Telecommunications Network Inventory release notes

Release version: Yokohama
Updated January 30, 2025
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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 Yokohama release.

About Telecommunications Network Inventory

  • View the geographical location and the details of your network site
  • Design and assign a configuration item using a playbook and add custom states to a Change model.
  • Define a logical composite to track and manage its CI.
  • Import and export your collection of models and templates in JSON format.
  • Enable Deny ACL to ensure the compliance with the enhanced security model.

See Telecommunications Network Inventory for more information.

Activation and other requirements

Important:
Telecommunications Network Inventory is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes.
Activation information

Install Telecommunications Network Inventory by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. For details about the installation procedure, see Install Telecommunications Network Inventory .

Upgrade information

The Yokohama release needs the Xanadu platform version to support the Design and Assign playbook feature.

Yokohama

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 Yokohama release.

What's new

Design and assign your network services
Create and configure playbooks for design and assign a configuration item. The Design and Assign playbook provides step-by-step guidance for designing a network service. Use the playbook to complete guided activities to instantiate a network inventory record.
Design and Assign function for logical connections
Use the Design and Assign playbook to instantiate a logical connection and its associated connection elements. Once each activity completes, view the circuit map to visualize the logical connection elements.
Visualization of geo map
Use the Network site map to view the geographical location of your network sites and the information such as site details, connectivity, and capacity.
Creating an inventory template for a logical composite
Instantiate a logical composite record and associated equipment and racks using a logical composite template.
Add an equipment or rack to logical composite
Add equipment or rack to a logical composite using a change model.
Remove an equipment or rack from logical composite
Remove a rack or equipment from a logical composite using a change model.
Create an equipment record by using design and assign
Create a change request for an equipment record from the All Equipment list view using the Create equipment UI action.
Import models and templates in JSON format
Create an import request to import your collection of models and templates in JSON format.
Export hierarchy of models and templates
Export the hierarchy and all related records of a model or inventory template in JSON format.
Managing your network functions
The xNF and xNF instances records are added in the Inventory menu and retained the Services menu for application services.
Create a telephone infrastructure
Supports all types of telephone numbers.