Unified Inventory Management (UIM): Using and Configuring

The benefits of this course are seeing how a service is created in Studio for Unified Inventory Management (UIM) and then installed into UIM. In Studio for UIM, Oracle communications service creation environment, students identify and create entities, specifications, and characteristics. The students experience importing, building, and cleaning projects in Studio. Students learn to navigate in UIM and in Studio. Students learn how to create service entities in UIM. They learn how a service is created, modified, and deleted in UIM.
The target audience for this course is professional services team members who may have knowledge in a particular service domain and are involved in using a developer toolkit for service creation. The professional services person may be a skilled Java programmer. The professional services tem member may have the job title of configuration manager, technical consultant, or functional implementer.
A UIM configuration manager is generally a business/requirements analyst role. This user is responsible for gathering requirements and creating, updating, and testing service fulfillment configurations using Studio and UIM. This user has an understanding of the business aspects of the configuration required to model end-to-end service fulfillment resources. This user does not require IT technical or system administrator skills but may use Java developer skills.
The technical consultant role would benefit taking this course. This is generally a technical role. This user is responsible for taking service fulfillment configurations created by the UIM configuration manager and designing and implementing the technical aspects of the solution. This could involve creating interfaces to 3rd party systems or designing and implementing technical configurations proposed by the UIM configuration manager. An Oracle Order and Service Management (OSM) technical consultant may take this course if they want a deep understanding of UIM.
The course is also for advanced UIM users wanting to configure UIM for everyday business users. It is also fitting for a functional implementer who wants to model a product, a service, and the resources in UIM. It is also good for a UIM end user who wants to gain an understanding of the behavior of the entities in UIM.

Learn To

• View how UIM manages products, services, and resources
• Describe how terms are used in Studio and UIM
• Add, modify, and delete entities in UIM
• Understand how specifications are created and installed into UIM

Audience

• Business Analysts
• Functional Implementer
• Developer
• Sales Consultants
• Technical Consultant

Course Topics Create a service in UIM UIM information model UIM system architecture and components Studio for UIM Install cartridges in to UIM Create a service in Studio and install into UIM Extending UIM Create hardware and physical devices in Studio and install into UIM Create logical devices in Studio and install them into UIM Create networks in Studio and install into UIM Create products and services in Studio and install them into UIM Review of User Interface Configure connectivity and signal structure in Studio and install those specifications into UIM to create pipe entities The MPLS VPN technology pack
Course Objectives

• List the components of UIM
• Describe the key patterns and concepts that are supported in UIM
• Describe the high level steps for installing UIM
• Identify the parts of the UIM user interface
• Describe terminology used in UIM and Studio
• Describe how to retrieve specifications in Studio
• Describe how to retrieve installed specifications that were created in Studio
• Describe how to create specifications in Studio
• Describe how to install the new specifications created in Studio into UIM
• Describe how to create entities in UIM, based on the specifications
• Describe extensibility of UIM using Studio
• Describe UIM Web services basics
• Describe how to create a service in Unified Inventory Management (UIM)