Cisco Prime is used to monitor and manage network devices like switches, WLPs, and wireless access points. For example, if I have a building with four floors, I can all the access points and sitemap to Cisco Prime, so the next engineer who is working when I'm not available has a clear picture of how the site is configured. There's no need to physically go to the site. He can test everything remotely.
I work for a telecom company on the network service delivery team, and 1,000 engineers on my team use Cisco Prime. There are different teams like monitoring, LAN, wireless, etc. About 10 percent of engineers in my organization use Cisco Prime.
As engineers, we cannot physically monitor all the devices. We cannot go and roam all the floors of every building. For example, say there is a city with four or five companiesthere. An engineer cannot run around to check that all the devices are up and stable.
With Cisco Prime, we can go to the monitor tab and check the physical devices. It shows you a list. For example, it will say that there are 10 APs in critical mode at the Las Vegas building. At the New York City site, there are five devices. You can dispatch the engineers to troubleshoot the problem. There's no need to send someone to check every floor.
If there is a new deployment, you don't need to physically check the old setup. We only need to add the sitemap to Cisco Prime, input the model numbers of the devices, and verify where each device is located, so we can upgrade.