name & Alternative Code for the provisioning distributor.

Defines a list of services which can be distributed by the distributor. This is used as a filter once the distributor is selected when adding subscription services to a subscription.

Two options are supported:

• All Provisioned Services: If this option is selected, then all the services provisioned by the provider can be distributed by the distributor.

• Specific Provisioned Services: If this option is selected, then only the services included in the list will be allowed to be distributed by the distributor. 

Minimum and Maximum optional and mandatory service restrictions control the number of services that can be added to the distributor.

Restrictions Per Service Type: Define minimum and maximum number of services allowed to be added to the distributor, from specific service types

Restrictions Per Physical Good Type: Define minimum and maximum number of installed items allowed to be added to the distributor, from specific physical good types

Service dependencies define services, service types, physical goods or physical good types that must be added to the distributor, if enabled.

At least one service mapping is needed for an 'Effective' Provider.

Service: Termed and usage services that can be provisioned by the provider.

CA ID: The unique ID that identifies the service at the CA/OTT platform

A list of devices which are required for provisioning through the provider. For example, a decoder and a smartcard, or just a decoder, or a modem. Depending on the provider you are setting up specific device type may be mandatory.