Frameworx Application: Resource Order Configuration Management

Category: (3) TAM Application Type

Application Identifier: 7.3.3.2

Maturity Level: 4

Overview

The Resource Configuration Management application is similar to the service design/ assign functions outlined elsewhere in this publication, but supports aggregate customer facing services. To explain this area in general, it is necessary to see a clear difference between services and networks /resources. Services can be viewed as being comprised of a number of building blocks - e.g. bandwidth, security, maintenance packages, SLAs, QoS, specific features e.g. voicemail.. Service Configuration management might be either the set up of network / resource components for a customer, or a class of customers of a generic service build. Service configuration can be derived from order details in addition to inherent business rules from service specifications and the service view in the Service Inventory Management application.

Functionality

The Resource Configuration Management application generates a resource plan to fulfill a resource order. This includes the following:

• Resource Parameter allocation- Allocating the right resource parameters to fulfill resource orders
• Resource Parameter reservation- Reserve the right resource parameters based on resource specification and resource inventory
• Update of Resource Inventory- Update information in the resource inventory as to configuration of specific resources
• Compose a resource configuration plan- Compose a resource configuration plan according to the required resource actions and sent to Resource Order Orchestration and/or Network Resource Activation
• Configure the specific resource and it’s parameters as appropriate
• Cross Resource Considerations- Appropriately consider cross resource dependencies as part of the above configuration activities.

Supported Business Services

(3) TAM Application Type Resource Order Configuration Management

Appears on these diagrams:

• 7.3.3 Resource Design / Assign

Frameworx Domains (Horizontal)

• Resource Domain

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