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Title and Copyright Information
Preface
Audience
Related Documentation
Documentation Accessibility
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About Unified Inventory Management
Introducing UIM
UIM and Service Fulfillment
UIM and Network Functions Virtualization Orchestration
UIM System Architecture
Core Platform
Functional Modules
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
About Cartridges
2
UIM User Interface Overview
Opening the UIM User Interface
The UIM Main Window
Navigation Section
Pages
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 Cycle and Statuses
Resource Inventory Statuses
Inventory Statuses for Resources Outside Business Interactions and Work Orders
Inventory Statuses for Resources in Business Interactions and Work Orders
Inventory Statuses for Pipes and Connectivities in Business Interactions and Work Orders
Resource Assignment Statuses
Telephone Number Assignment Life Cycle and Statuses
Resource Reference Statuses
Service Life Cycles and Statuses
Configuration Life Cycles and Statuses
Status Examples
Business Interaction and Engineering Work Order Life Cycles and Statuses
Project and Activity Life Cycles and Statuses
Activity Life Cycle and Status
Activity Item Life Cycle and Statuses
Change Item Life Cycle and Statuses
About Impact Items
5
Core Functionality
Searching
Searching for Pending Resources
Searching by Using Web Services
Configurations
Understanding Configuration Specifications
Configuration Example
Maintaining Configurations in UIM
About Multiple Pending Configurations
Adding and Removing Resources
Inserting a Configuration Version Between Two Others
Changing the Start Date of a Configuration Version
Completing a Configuration
Canceling a Configuration
Disconnecting a Service with Multiple Pending Configurations
Capacity
Defining and Measuring Capacity
Configuring Measurement Type
Configuring Units of Measure
Configuring Capacity Type
Configuring Capacity
Configuring Capacity Provided
Configuring Capacity Required
Consumption
Assignment
About Shared Consumption of Entities
About Assigning Pending Resources
Understanding Entity References
Resource Reservations
Conditions
Involvements
Creating Involvements in UIM
Topology
About Topology Nodes
About Topology Edges
Topology Example
Aggregating and Expanding Topology Data
Entity Identification
6
Planning
Business Interactions
Business Interaction-Enabled Entities
Understanding the Business Interaction Life Cycle
Understanding Business Interaction Contexts
Understanding Activity Contexts
Understanding Business Interactions with External Systems
Configuring Business Interaction Specifications
Working with Business Interactions in UIM
Deleting Entities in Business Interactions
Engineering Work Orders
Creating Engineering Work Orders
Deleting Engineering Work Orders
Projects
Using Projects for Network Maintenance
Using Projects for Managing Business Interactions and Engineering Work Orders
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Managing Workflow
Workflow Overview
Workflow-Related Specifications in Design Studio and Entities in UIM
Designing Workflows
About Activities and Checklists
Working with Activities in the Activity Summary Page
Managing Activities
Assigning Activities
Updating Workflows
Adding Activities
Modifying Dependencies
Completing and Reopening Activities
Monitoring Progress
Associating Resources with Activities
About Assigned Activities
Monitoring Activities by Workgroup
About Email Notification
Generating a Bill of Material
Exporting a Bill of Materials to XML
Workflow Example
Background
Planning the Workflow
Managing the Workflow
Working On Assigned Activities
Completing the Engineering Work Orders and the Project
8
Resource Entity Management
Inventory Groups
About Inventory Group Types and Resource Pools
Creating Inventory Groups in UIM
About Inventory Group Hierarchies
Network Address Domains
9
Services
About Services
Creating a Service and a Service Configuration in UIM
Service Topology
About Network-Oriented Services
High-Level Steps for Creating a Network-Oriented Service
Automated Validations and Configurations During Network Service Creation
About Products
10
Geographic Location
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
Property Locations
About Property Addresses
About Validating Addresses
About Geographic Coordinates in Property Locations
About Service Locations
About Network Locations
About Network Entities
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Equipment and Devices
Understanding Equipment Modeling
Understanding Logical Devices
About Logical Device Hierarchies
Understanding Device Interfaces and Sub-Interfaces
Associating Rate Codes to Device Interfaces
About Interface-Bound Cross-Connects
Cloning and Duplicating Logical Devices
About Flow Interfaces
Logical Device Configurations
Understanding Logical Device Accounts
About Logical Device Account Configurations
About Associating Logical Device Accounts with Logical Devices
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
Associating Devices and Equipment with Network Locations
