Manually creating and reviewing your network asset instances

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  • Updated February 1, 2024
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    Summary of Manually Creating and Reviewing Your Network Asset Instances

    The Telecommunications Network Inventory application allows you to manually create and review network assets, enabling you to build a digital model of your network. This capability is essential for provisioning new services, modifying existing ones, maintaining the network, and planning for growth.

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    Key Features

    • Network Site Form: Create records for locations housing network equipment.
    • Telco Equipment Form: Manage instances for telecommunications equipment.
    • Equipment Holder Form: Define holders, such as cabinets and racks, for your equipment.
    • Interface Cards Form: Create instances for interface cards used in the network.
    • Network Interface Form: Manage instances for interfaces controlling network functions.
    • Physical and Logical Connection Forms: Document wired and logical connections between assets.
    • Network Topology Creation: Visualize how network elements are organized and connected.
    • Inventory Numbering: Define VLAN or LAG numbers to manage network connections.
    • Inventory Groups: Organize collections of configuration items (CIs) for collective actions.
    • Record Management: Delete or decommission records as needed.

    Key Outcomes

    By utilizing these features, you can effectively track and manage your network assets in the Telecommunications Network Inventory application, ensuring optimal performance and planning for future network needs. This manual process allows for a detailed understanding of your network's structure and facilitates better decision-making in network management.

    A key function that you can perform in the network inventory workspace is to manually create your network assets and a digital model of your network in the Telecommunications Network Inventory application. With this information, you can provision new services, modify existing services, maintain the network, and plan the forecast for your network growth.

    Overview

    To manually create and to review your individual network inventory records, and define the relationships between each asset, you can easily access the appropriate forms from the workspace landing page. For example, you can select the Interface cards count in the Network entities by categories widget on the Network Inventory Workspace landing page to create an interface card instance.

    Note:
    As an alternative to manually creating individual network asset instances, you can instead use a more automated, and potentially less labor-intensive method to do so. To learn more, see the following:

    Process

    To manually create a comprehensive digital model of your telecommunications network, access the following forms from the Network Inventory Workspace landing page and the Lists view. To learn more, see Reviewing and updating your network inventory with the Network Inventory Workspace.
    1. In the Network Site form, create the network site records for the individual locations that house your network equipment. To learn more, see f1b3f2626d03129f81409b4bede27ed22bd1cadb.dita.
    2. In the Telco Equipment form, create the individual network asset instances for your telecommunications equipment. To learn more, see 8f1cb1bdb10ffe11831d62fe503b2a1a8879946b.dita.
    3. In the Equipment Holder form, create the individual network asset instances for your equipment holders. To learn more, see b2cfd5fdc294e4fee6e3e2572f23ddfd85b26448.dita.
    4. In the Interface Cards form, create the individual network asset instances for your interface cards. To learn more, see Define the interface card details.
    5. In the Network Interface form, create the individual network asset instances for your network interfaces. To learn more, see Define the network interface details.
    6. In the Physical connection form, create the individual network asset instances for each physical or wired connection. To learn more, see Define the physical connection details.
    7. In the Logical connection form, create the individual network asset instances for each logical connection. To learn more, see Define the logical connection details.
    8. Create the logical and physical relationships between each asset in your network inventory.
    9. Define the numbering for your virtual local-area network (VLAN) or link aggregation group (LAG) connections in the Telecommunications Network Inventory application. To learn more, see Define your inventory numbering.