Preface

This guide is intended for system administrators, database administrators, developers, and integrators, who work with UIM.

For more information, see the following documents in Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management documentation set:

• UIM Installation Guide: Describes the requirements for installing UIM, installation procedures, and postinstallation tasks.

• UIM System Administrator's Guide: Describes administrative tasks such as working with cartridges and cartridge packs, maintaining security, managing the database, configuring Oracle Map Viewer, and troubleshooting.

• UIM Concepts: Provides an overview of important concepts and an introduction to using both UIM and Design Studio.

• UIM Developer's Guide: Explains how to customize and extend many aspects of UIM, including the data model, life-cycle management, topology, security, rulesets, user interface, and localization.

• UIM Web Services Developer's Guide: Describes the UIM Service Fulfillment Web Service operations and how to use them, and describes how to create custom Web services.

• UIM API Overview: Provides detailed information and code examples of numerous APIs presented within the context of a generic service fulfillment scenario, and within the context of a channelized connectivity enablement scenario.

• UIM Information Model Reference: Describes the UIM information model entities and data attributes, and explains patterns that are common across all entities.

• Oracle Communications Information Model Reference: Describes the Oracle Communications information model entities and data attributes, and explains patterns that are common across all entities. The information described in this reference is common across all Oracle Communications products.

• UIM Cartridge Guide: Provides information about how you use cartridges and cartridge packs with UIM. Describes the content of the base cartridges.

• UIM NFV Orchestration Implementation Guide: Provides information about the NFV Orchestration functional module and includes how to you install, use, and extend this functionality. This guide also provides reference information for the NFV Orchestration RESTful APIs.

For step-by-step instructions for performing tasks, log in to each application to see the following:

• Design Studio Help: Provides step-by-step instructions for tasks you perform in Design Studio.

• UIM Help: Provides step-by-step instructions for tasks you perform in UIM.

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