Add an equipment to rack or cabinet

Add equipment to a rack or cabinet using design and assign function in the Telecommunications Network Inventory application. By adding the equipment to rack, you can fulfill a customer order request.

Before you begin

Role required: sn_ni_core.inventory_admin, sn_ni_core.inventory_agent

Procedure

1. Navigate to Workspaces > Network Inventory Workspace.
2. Select the list icon (), and then go to Changes > All.
3. Select the New button.
4. Select Add Equipment to Rack/Cabinet.
5. Select Next.
   A change request is created.
6. On the Details tab, fill in the fields.
   For a description of the field values, see Change request and change task forms.
7. Select Save.
   A change task is created.
8. Open the change task.
9. On the Task Attributes tab, fill in the fields.
   To learn more, see Task attributes in Add Equipment to Rack or Cabinet form.
10. Select Submit.

Result

The equipment record is added in the Rack view. You can edit the rack. The relationship or affected CIs are also updated with the datacenter or site information.