PROCESS MAPPING DETAILS 1.1.3.2.2.1 Configure Resource

Brief Description

This process assesses and plans the approach to be undertaken for configuration. It re-uses standard configuration and processes applicable to specific resources. It configures and reconfigures specific resources, including customer premises equipment if part of the resource provider offering. It provides notifications as required if the configuration activity requires a planned outage or is likely to initiate false specific resource alarm event notifications. It updates the information contained in the resource inventory as to the configuration of specific resources and their status. AM

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

In the RSDOD solution coordination of resource configuration 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 configuration and processes applicable to specific resources. It configures and reconfigures specific resources, including customer premises equipment if part of the resource provider offering. It provides notifications as required if the configuration activity requires a planned outage or is likely to initiate false specific resource alarm event notifications. It updates the

information contained in the resource inventory as to the configuration of specific resources and their status.

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 configuration. It configures and reconfigures specific resources, including customer premises equipment if part of the resource provider offering. It provides notifications as required if the configuration activity requires a planned outage or is likely to initiate false specific resource alarm event notifications. It updates the information contained in the resource inventory as to the configuration of specific resources and their status. AM

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

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.

…re-uses standard configuration and processes applicable to specific resources…

OSM communicates with ASAP and IPSA to realize the configuration 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 an automated process flow that includes one or more tasks that activate services in a network using those activation systems.

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

…configures and reconfigures specific resources, including customer premises equipment if part of the resource provider offering…

ASAP and IPSA perform the actual configuration of the resources. Both ASAP and IPSA are activation systems but each has a distinct role. ASAP is used to configure simple services on resources,

whereas IPSA is used for complex services. For both systems, cartridges are used to generate the configuration commands/operations for the resources.

ASAP cartridges are discrete software components developed for ASAP. An ASAP cartridge provides specific domain behavior on top of the core ASAP software. This domain behavior includes a part of, or all services on a network element (NE), element management system (EMS), or network

management system (NMS). In this guide, all of these systems are collectively called NEs.

An ASAP cartridge is not a standalone component, but it operates in conjunction with the core ASAP software. Cartridges can be designed for a specific vendor, technology, and software load, and elements within each network cartridge can be reused in the creating of common or mixed service model cartridges. For more information, see "About Service Modeling".

An ASAP cartridge can be used to configure ASAP to provision the following:

 NEs from a specific vendor (for example, Nokia).

 Technologies, such as HLR and GSM.

 Services that are supported on an NE, such as Wireless, Optical for VoIP, IPTV, or high speed internet.

[ASAP_Cartridge] Chapter 1, Section: About ASAP Cartridges, p14.

The Network Processor uses Activation Cartridges that include XML-based vendor specific and service-specific definitions for a number of device types. Oracle Communications offers several cartridges that support a wide range of services across various vendors and OS versions.

The Network Processor component is also responsible for distributing configuration to devices. The integrated Network Processor-Cartridge architecture enables the Network Processor to manage a large range of device types.

Each cartridge is a software unit that provides configuration commands applicable to a family of vendor devices and operating systems, and a service (for example, QoS). Cartridge units apply to

specific subsets of devices and operating systems in a vendor family.

[IPSA_Concepts] Chapter 1, Section: Network Processor and Cartridges, p16.

…provides notifications as required if the configuration 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.

…updates the information contained in the resource inventory as to the configuration of specific resources and their status…

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.

Table 4.65 – Level 4: 1.1.3.2.2.2 Implement Resource

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