Table of Contents
- Title and Copyright Information
- Preface
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1
Getting Started with Unified Inventory Management
- Understanding UIM Terminology
- Working with the UIM User Interface
- Searching
- Viewing Recent Items
- Navigating to the Landing Page from a Page
- Working with Favorites
- Working with Personalization
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Working with Inventory Entities
- Creating Entities
- Working in Entity Summary Pages
- Managing Entity Life Cycles
- Working with Entity Hierarchies
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Working with Entity Configurations
- Working in Configuration Summary Pages
- Adding the First Version of a Configuration to an Entity
- Adding Additional Configuration Versions
- Working with Multiple Pending Configurations
- Managing Configuration Version Life Cycles
- Opening Configurations
- Managing the Configuration Hierarchy Display
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Working with Configuration Items
- Adding Configuration Items
- Assigning Entities to Configuration Items
- Referencing Entities to Configuration Items
- Assigning Resources Automatically
- Viewing, Entering, and Changing Characteristics
- Viewing Tags on Configuration Items
- Renaming Configuration Items
- Changing the Entity Assigned to or Referenced from a Configuration Item
- Removing Configuration Items
- Configuration New Page
- Validating Entities and Entity Configurations
- Working with Visualizations and Diagrams
- Working with Resource Reservations
- Working with Conditions
- Working with Custom Involvements
- 3 Working with Roles
- 4 Working with Resource Management Entities
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5
Working with Planning Features
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Working with Business Interactions
- Understanding Business Interaction Content
- Creating a Business Interaction
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Defining the Content of a Business Interaction
- Setting the Business Interaction Context
- Creating New Inventory Entities from the Business Interaction Summary Page
- Adding Configuration Versions and Design Versions to Business Interactions
- Removing Configuration Versions and Design Versions from Business Interactions
- Modifying Entities from the Business Interaction Summary Page
- Deleting Items from Business Interactions
- Transferring Items Between Business Interactions
- Filtering Specifications while Searching Business Interactions
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Working with the Canvas Diagram Page of a Business Interaction
- Adding Existing Entities from the Search by Entity Section
- Opening the Canvas Diagram Page
- Creating Entities Using the Canvas Diagram Toolbar
- Changing the Canvas Diagram Layout and View
- Adding Preferences to Canvas Diagram
- Opening Summary Pages for Entity Nodes
- Creating Child Entities
- Editing Entity Nodes
- Isolating Entity Nodes
- Deleting Entity Nodes
- Managing the Business Interaction Life Cycle
- Viewing XML Data for Business Interactions with External Systems
- Business Interaction - New Page
- Business Interaction - Information Page
- Business Interaction Summary Page
- Business Interactions - Bulk Edit Page
- Canvas Diagram Page
- Working with Engineering Work Orders
- Working with Projects
- Generating Bills of Materials
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Working with Business Interactions
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Managing Workflows and Assigned Activities
- Managing Workflows
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Managing Activities
- Assigning Users to Activities
- Assigning a User to Multiple Activities at a Time
- Inserting Activities into Workflows
- Associating Resources with Activities
- Searching for Telephone Number Blocks from within Activities
- Updating the Progress of Activities
- Starting Activities
- Completing Activities
- Reopening Activities
- Working with Checklists
- Creating Entities and Performing Entity-Specific Tasks in Bulk
- Activity Summary Page
- Working with Assigned Activities
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Working with Services and Service Configurations
- About Service Configurations
- About Service and Service Configuration Topology
- Viewing the Service or Service Configuration Topology
- About Network-Oriented Services
- Service - New Page
- Service - Information Page
- Service Summary Page
- Service Configuration Information - New Version Page
- Service Configuration Page
- Service Configuration Information Page
- 8 Working with Parties
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Working with Equipment and Devices
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Working with Equipment
- Creating an Equipment Range
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About Equipment Hierarchies
- Opening the Equipment View Page
- Working with Equipment Hierarchy
- Selecting Entities in the Equipment View Page
- About Equipment Visualizations
- Opening an Equipment Visualization
- Clearing an Equipment Visualization
