10 Working with Network Specifications
In Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management (UIM), a network represents a collection of other related entities, such as equipment, logical devices, and other networks.
You define Network specifications to model various types of networks based on topology and technology. In addition to the Network specification itself, you can define two related types of specifications:
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Network Node specifications define specific nodes in the network. In UIM, you can associate network nodes with other entities, such as logical devices, device interfaces, flow interfaces, equipment, places, and parties.
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Network Edge specifications define connections between nodes in the network. In UIM, you can associate network edges with Connectivity entities and Pipe entities that represent connections between entities represented as nodes.
When working with Network specifications, see the following topics: