What Does the CPE Wan Management Protocol Do?
The basic idea behind CWMP is computer-aided management and configuration of Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). The CWMP protocol helps you to reduce costs for management and support of your devices. It’s main purposes are: • configuration of devices • monitoring and diagnostics of devices • firmware upgrade managementThese tasks are accomplished by Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) between an Auto-Configuration Server (ACS) and a CPE. As transport protocol for the RPC calls HTTP (HTTPS) is being used. Typical situations in which you may want to make use of CWMP are: • automated initial configuration of CPE, as soon as a customer plugs in a device • assisted configuration or re-configuration of a device on any kind of error • re-configuration or factory resetting of a device in case of an urgent problem • rebooting a device • upgrading the firmware of a device (or a whole bunch of devices)Those atomic tasks can be used and mixed up to realize complex workflows on ACS side (e.g. a device sho
