Telecommunications Network Inventory release notes
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Summary of Telecommunications Network Inventory Release Notes
The ServiceNow® Telecommunications Network Inventory application enables network planners to model and manage physical, logical, or virtual networks. The Washington DC release introduces enhancements and new features to improve network design and service assignments.
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Key Features
- Rack Visualization: View the front and rear of racks, including occupied equipment and available slots.
- Configuration Item (CI) Management: Revise, operationalize, or decommission CIs to manage changes effectively.
- Network Topology Visualization: Understand network organization through visual representations of nodes, edges, and interfaces.
- Capacity Management: Calculate the capacity of network assets, including available and occupied resources.
- Inventory Management View: Access detailed inventory information, including equipment count and availability of network resources.
- Cable Definition: Define and manage details for cables, strands, and channels within your network.
- Change Requests: Create change requests directly from the Network Inventory Workspace for modifying connections and managing Link Aggregation Groups (LAG).
Key Outcomes
By leveraging the features of the Washington DC release, ServiceNow customers can enhance their network planning and management capabilities, improve visibility of network assets, and streamline configuration management processes. Activation of the Network Inventory Advanced plugin is required to utilize the Telecommunications Network Inventory application.
The ServiceNow® Telecommunications Network Inventory application enables a network planner to model the physical, logical, or virtual network and perform design and assign services based on those network models. Telecommunications Network Inventory was enhanced and updated in the Washington DC release.
Telecommunications Network Inventory highlights for the Washington DC release
- Visualise the front and rear view of a rack with occupied equipment and shelf along with rack unit utilization KPI.
- Use Revision to modify, operationalize, and decommission a connection. Use the TNI design assign to modify connections, such as adding or removing endpoints with or without revisions.
- View a visual representation of your network topologies, including equipment, connections, and interfaces, to understand how everything is organized and connected.
- Calculate the capacity of physical entities in your network by using the capacity management feature. Check the Inventory management view to get the network inventory details such as equipment information and availability of racks, ports, and slots at a network site.
- Define your cables, strands, channels to track and manage the configuration items (CI).
See Telecommunications Network Inventory for more information.
New in the Washington DC release
- Visualization of rack
- Visualize your rack details such as placement of equipment at the front or rear, available and occupied rack slots, occupied equipment or shelf details.
- Revision, operationalization, and decommission of a Configuration Item
- Revise a CI to make changes, including modifications to related tables like attributes, connections, and relations. Operationalization enables you to merge these changes with the original CI, while decommissioning lets you retire or remove the CI from operation.
- Visualization of network topology
- Use the network topology view to see nodes (equipment), edges (connections), and termination points (interfaces) in your network to understand how they are organized and connected. You can visualize multiple topologies simultaneously using the search option.
- Capacity management
- Use capacity management to calculate and report the capacity of your network assets. This involves calculating the maximum, occupied, and available resources like ports, slots, or racks in your telecommunication network using functions and metrics.
- Inventory management view
- Check the Inventory Management view to understand inventory details, including the total count of equipment grouped by model, manufacturer, and life cycle state. Additionally, you can see the availability of racks, ports, and slots within a network site.
- Define the cable details
- Define the following network inventory instances.
- Cable - Optical fiber cables link sites with open endpoints, indicating that they don't terminate directly to equipment.
- Strand - Strands are the individual wires within the cables.
- Channel - Channelization involves sub-rating the available bandwidth into smaller bandwidths.
- Create a change request from Network Inventory Workspace
- Use Telecommunications Network Inventory (TNI) design assign to modify physical and logical connection endpoints details, as well as add or remove members of a Link Aggregation Group (LAG).
Activation information
The Telecommunications Network Inventory application is a ServiceNow AI Platform feature that is available with activation of the Network Inventory Advanced plugin (sn_ni_adv). For details, see Install Telecommunications Network Inventory .