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Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Related Documentation
• Documentation Accessibility

1 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
• 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
  • About Canvas Diagram in Business Interaction
• 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

7 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

11 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

12 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

13 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

14 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

15 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

16 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

17 Pipes

• When to Use Pipes
• Understanding Pipes
  • Understanding Pipe Relationships
    • Provides Relationships
    • Enables Relationships
    • Provides and Enables Relationships in Combination
    • About Multiple Enablement
    • Trail Pipes and Connection Pipes
  • 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

18 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

19 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

20 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

21 Custom Resources

• About Custom Network Addresses
• Custom Objects

22 Parties

• About Parties

23 Media Streams

• About Media Streams

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