Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Related Documentation
• Documentation Accessibility

1 About Unified Inventory Management

• Introducing UIM
  • UIM and Service Fulfillment
• UIM System Architecture
  • Core Platform
  • Functional Modules
  • Technology Packs
• About Entities and Entity Types
• About the UIM Information Model
  • Understanding Products and Services
  • Understanding Resources
  • Understanding Common Business Entities
  • Understanding Common Patterns
  • Understanding UIM Definitions
    • About Specifications, Data Elements, and Characteristics
    • About Rulesets

2 UIM User Interface Overview

• Opening the UIM User Interface
• The UIM Main Window
  • Tasks Panel
  • Work Areas
    • Working with Tables
  • Menus
• Using the UIM Help

3 Design Studio Overview

• About Design Studio
• About Projects and Cartridges
• Understanding the Design Studio Workbench
  • About Views
  • About Editors
• Designing Entity Specifications
  • Understanding Specification Relationships
  • Extending Specifications with Rulesets
• Working with Characteristics
  • Characteristic Labels
• Design Studio Specification Example
• Deploying Cartridges into UIM

4 Life Cycles and Statuses

• Resource Life Cycles and Statuses
  • Resource Inventory Statuses
  • Resource Assignment Statuses
• Service Life Cycles and Statuses
• Configuration Life Cycles and Statuses
• Status Examples
• Telephone Number Statuses
• Business Interaction Life Cycles and Statuses

5 Understanding Core Functionality

• About Search
  • Searching by Using Web Services
• About Configurations
  • Understanding Configuration Specifications
  • Configuration Example
  • Maintaining Configurations in UIM
• About Capacity
  • Defining and Measuring Capacity
    • Configuring Measurement Type
    • Configuring Units of Measure
    • Configuring Capacity Type
  • Configuring Capacity
    • Configuring Capacity Provided
    • Configuring Capacity Required
• About Consumption
  • Understanding Assignment
    • About Shared Consumption of Entities
  • Understanding Entity References
  • Understanding Resource Reservations
  • Understanding Conditions
• About Involvements
  • Creating Involvements in UIM
• About Topology
  • About Topology Nodes
  • About Topology Edges
  • Topology Example
  • Aggregating and Expanding Topology Data
• About Entity Identification

6 Products and Services

• Understanding Products and Services
• About Products
• About Services and Service Configurations
• Creating a Service and a Service Configuration in UIM
• Service Topology

7 Equipment and Devices

• Understanding Equipment Modeling
• Understanding Logical Devices
  • Understanding Device Interfaces and Sub-Interfaces
    • Associating Logical Devices with Network Locations
    • Associating Rate Codes to Device Interfaces
    • About Interface-Bound Cross-Connects
  • Logical Device Configurations
  • Understanding Logical Device Accounts
• Understanding Physical Resources
  • Configuring Equipment Specifications
    • Understanding the Visualization Tab
    • Configuring Equipment Holder Specifications
    • Configuring Card Specifications
    • Configuring a Shelf Specification
    • Configuring a Rack Specification
  • Adding Ports and Connectors
    • Configuring Physical Port Specifications
    • Configuring Physical Connector Specifications
  • Manually Configuring Equipment in UIM
  • Configuring Physical Device Specifications
• Associating Physical Devices to Logical Devices

8 Networks

• Understanding Networks
• Understanding Network Entities
  • Selecting the Network Topology
  • Selecting the Ring Type
  • Selecting the Protection Type
• Understanding Network Nodes
  • Limiting the Types of Entities Represented by a Network Node
• Understanding Network Edges
  • Limiting the Types of Entities Represented by a Network Edge
• Network Configurations
• Building Networks in UIM
• Map View

9 Working with Pipe Connectivity

• Connectivity Overview
• About Pipe and Connectivity Entities
• Understanding Pipes
  • Understanding Pipe Relationships
    • Provides Relationships
    • Enables Relationships
    • Provides and Enables Relationships in Combination
    • About Multiple Enablement
  • Understanding Pipe Configurations
  • Understanding Pipe Directionality
  • About Connectivity Gaps and Cross-Connects in Pipe Enablement
• Understanding Capacity and Signal Structure
  • Understanding Packet Capacity
  • Understanding Signal Structures
    • Simple and Complex Signal Structures
      • Simple Signal Structures
      • Complex Signal Structures
• Modeling Connectivity in Design Studio and UIM
  • Defining Pipe Specifications
  • Creating Pipe Entities in UIM
  • Understanding Pipe Models
    • Cable/Pair Model
    • Packet Facility Model
    • TDM Facility Model
  • Designing and Implementing Pipe Configurations
    • Defining Pipe Configuration Specifications
    • Implementing Pipe Configurations in UIM
  • Configuring and Implementing Pipe Termination
  • Configuring and Implementing Child Pipes for the Cable/Pair Model
    • About Pipe Termination and Rate Codes
  • Configuring Pipe Capacity
    • Configuring Capacity for Packet Facility Pipes
    • Configuring Capacity with Signal Structures
      • Viewing Signal Structure Information in UIM
    • Changing the Capacity of Existing Pipes
• Enabling Pipes
  • Enabling Pipes Manually
  • Enabling Pipes Automatically with Path Analysis
    • About Path Analysis Criteria
    • About Path Analysis Results
    • Understanding Path Analysis Modes
  • Viewing Enablement Information
    • Viewing a Pipe Enablement Visualization

10 Working with Channelized Connectivity

• Understanding Channelized Connectivity
• Creating Channelized Connectivity Entities
  • About Channelized Connectivity Technologies
  • About Rate Codes
    • About Rate Code Compatibility
  • About Connectivity Functions
  • About Connectivity Locations
  • About Connectivity Identifiers
    • About Connectivity Identifiers for Channels
• About Termination
  • Device Interfaces and Channel Termination
• About the UIM Signal Architecture
  • E-Carrier Signal Architecture
  • SONET Signal Architecture
• Configuring Connectivity Capacity
• Enabling Channelized Connectivity
  • About Design Versions
  • About Connectivity Gaps
  • Assigning Transport
  • About Interconnections
    • About Cross-Connects
    • About Jumpers
  • Connectivity Example

11 Custom Network Addresses, Telephone Numbers, and Media Streams

• About Custom Network Addresses
• About Media Streams
• About Telephone Numbers

12 Common Business Entities

• About Business Interactions
  • Business Interaction-Enabled Entities
  • Understanding the Business Interaction Life Cycle
  • Understanding Business Interaction Contexts
  • Understanding Business Interactions with External Systems
  • Configuring Business Interaction Specifications
  • Working with Business Interactions in UIM
    • Deleting Entities with Associations
• About Inventory Groups
  • Creating Inventory Groups in UIM
  • Create Inventory Group Hierarchies
• About Places
  • Geographic Coordinates
  • Understanding Location-Type Place Entities
    • Location Hierarchy
  • Understanding Address-Type Place Entities
    • Configuring Address Selections
  • Understanding Address Ranges
  • Understanding Site-Type Place Entities
    • Place Configurations
  • Associating Places with Other Entities
• About Property Locations
  • About Property Addresses
    • About Validating Addresses
  • About Geographic Coordinates in Property Locations
  • About Network Locations
    • About Network Entities
• About Parties
• About Roles
  • About Role Types
  • About Role Specifications and Entity Types
  • Adding Characteristics to a Role Specification
• About Custom Objects

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