1. System Administrator's Guide
  2. Preface

Preface

This guide contains information about administering Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management (UIM). This guide includes information about how to start and stop UIM, an overview of security for UIM, and how to manage and monitor UIM. It also includes information about improving UIM performance, backing up and restoring UIM data, and managing the UIM database.

Note:

Documentation on third-party software products is limited to the information needed to use UIM. If you need additional information on a third-party software application, consult the documentation provided by the product's manufacturer.

Audience

This guide is intended for system administrators and other individuals who are responsible for ensuring that UIM is operating in the manner required for your business.

This document assumes that you have a good working knowledge of Sun Solaris, Windows, UNIX, IBM AIX, Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c, Oracle WebLogic, and Java J2EE software.

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Related Documentation

For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management documentation set:

  • UIM Installation Guide: Describes the requirements for installing UIM, installation procedures, and post-installation tasks.

  • UIM Security Guide: Provides guidelines and recommendations for setting up UIM in a secure configuration.

  • UIM Concepts: Provides an overview of important concepts and an introduction to using both UIM and Design Studio.

  • UIM Developer's Guide: Explains how to customize and extend many aspects of UIM, including the data model, life-cycle management, topology, security, rulesets, user interface, and localization.

  • UIM Web Services Developer's Guide: Describes the UIM Service Fulfillment Web Service operations and how to use them, and describes how to create custom web services.

  • UIM API Overview: Provides detailed information and code examples of numerous APIs presented within the context of a generic service fulfillment scenario, and within the context of a channelized connectivity enablement scenario.

  • UIM Information Model Reference: Describes the UIM information model entities and data attributes, and explains patterns that are common across all entities. This document is available on the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud as part of the Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management Developer Documentation package.

  • Oracle Communications Information Model Reference: Describes the Oracle Communications information model entities and data attributes, and explains patterns that are common across all entities. The information described in this reference is common across all Oracle Communications products. This document is available on the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud as part of the Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management Developer Documentation package.

  • UIM Cartridge Guide: Provides information about how you use cartridges with UIM. Describes the content of the base cartridges.

  • UIM NFV Orchestration Implementation Guide: Provides information about the NFV Orchestration functional module and includes how to you install, use, and extend this functionality. This guide also provides reference information for the NFV Orchestration RESTful APIs.

For step-by-step instructions for performing tasks, log in to each application to see the following:

  • Design Studio Help: Provides step-by-step instructions for tasks you perform in Design Studio.

  • UIM Help: Provides step-by-step instructions for tasks you perform in UIM.