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Re: Provision
Provision is ASA on steroids. It is used for system turnup and installation. If all you are doing is system administration on one or two switches, it will probably not really benefit you. If you deal with a lot of Avaya switches and you have a large amount of changes every week, it will do you some good.
The downside is that it is installed on one computer and cannot be moved to another without Avaya assistance. It is also licensed from Avaya (and will only work with a valid license) plus the license is renewable every quarter. If you are buying this from someone other than Avaya you will need to buy the computer it is on also and then it will only work for the remainder of that license period.
The learning curve is somewhat steep and Avaya has a course you can buy that will teach it to you. But if you need the program, once you learn it you will wonder how you ever got along without it. When I worked for an Avaya Business Partner, Provision was a program I used probably every day.
I do not use the program now because even though I deal with five G3r's and three G3i's there is not enough programming to justify spending $hundreds every quarter.
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Marty
Retired Avaya DSIC tech
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