Object Attributes

All of the N1 Service Provisioning System software objects have many attributes that either serve to identify the object such as its name, to classify it in some way, provide revision tracking, define grouping, hiding, and so on. Some attributes are unique to a specific object while others are available for some or all of the objects.

Categories

The N1 Service Provisioning System software includes a built-in category called system, which is automatically applied to internal resources. All other categories are user definable. As with naming conventions, careful planning should go into defining categories. When category naming conventions are well thought through they become powerful tools when used with searches and views to quickly identify or select groups of objects. Categories for each object are discussed in more detail in the sections relating to each particular object.

You can use categories to classify:

• plans

• components

• resources

• comparisons

Show/Hide

Over time these objects may become obsolete. To reduce the visual clutter you can hide unwanted objects so that they are not shown by default on web pages or listed by CLI commands. It is also possible to delete most of the objects.