1. Modeling Inventory
  2. Working with Configurations
  3. Adding Configuration Items
  4. Associating Tags with Configuration Items

Associating Tags with Configuration Items

Tags are keywords that you can use to categorize data elements and instances of entities. Tags help you filter and search for data elements that are associated with specific Oracle Communications applications. See “Working with Tags" for more information.

You can create your own tags and associate your tags to configuration items that you add to Service, Place, Logical Device, Logical Device Account, and Network entity Configuration specifications. Associating tags with configuration items that you add to Configuration specifications enables UIM users to search for tags using the Tags Search page. At run time, the tag is visible (on the Configuration Summary page) for all instances of entities that were created from the Configuration specification. These tags are also visible in the getConfiguration and getConfigurationDifferences web service operations, which are included in the Service Fulfillment web service. The getConfiguration web service operation response contains the tag information from the request.

Note:

You cannot associate tags with configuration items that you add to Pipe Configuration specifications.

To associate a tag with configuration items:

  1. Create a new tag in a Model project.

    When creating the new tag, complete the optional step to define the Build Directives attribute with the system-delivered Generate Inventory Runtime Tag tag. See “Creating Tags" for more information.

  2. Create a dependency between the Model project and the Design Studio for Inventory project in which you intent to save the Configuration specification.

    See “Managing Project Dependencies" for more information.

  3. Open the Configuration Specification editor for the entity with which you want to associate the tag.

  4. On the Details tab, select a configuration item.

  5. Click the Tags tab.

  6. Click Add.

    A list of tags appears. The list includes all user-defined tags with a Build Directives attribute defined as Generate Inventory Runtime Tag.

  7. Select a tag from the list and click OK.

    The tag appears on the Tags tab and is now associated with the configuration item.

  8. Deploy the Design Studio for Inventory Cartridge project to the run-time environment.

    UIM users can search for tags using the Tags Search page. At run time, the tag is visible (on the Configuration Summary page) for all instances of entities that were created from the Configuration specification. See UIM Help for more information.