Associating Logical Devices with Network Locations and Network Entity Locations
Associating Equipment and Physical Device Entities with Network Locations
Understanding Network Location Code Propagation
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Networks
Understanding Networks
About Network Technologies
About Network Types
About Packet Virtual Networks
About Service Networks
About Network Topologies
SONET and SDH Network Attributes
Selecting the Ring Type
Selecting the Protection Type
Understanding Network Nodes
Understanding Network Edges
Limiting the Types of Entities Represented by a Network Edge
Building Networks in UIM
Map View
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Connectivity Overview
About Connectivity
About Connectivity Locations
About Connectivity Technologies
About Rate Codes
About Rate Code Compatibility
About Connectivity Functions
About Connectivity Identifiers
Location-Based Connectivity Identifiers
Service-Based Connectivity Identifiers
Custom Connectivity Identifiers
About Termination
About Connectivity Enablement
Working with Connectivity Entities in UIM
Designing Connectivity
About Connectivity Design Visualizations
About Design Versions
About Connectivity Gaps
Assigning Transport
About Interconnections
About Cross-Connects
About Physical Jumpers
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Channelized Connectivity
About Channelized Connectivity
About Channel Identifiers
E-Carrier, J-Carrier, and T-Carrier Channel Identifiers
SONET Channel Identifiers
SDH Channel Identifiers
WDM Channel Identifiers
Terminating Channels
Device Interfaces and Channel Termination
About the UIM Signal Architecture
E-Carrier Signal Architecture
SONET Signal Architecture
Wavelength Division Multiplexing Signal Architecture
Optical Transport Network Signal Architecture
OTN Example
Configuring Connectivity Capacity
Terminating and Enabling a Channelized Connectivity
About Virtual Connectivity
Virtual Termination
Maintaining Channelized Connectivity and Network Resources
Project Activities Page Overview
About Change Items and Impact Items
About Connectivity Design Versions and Grooming and Rehoming
About Grooming
Grooming Scenario: lnter-Facility
Grooming Scenario: Intra-Facility Grooming for Ethernet Over SDH
Grooming Scenario: 2:2 Inter-Facility
About the Grooming User Interface
About Rehoming
About the Rehoming User Interface
Inserting and Removing Nodes in Networks
Node Insertion User Interface Overview
Node Removal User Interface Overview
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Packet Connectivity
About Packet Connectivity
About Flow Identifiers
Assigning Flow Identifiers to Connectivities and Connectivity Segments
Q-in-Q Stacking
VLAN ID Translation
Performance Parameters
Enabling Packet Connectivity
Enabling Packet Connectivity with Channelized Connectivity
Enabling Packet Connectivity with Packet Connectivity
Packet-Over-Packet Termination Rules
Packet Enablement Scenarios
Ethernet Packet Connectivity Enabled by Ethernet Packet Connectivity
UNI Connectivity Enabled by T-Carrier Channels
INNI Connectivity Enabled by SDH Channels
SDH Network Infrastructure
Creating and Designing the INNI Connectivity
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Service Connectivity
About Service Connectivity
Service Connectivity Examples
Service Configuration-Controlled Service Connectivities
Service Connectivity in Multipoint Services
Service Connectivities in Point-to-Point Services
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Pipes
When to Use Pipes
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 in Pipe Enablement
Understanding Capacity and Signal Structure
Understanding Packet Capacity
Understanding Signal Structures
Simple and 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
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
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IP Address Management
Understanding IP Address Management
About Partitioning IP Address Space
About Joining IP Subnets
About Managing IP Addresses
About Creating IP Networks
Specifying a Network Name
Specifying an IP Address
Specifying an IP Domain
Specifying a Network Owner
About IPv6 Address Types
About Creating IP Addresses
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Roles
About Roles
About Role Types
Auto-Creating Roles in UIM
About Role Specifications and Entity Types
Adding Characteristics to a Role Specification
About Network Targets
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Telephone Numbers
About Assigning Telephone Numbers to Services
Managing Geographies and Specialized Numbers
About Telephone Number Formats
Managing Telephone Number Blocks
Telephone Number Aging
Organizing Telephone Numbers
Telephone Number Portability
Reserving and Redeeming Telephone Numbers
Telephone Number Reporting
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Custom Resources
About Custom Network Addresses
Custom Objects
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Parties
About Parties
23
Media Streams
About Media Streams
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