Unified Inventory Management System Administration Overview

1 Unified Inventory Management System Administration Overview

This chapter provides an overview of Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management (UIM) basic administration tasks and the tools to perform those tasks.

Overview of UIM Administration Tasks

A UIM administrator is responsible for the day-to-day tasks of maintaining and managing UIM and its users. The tasks also include managing UIM components and database.

Note:

For information about administering a UIM cloud native deployment, see "Administering a UIM Cloud Native Deployment".

You perform the following tasks as a UIM administrator:

Starting and stopping the UIM server. See "Starting and Stopping UIM" for more information.
Managing UIM security. See "Understanding UIM Security" for more information.
Monitoring and managing UIM. See "Monitoring and Managing Unified Inventory Management" for more information.
Improving UIM performance. See "Improving Unified Inventory Management Performance" for more information.
Backing up and restoring UIM data. See "Unified Inventory Management Backup and Restore" for more information.
Working with UIM sample reports. See "Working with Reports" for more information.

Directory Placeholders Used in This Guide

Table 1-1 lists the placeholders that are used in this guide to refer to directories related to the UIM application.

Table 1-1 Directory Placeholders

Placeholder	Default Directory Path	Directory Description
MW_Home	/opt/Oracle/Middleware	The location where the Oracle Middleware product was installed. This directory contains the base directory for the WebLogic Server, a utilities directory, and other files and directories.
WL_Home	/opt/Oracle/Middleware/wlserver	The base directory for the WebLogic Server core files. It is located in the MW_Home directory.
Domain_Home	/opt/Oracle/Middleware/user_projects/ domains/domain_name where domain_name is the name assigned to the domain at installation	The directory that contains the configuration for the domain into which UIM is typically installed, but it is frequently set to some other directory at installation.
UIM_Home	/opt/Oracle/Middleware/user_projects/ domains/domain_name/UIM where domain_name is the name assigned to the domain at installation	The directory into which UIM was installed. This directory contains various installation-related files.