Creating your inventory models

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  • Updated February 1, 2024
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    Summary of Creating your inventory models

    As an inventory catalog manager, you define metadata for each network model in the Telecommunications Network Inventory, ensuring adherence to vendor validations. This process is crucial for creating templates and generating equipment instances. The metadata, including name, model number, height, and depth, maintains consistency across all instances, ensuring supported equipment creation.

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    Key Features

    • Equipment Model Form: Create inventory models for telecommunications equipment, essential for generating network asset instances.
    • Equipment Holder Model Form: Define models for equipment holders based on manufacturer specifications.
    • Network Interface Model Form: Create records for network interfaces.
    • Interface Cards Model Form: Define models for network interface cards.
    • Physical and Logical Connection Models: Create metadata records for physical and logical connections.
    • Network Model Relationship Form: Establish relationships between network inventory models.

    Key Outcomes

    By following these steps, you can effectively manage your telecommunications network inventory, ensuring accurate representation and relationships among various models. This structured approach aids in maintaining compliance with vendor specifications, enhancing the reliability of your network asset instantiation and overall inventory management.

    As an inventory catalog manager, you can use a series of forms to define the metadata for each network model in the Telecommunications Network Inventory. During this process, you also specify the relationships between each of these models.

    Overview

    The metadata that you define in an inventory model serves an important purpose when you create an associated template or instantiate an instance of equipment. It ensures that you adhere to the validations put in place by the equipment vendor so that you don’t create a non-supported piece of equipment.
    • The metadata that the inventory models contain, such as the name, model number, height, and depth, remain consistent across all individual instances of that particular type of equipment.
    • When you generate the equipment instances for an inventory model, they all contain this standard manufacturer information.
    Note:
    To learn more about creating templates and generating network assets from your model and template records, see
    To create a comprehensive digital model of your telecommunications network, do the following tasks:
    1. In the Equipment Model form, create inventory models for your telecommunications equipment.
      • Creating an equipment inventory model is the first requirement for setting up the process to generate network asset instances when using inventory templates.
      • You create an equipment model record every time a vendor or original equipment manufacturer (OEM) introduces new equipment for your use. To learn more, see Create an equipment model.
    2. In the Equipment Holder Model form, create the inventory model records for your equipment holders. To learn more, see Create an equipment holder model.
    3. In the Network Interface Model form, create the inventory model records for your network interfaces. To learn more, see Create a card model.
    4. In the Interface Cards Model form, create the inventory model records for your network interface cards. To learn more, see Create a network interface model.
    5. In the Physical Connection Model form, create the inventory model records for each physical or wired connection. To learn more, see Create a physical connection model.
    6. In the Logical Connection Model form, create inventory model records for each logical connection. To learn more, see Create a logical connection model.
    7. In the Network Model Relationship form, define the relationships between each model record in your network inventory. To learn more, see Define a network model relationship.

    Inventory model related tabs

    After you create inventory models, the information in the following table appears on these tabs in each inventory model record.
    Table 1. Inventory model tabs
    Tab Contains
    Bandwidth Capabilities Relation between the bandwidth and the physical and logical connection models that need to be added.
    Note:
    The Bandwidth Capabilities tab is available only on the physical and logical models.
    Assets Network asset information.
    Configuration Items Configuration Item (CI) that is associated with the model.
    Model Components Components in the model.
    Vendor Catalog Items Available network assets from various vendors.
    Hardware Model Lifecycles Life cycle information about the network asset.
    Network Model Relationships Related network inventory models.