Changes to the Oracle Utilities Network Management System standard product software, installation, interfaces, modeling, and software configuration are considered typical and acceptable for a standard product implementation. Staying within the guidelines discussed in this guide allows a customer to follow the standard configuration from release to release and significantly reduces Oracle Utilities Network Management System migration and upgrade issues.

The intent is to allow a customer to make changes that follow the 80/20 rule; that is, a customer should be able to stick to 80% of the standard product configuration and only make the 20% configuration changes which are absolutely necessary to make the implementation successful.

There are many additional configuration changes possible and technically supported by Oracle; however, changes outside of these guidelines are considered project scope changes and redefine the project as a non-standard configuration project. This in turn creates testability and maintainability issues, as non-standard configuration may not be encompassed by our test process and can result in issues with which our customer support department may not be familiar. In addition, deviations from the product configuration mean your system will not conform as closely to standard product documentation and training material.