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TOP prio for Patrick Reichel – Minimum means: the smallest possible solution to address the topic to let the customer create it's own contracts while connecting a fresh modem on the CMTS. Goal should be to have a basic demo running in March.

Work flow goes like

Unregistered CMs + CPEs

Customer A buys Cable Modem. Connects CM to our system (CMTS + NMS Prime) – without prior registration in NMS Prime.

•  Afterwards the CM gets online in a new unregistered pool.
•  Afterwards the CPE get a IP in a private unregistered pool – default route should be NMS Prime Server. The pool will only have access to NMS Prime Server

Landing Page

•  Customer A open browser and is automatically pushed towards NMS Prime Landing Page – this should be solvable with a captive portal approach like using firewalld and http – e.g. https://projectzme.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/captive-portal-using-php-and-iptables-firewall-on-linux/
  Firewalld redirects all HTTP traffic to its on IP maybe with special port. On this port is a apache is listening with a default redirect to /nmsprime/otc/Contract/create

Contract create – /nmsprime/otc/Contract/create

A simple create page which allows the Customer to setup there contract page

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•  Customer can create his own contract

Parse Modem

Create some kind of php function or command which will

• parse client (private NAT)  IP like

  Code Block
  language php
  $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] or $_SERVER['CLIENT_IP_ADDRESS'] or ...

  
  

• and parse in dhcpd lease file the "option agent.remote-id", which is the CM MAC of the client who is adding the contract

Straight fast forward Adding

For a first MVP just provide a artisan or native php function, which will. Maybe this could run in observer after otc/contract/create

•  check if new Modem MAC is not forgiven now – otherwise show error
  
•  Create the new Contract in NMS Prime DB (maybe add some kind of special flag in DB to easily parse OTC added contracts later)
  
•  Create the modem behind new Contract
•  Add a Item with open ERZNET tarif (1M free)
•  show success message to user and advice to restart modem and PC.
  
•  wait 10s and call forced reboot of modem
  

Note on Workflow:

ERZNET will daily walk through the new openERZNET auto added contracts and delete non-sense Contracts. We will see how long this will work!

Testing VM

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