You create cartridge projects for Oracle Communications Order and Service Management (OSM) orchestration to contain data related to the transformation, decomposition, and orchestration of orders and activities (service and network provisioning) both manual and automated to streamline the delivery of services. You can configure entities and resources from the cartridge that are included in the generated cartridge archive file, modify existing cartridge properties, and define categories.
The OSM cartridge project is the working area for the OSM orchestration configuration. Modeled data is stored in a data schema, and is used to create the order templates. You package cartridges as PAR files, which contain all configured elements and components required for deployment.
When modeling orchestration cartridge projects, refer to the following topics: