Abstract: A Lifecycle Management Suite (LMS), according to one example embodiment, includes data-store, server, file-based data, and configuration tools components. APIs exist within convergent billing (CB) and customer management (CM) OSS components for manipulation of the configuration. The nature of the APIs varies between these systems and depending on the configuration item, but they provide the ability to create, update and delete or obsolete configuration items in these systems. These APIs may be, however, low level—they deal with configuration in the terms of the OSS components. The overall function of the configuration tools is to provide higher-level configuration items, such as the high-level product catalog items (that span multiple OSS components), or configuration policies and composite configuration items. The configuration server stores these higher level representations of configuration. It can be used to query the configuration in the OSS components, and to update it.

Abstract: The present inventive subject matter relates generally to the field of operational support system software and more particularly to component configuration interfaces used in operational support systems. The present inventive subject matter includes systems and methods for one more component programs operable on the system that manage configuration of software over bidirectional interfaces that allows communication between components. Such individual components are master to some configuration settings and slave to other configuration settings. In some examples with respect to a specific configuration setting, a master sends updates over the bidirectional interface to slave components according to a received configuration modification.