PROCESS MAPPING DETAILS 1.1.3.2.2.3 Activate Resource

Brief Description

This process assesses and plans the approach to be undertaken for activation. It re-uses standard activation processes applicable to specific resources. It provides notifications as required if the activation activity requires a planned outage or is likely to initiate false specific resource alarm event notifications. At the successful conclusion of this activity, the status of the specific resources will be changed from allocated to activated, which means they are in-use. AM

This process assesses and plans the approach to be undertaken for activation…

In the RSDOD solution coordination of resource activation is managed by Oracle Communications Order and Service Management (OSM). The act of configuring the resource is managed by Oracle Communications ASAP and Oracle Communications IP Service Activator (IPSA).

… It re-uses standard activation processes applicable to specific resources...

OSM communicates with ASAP and IPSA to realize the activation of the resources.

Activation tasks provide integration between Oracle Communications Order and Service

Management (OSM) and either Oracle Communications ASAP or Oracle Communications IP Service Activator. When you install the OSM, OSM Integration, and Studio for Activation plug-ins in Oracle Communications Design Studio, you can model a process flow that includes one or more tasks that activate services in a network using those systems.

[DS_ModelOsmProc] Chapter 7, Section: Working with Activation Tasks, pp101-114.

… It provides notifications as required if the activation activity requires a planned outage or is likely to initiate false specific resource alarm event notifications. At the successful conclusion of this activity, the status of the specific resources will be changed from allocated to activated, which means they are in-use.

See Mandatory section.

Extended Description

Not used for this process element.

Explanatory

This process re-uses standard implementation processes applicable to specific resources. AM See Brief Description.

Mandatory

This process assesses and plans the approach to be undertaken for activation. It provides notifications as required if the activation activity requires a planned outage or is likely to initiate false specific resource alarm event notifications. At the successful conclusion of this activity, the status of the specific resources will be changed from allocated to activated, which means they are in-use. AM

This process assesses and plans the approach to be undertaken for activation…

OSM generates an orchestration plan for the order. The orchestration plan specifies the fulfillment actions required to fulfill the order; (for example, add ADSL service). It manages the sequence of those actions and manages dependencies between them.

To create the orchestration plan, OSM reads the requirements defined in each order line item in the customer order and identifies the processes and tasks to fulfill them. For example:

 OSM determines which fulfillment systems need to be involved; for example, a billing system and a service activation system.

 OSM determines which tasks need to be performed, and in which order; for example, initiate payment from the billing system, find a telephone number, and send data to the activation system.

A unique orchestration plan is generated for each order, based on the contents of the order.

An orchestration plan includes the following:

 Order items. Order items are individual products, services, and offers that need to be fulfilled as part of an order. Each item includes the action required to implement it: Add, Suspend, Delete, and so on. For example, a new order might add a wireless router.

 Order components. Order components are groupings of order items that can be processed together, such as a group of order items that need to be fulfilled by the same fulfillment system and share the same processing granularity. For example, to implement a broadband service, a group of order items to activate the service can be grouped in one component, and a group of order items to ship a modem can be grouped in another component. The process of organizing order items into order components is called decomposition.

 Dependencies. Dependencies are relationships in which a condition related to one item must be satisfied before the other item can be completed. For example, the order items related to VoIP provisioning are dependent on the order items for DSL provisioning. These

dependencies determine the sequence in which order components are processed.

[OSM_Concepts] Chapter 1, Section: How OSM Fulfills an Order, pp14-16.

…provides notifications as required if the activation activity requires a planned outage or is likely to initiate false specific resource alarm event notifications…

Notifications can be generated on the condition of an activity requiring maintenance.

[OSM_Concepts] Chapter 10, Section: About Using Order Rules in Notifications, p294.

At the successful conclusion of this activity, the status of the specific resources will be changed from allocated to activated, which means they are in-use.

In UIM, resources are managed over their entire life cycle (past, present, and future). Just as resource inventory is managed over time, the consumption of each resource is also tracked over time.

[UIM_Concepts] Chapter 4, Section: Resource Life Cycles and Statuses, p41.

Optional

Not used for this process element.

Interactions

It provides notifications as required. AM

Notifications can be generated on the condition of an activity requiring maintenance.

[OSM_Concepts] Chapter 10, Section: About Using Order Rules in Notifications, p294.

4.3.2.3 Level 3: 1.1.3.2.3 - Test Resource [Not assessed]

4.3.2.4 Level 3: 1.1.3.2.5 - Track & Manage Resource Provisioning

Table 4.67 – Level 4: 1.1.3.2.5.1 Coordinate Resource Provisioning Activity

LEVEL 4 PROCESS MAPPING DETAILS

1.1.3.2.5.1 Coordinate Resource Provisioning Activity