Kuwaiba Open Network Inventory

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1 Kuwaiba Open Network Inventory Version 0.3 [ ] Roadmap and Product Definition Please visit for documentation, latest updates and upcoming events

2 Change History Responsible Description Date Reviewed by First draft May 13 th 2011 Iván Claros Corrections from feedback Last quarter adjustments June 20 th 2011 November 26 th 2011

3 License This document is published under the terms of a license Creative Commons by-nc-sa. You can find details about it at Kuwaiba Server and Client are licensed under EPL v1. You can find the whole text of this license at Disclaimer Kuwaiba uses third-party components licensed under compatible licenses (LGPL, BSD-like). You can find a complete list at the project's web page. The present document is subject of changes depending on staff decisions and does not represent any contractual agreement.

4 Product Definition Kuwaiba Open Inventory System (from now on only Kuwaiba ) aims to be an enterprise class network inventory system based entirely on a FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) philosophy, which means that protects, respects and promotes the four major freedoms stated by the FSF (Free Software Foundation): The freedom to run the program, for any purpose. The freedom to study how the program works, and change it. The freedom to redistribute copies. The freedom to distribute copies of the modified versions to others. By enterprise class is understood the capability of managing thousands of elements and a high transactional load while ensuring the data availability, integrity and confidentiality. As part of the OSS (Operation Support Systems) ecosystem, Kuwaiba provides north and southbound interfaces to integrate it to other applications based on common and open industry standards. As an inventory system, Kuwaiba aims to provide a comprehensive set of features focused on managing the information related to technological assets as well as the relationships between them at physical, logical and administrative levels. Current Status The following features are provided currently: Object oriented data model easily extensible at design and run time (more than 200 business classes supported so far, including support for optical networks). Support for Physical connections and views Supports creation, update and deletion objects (network elements, facilities, services). Support for Hierarchical views and element detail views Object detail editor Attribute editor. User management and basic groups support Tools to manage the containment hierarchy to specify what element can be parent of what other elements (cities into states, switches into racks, etc). Custom queries (graphical query designer) Basic model documentation capabilities. The current stable version is 0.4 alpha.

5 1st Qt st Qt 2013 Short term (4 months) Support for a dynamic data model (modifiable at runtime) based on a NoSQL backend replacing the current RDBMS and development of a persistence abstraction layer reference implementation according to the general platform architecture [1]. Close the possible gaps in the tools used to create physical connections (cable, fiber, DWDM) and review the underlying model. Mid term (4 8 months) Support for contextual help and basic integration with a content management system (i.e. a wiki) in order to provide a dynamic documentation capabilities. Enhance the graphical query module. Provide a GIS-oriented view for objects that need to be geospatially referenced. Long term (8-12 months) Generic southbound interface based on text parsing and a pluggable mechanism to integrate custom interfaces (bulk upload and synchronization). Reporting tool. Support for triggers and custom notifications. 1st Qt th Qt 2013 Long term (12-20 months) Support for packet switching networks (logical model). Support for SDH and NG-SDH networks (logical model). Enhance custom views 4th Qt 2013 Long term (20-24 months) Support for 2G/3G/4G mobile networks.