- Moving Shelves in an Equipment Visualization
- Adding Equipment to an Equipment Hierarchy
- Adding New Equipment to an Equipment Hierarchy
- Adding Physical Ports and Connectors in an Equipment Hierarchy
- Moving Equipment within an Equipment Hierarchy
- Copying Equipment in an Equipment Hierarchy
- Removing and Deleting Child Entities from an Equipment Hierarchy
- Editing Entity Information in an Equipment Hierarchy
- Refreshing Entities in an Equipment Hierarchy
- Associating Equipment to Network Locations
- Associating Equipment to Physical Devices
- Deleting Physical Device Associations from Equipment Entities
- Viewing Network Associations
- Equipment - New Page
- Equipment Range - New Page
- Equipment - Information Page
- Equipment - Bulk Edit Page
- Equipment Summary Page
- Equipment View Page
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Working with Logical Device Entities and Logical Device Configurations
- Creating a Range of Logical Devices
- Working with Logical Device Configurations
- Including Logical Devices in Logical Device Hierarchies
- Cloning Logical Devices
- Working with Device Interfaces
- Working with Flow Interfaces
- Adding Cross-Connects Between Device Interfaces
- Associating Logical Devices to Network Locations and Network Entity Locations
- Associating Logical Devices to Service Locations
- Associating Logical Devices to Physical Devices
- Removing Physical Device Associations from Logical Devices
- Associating Logical Devices to Media Streams
- Removing Media Stream Associations from Logical Devices
- Viewing and Adding Accounts from a Logical Device Summary Page
- Logical Device - New Page
- Logical Device Range - New Page
- Logical Device - Information Page
- Logical Device - Bulk Edit Page
- Logical Device Summary Page
- Logical Device - Clone Page
- Device Interface - Information Page
- Device Interface - Bulk Edit Page
- Device Interface Summary Page
- Logical Device Configuration Information - New Version Page
- Logical Device Configuration Information Page
- Logical Device Configuration Page
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Working with Logical Device Accounts
- Working with Logical Device Account Configurations
- Creating Ranges of Logical Device Accounts
- Logical Device Account Range - New
- Adding or Changing Device Associations for Existing Accounts
- Logical Device Accounts - New Page
- Logical Device Accounts- Information Page
- Logical Device Account Summary Page
- Logical Device Account Configuration Information - New Version Page
- Logical Device Account Configuration Information Page
- Logical Device Account Configuration Page
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Working with Physical Devices
- Working with Ports and Connectors
- Maintaining Equipment in Physical Device Hierarchies
- Associating Physical Devices to Network Locations
- Associating Physical Devices with Logical Devices
- Removing Logical Device and Physical Device Associations
- Physical Device - New Page
- Physical Device - Information Page
- Physical Device - Bulk Edit Page
- Physical Device Summary Page
- Physical Port - Information Page
- Physical Port Summary Page
- Physical Connector - New Page
- Physical Connector - Information Page
- Physical Connector Summary Page
- Mapping Device Interfaces to Physical Ports and Connectors
- Adding Physical Jumpers Between Device Interfaces
- Adding Physical Jumpers Between Ports
- Physical Jumper Page
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Working with Equipment
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Working with Places and Property Locations
- Working with Places and Place Configurations
- Working with Property Locations
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Working with Connectivity
- Creating Connectivity Entities
- Connectivity Details Page
- Editing Connectivity General Information
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Designing Connectivity
- Using the Connectivity Design Tab
- Working with Paths
- Managing Design Versions
- Terminating a Connectivity
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Working with Gaps
- Accepting Gaps
- Removing a Gap Acceptance
- Manually Assigning Connectivity to a Gap
- Automatically Resolving Gaps by Using Gap Analysis
- Automatically Resolving Gaps by Using Path Analysis
- Deleting a Connectivity Segment
- Unassigning Transport From a Design
- Adding an Interconnection
- Viewing Transport Details
- Viewing Network Details
- Assigning Flow Identifiers in the Connectivity Design Tab
- Working with the Connectivity Design Visualization
- Configuring Capacity of Channelized Connectivity
- Viewing Channels in a Channelized Connectivity
- Viewing Riders in a Packet Connectivity
- Viewing Information About Consumption of Packet Connectivity with Riders
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Working with Pipes, Capacity, and Signal Structure
- Creating Pipes
- Configuring Existing Pipes for Secondary Enablement
- Working with Termination Points
- Working with Child Pipes
- Working with Pipe Configurations
- Enabling Pipes
- Setting Pipe Capacity and Signal Structure
- Creating Pipes and Channels for CWDM and DWDM
