Instantiating your network inventory by using design and assign
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Summary of Instantiating Your Network Inventory by Using Design and Assign
Instantiating your network inventory in the Telecommunications Network Inventory application allows you to generate and validate inventory records at the site level, as well as create individual network instances from defined templates and models. This process ensures proper configuration of network instances.
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Key Features
- Create Change Requests: Document details such as reasons for changes, priorities, risks, and categories, enabling modifications to existing workflows and expansion of application capabilities.
- Execute Change Tasks: Manage tasks required to implement changes by assigning them to inventory agents, who can work concurrently on their tasks.
- Record Producers: Automatically generate change requests from assigned record producer forms, capturing necessary data for inventory allocation.
- Change Request Types: Customize the change task form based on the selected request type, which determines the corresponding form that appears for further input.
Key Outcomes
By utilizing the design and assign function, you can effectively create, review, update, and close change requests within the Telecommunications Network Inventory application. This process supports the operationalization of configuration items and ensures the successful implementation of network changes.
By instantiating your network inventory in the Telecommunications Network Inventory application, you can generate and validate your inventory records at the site level. You can also generate your individual network instances from your defined inventory templates and models and then verify that they’re properly configured.
Overview
- Create a change request by using the change model.
A change request records the details about the change, such as the reason of the change in any network, priority, risk, type of change, and change category. By using a change request, you can change any existing network workflow. You can also expand the application capabilities, request new services, modify network structures, and much more. To learn more, see Create a change request from Network Inventory Workspace.
- Execute a change task.
The list of tasks are created from a change-triggered workflow or you can create a change task manually. The change tasks help you to track and manage the various tasks required to implement the requested changes. By using a list of change tasks, you can assign a task to an inventory agent who can then execute the actions and create a configuration item. At the same time, other agents can work on their assigned change tasks. After all tasks are completed and closed by the agents, the change request can also be closed with comments. To learn more, see Create and execute a change task in Telecommunications Network Inventory.
Using a record producer in the design and assign function
If a record producer form is assigned to the selected change model, based on the provided input, a change request is automatically generated. If a record producer form isn’t assigned, you can assign a record producer. To learn more, see Assign a record producer form to a change model.
- Pass third-party application parameters to the Telecommunications Network Inventory application. The Order Management for Telecommunications and Media (OMT) integration is an example. After you assign a record producer form to the change model, the assigned form appears when you select that change model. When you complete the form, the details are filled in the change request form, and the change tasks are created automatically. To learn more, see Assign a record producer form to a change model.
- Change the type of change request. The change task form includes a Request type field that describes the type of change request. Based on your selection, a form appears on the Task Attributes tab. By assigning a record producer form to the request type field of the change task, you can determine which form appears when you select a type. Based on the selected Request type field, a form appears under the Task Attributes tab. After filling out the fields in the form, the change request form updates. To learn more, see Assign a record producer form for a request type of a change task.