Managing Resource types

You can manage and analyze your network and gather information about network Resource types and their instances and how they are all connected. A Resource type is an addressable, managed node or host that is hierarchical and contain parent and child types. In a network, the Resource type has one or more instances that are identifiable with Resource ID.

• Click Administration > General > Resource management.

  You can see the Resource management page that has the Resource types available from the installed Technology Packs. You can load the resource types.

Displaying and filtering

• Display and filter the Resource types and their instances

  Field	Details
  Date period	Select a date.
  Time period	Select a time period.

• Click Load Resources to load all the available resource types and instances based on your selections.
• Click a resource type from the Resource hierarchy pane.

  Field	Details
  Resource type	Change the Resource type from the list on the right pane to load its associated instances.
  Resource type instance ID or display name Note: You have an option to show or hide the Display name.	Search for a Resource type with ID or display name. Note: A specific resource ID or name can be searched with wildcard *.

  You can see all the available child resource types for the selected resource type in the right pane.
• Click the Hide display name () icon to hide them.
  Note: The display names for the Resource types are shown in blue.
• Expand any child resource type to select an instance.
• Right-click any resource type instance, you can see four options.
  • View Resource type instance details
  • Edit Resource type instance details
  • Delete Resource type instance
  • Show history

Viewing resource type instance details

• Click View Resource type instance details to see the information of the instance.
  You can see all the details of the instance and its properties.

Editing a Resource type instance

• Click Edit Resource type instance details and edit the content and click Update.

  You can delete a Resource member or set values for the available properties.

Deleting Resource type instance

• Click Delete Resource type instance to delete the instance.

Viewing the change history that comes from audit trail information

• Click Show history to see the changes made to a resource type instance in the Resource type instance history page.
  It displays the following data for the changes that are made to a resource type instance in chronological order:

  • Timestamp

    When the changes are made?

  • User

    Who made the changes? For the changes that are made automatically by the Telco Network Cloud Manager - Performance system during the device discovery, the user is displayed as system.

  • Details

    Specific changes that are made. The changes can be deleting a resource type or instance, updating any value in the resource type instance, or inserting a new resource type instance.

  You can sort the data on Timestamp and User columns.

Creating an instance for a Resource type

• Click Create new and enter the details in Create new Resource type instance page.

  Table 1.

  Option	Details
  Resource type	Uneditable field that displays the parent Resource type. For example, interface.
  Resource type instance ID	Specify an ID for the Resource type instance. For example, 10.55.55.555_interface:<5001>
  Resource type instance properties	Set values for the required properties as required from properties that are available in the pane. Note: All the properties in the selected Resource type are displayed for the Resource type instance to be set. From here, you can set the Polling interval. The default interval is 300 seconds.
  Resource type instance members	Drag the available resource types from child Resource types on left navigation pane to the grid in Resource members pane. Note: For GenericGroup, all the available Resource types are listed to the grid in Resource type instance members pane.

• Click Save.

  You can see the Resource type instance under the Resource type in Resource management page.

Exporting the Resource types

• Select the Resource types that you want to export from Resource management page to a JSON file and click Export () and save the Resource management.json file.