- Viewing Pipe Information in Map View
- Pipe Connectivity - New Page
- Pipe - Information Page
- Pipe Summary Page
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Working with Networks and Network Visualization
- Creating Networks
- About Network Configurations
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Designing a Network in the Network Topological View
- About Network Visualization Page
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Working with Topology Graphs in
Network Visualization Page
- Searching and Filtering Nodes or Edges in Network Visualization Page
- Saving the Network Visualization Page as a Graphic File
- Changing Topology Graph Settings in Network Visualization Page
- Changing Display Settings
- Adding Advanced Settings
- Using Custom Layout
- Performing Actions on the Topology Graph in Network Visualization Page
- Overview tab
- Using Zoom settings and Mini-Map in Network Visualization Page
- Using the Collapsible Legend in Network Visualization Page
- Viewing Maps in Network Visualization Page
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Working with Nodes in Network
Visualization Page
- Adding a Node in Network Visualization Page
- Associating a Node with an Entity in Network Visualization Page
- Associating a Node with a Place in Network Visualization Page
- Viewing Node Information in Network Visualization Page
- Opening Entity Summary Pages from Network Visualization Page
- Editing Node Information in Network Visualization Page
- Editing Entity Information from Network Visualization Page
- Disassociating an Entity from a Node in Network Visualization Page
- Removing a Node from a Network in Network Visualization Page
- Isolating, Collapsing and Expanding a Node in the Network Visualization Page
- Disabling Links of a Node in the Network Visualization Page
- Viewing Links of a Node in the Network Visualization Page
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Working with Edges in Network
Visualization Page
- Adding an Edge to a Network in Network Visualization Page
- Associating a Pipe or Connectivity to an Edge in Network Visualization Page
- Viewing Edge Information in Network Visualization Page
- Editing Edge Information in Network Visualization Page
- Editing Pipe or Connectivity Information from Network Visualization Page
- Removing an Edge from the Network in Network Visualization Page
- Working with Subnetworks in Network Visualization Page
- Opening the Network Topological View Page
- Saving the Network Topological View as a Graphic File
- Working with Nodes
- Working with Edges
- Automatically Creating Nodes and Edges for Pipes and Connectivities
- Adding Flow Interfaces to Packet Virtual Networks
- Adding Connectivities to Packet Virtual Networks
- Assigning Flow Identifiers in the Network Topological View
- Unassigning Flow Identifiers in the Network Topological View
- Working with Child Networks
- Adding Specifications and Identifying Information to Nodes and Edges
- Removing Nodes and Edges from a Network
- Using the Map View
- Network - New Page
- Network - Information Page
- Network Summary Page
- Network Topological View Page
- Validating and Completing a Service or Packet Virtual Network in the Network Topological View
- 14 Working with Flow Identifiers
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15
Working with IP Addresses
- Working with IP Networks
- Working with IP Subnets
- Working with IP Addresses
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Working with Telephone Numbers
- Creating Telephone Numbers
- Working with Telephone Number Bulk Operations
- Telephone Number - New Page
- Telephone Number - Information Page
- Telephone Number - Bulk Edit Page
- Telephone Number Summary Page
- Telephone Number Operation Page
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Working with Operational Analysis
- Evaluating Outage Impacts
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About Running Path Analysis in the Search Page
- Running Path Analysis in the Path Analysis Search Page
- Selecting Networks for Path Analysis
- Selecting Pipe/Connectivity Specification for Path Analysis
- Topological View of Path Analysis
- Path Analysis Search Page
- General Information Tab
- Topological View Tab of Path Analysis Search Page
- Map View Tab of Path Analysis Search Page
- 18 Working with Custom Entities
- 19 Working with Media Streams
- 20 Working with the Inventory Topology
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UIM NFV Orchestration
- Working with Orchestration Requests
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Working with Network Services
- Creating Network Services
- Instantiating Network Services
- Terminating Network Services
- Adding VNFs to Network Services
- Removing VNFs from Network Services
- Adding Endpoints to Network Services
- Removing Endpoints from Network Services
- Adding PNFs to Network Services
- Removing PNFs from Network Services
- Canceling Network Services
- Network Service - New Page
- Network Service Summary Page
- Network Service Edit Page
- Working with Virtual Network Functions
- Working with Virtual Deployment Units
- Working with Descriptors
- 22 Working with Products
- 23 Administrative Tasks