7 About Design Studio Extension

This chapter provides examples and explanations on how to extend certain aspects of the Oracle Communications Network Integrity MSS Integration cartridge using Oracle Communications Design Studio. See Network Integrity Developer's Guide for more information. See Network Integrity Concepts for guidelines and best practices for extending cartridges.

Importing Additional Information from MSS

The Import from MSS action imports equipment and circuit information from Oracle Communications MetaSolv Solution (MSS) from specific fields in the MSS materialized views.

You can extend the Import from MSS action to:

  • Import additional information from other fields in the MSS Extract Schema.

  • Import additional information from fields outside the MSS Extract Schema.

To import additional information from the MSS Extract Schema:

  1. Identify the additional fields and the corresponding entities from the MSS Extract Schema to add to the scope of the Import from MSS action.

  2. Determine the required API mapping and the corresponding TMF814 entities for the additional information. See Network Integrity Optical TMF814 CORBA Cartridge Guide for more information.

  3. Identify the processor that models the additional TMF814 entities.

  4. Extend the Import from MSS action to import and model the additional entities.

To import additional information from outside the MSS Extract Schema:

  1. Identify the additional fields and the corresponding entities from MSS to add to the scope of the Import from MSS action.

  2. Determine the MSS Extract Schema views for the additional information.

  3. Use the custom fields in each of the MSS Extract Schema views to populate the additional fields for each entity.

  4. Extend the MSS extract process to populate the additional information in the custom fields for each entity. See "Extending the MSS Extract Process" for more information.

  5. Identify the additional fields and the corresponding entities from the MSS Extract Schema to add to the scope of the Import from MSS action.

  6. Determine the required API mapping and the corresponding TMF814 entities for the additional information. See Network Integrity Optical TMF814 CORBA Cartridge Guide for more information.

  7. Identify the processor that models the additional TMF814 entities.

  8. Extend the Import from MSS action to import and model the additional entities.