1. Modeling Inventory
  2. Working with Pipe and Capacity Specifications
  3. Working with Pipe Configuration Specifications
  4. About Pipe Configuration Specifications

About Pipe Configuration Specifications

A pipe configuration can include one instance of each of the following four types of configuration items:

  • Termination (Originating): Defines the kinds of resources on which the pipe's originating termination point can terminate. Associating a specification option with the configuration item limits the resources from which the pipe can originate to instances of the selected specifications.

  • Termination (Terminating): Defines the kinds of resources on which the pipe's terminating termination point can terminate. Associating a specification option with the configuration item limits the resources on which the pipe can terminate to instances of the selected specifications.

  • Transport: Defines the kinds of pipes by which the pipe can be enabled. The pipe specifications that are selected as specification options for this item are used in Path Analysis to find the available pipe instances to enable the pipe in its end-to-end connectivity path.

  • Intermediate Node: Defines a resource, such as logical device, through which the pipe's connectivity must route. This is a child configuration item that can be created under the Transport item. A specification option associated with this item is used in Path Analysis to find an instance of the specified resource through which the pipes that enable the configured pipe must be routed.

Note:

Although Design Studio allows you to include more than one of each of these types of configuration items in a pipe configuration, doing so causes errors in UIM.