Does ONAP allows to orchestrate physical devices? if it does, Where can I find information about it?

 
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Someone tell me that with ONAP I can orchestrate physical devices like cisco routers, but I have already read the documentation but I can not find information on how to do it.


Can anybody help me please

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      Adrian Sanchez As an addition to the above answer, ONAP already is working on a project called SDN-R where they try and configure a PNF by using ODL and NetConf. Get here for more details: SDN-R Use cases and Objectives. You can follow a similar approach to configure your own network router/switch: It will involve changes to SDC (modelling/onboarding/instantiation), AAI and SDN-C(to use the NetConf SB). 

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        Hi Adrian - orchestration of physical networking gear has been done with custom code within SDNC (an OpenDaylight based controller which is able to mount routers via NetConf links) and SO (the central Camunda based orchestrator).  The AAI inventory system has a schema with support for physical networks (which may or may not be sufficient as is depending on your use-case). There is ongoing work to improve ONAP's support for Physical Network Functions (PNFs) - see 5G - PNF Plug and Play and CCVPN(Cross Domain and Cross Layer VPN) USE CASE for examples.

        If you're more specific about what you'd like to do you'll likely get better answers.

        Cheers,

        Roger

        1. Adrian Sanchez

          Hi Roger,

          Thanks for your answer, im trying to manage this services QoS, ACL and RollBack.

          And So, ONAP doesn't has its own SDNC? so its needs OpenDaylight controller to manage physical routers? 

          Regards

        2. Roger Maitland

          No, ONAP comes with two controllers that are built from OpenDaylight: the SDNC and APPC. Each has a lot of functionality above what already is available in ODL. The official ONAP documentation can be found at https://docs.onap.org 

          You might find the following useful: 

          but I don't know of anything "out-of-the-box" to solve your problem.

          Cheers, Roger

        3. Adrian Sanchez

          Thank you so much for your help Roger.

          Do you know if is there any getting started guide to help me to add physical router to ONAP?

          Regards.

        4. Marek Kukulski

          Please read documentation for ONAP CLI - there is example of how to add PNF to ONAP.

          https://onap.readthedocs.io/en/beijing/submodules/cli.git/docs/user_guide_pnf_on_boarding.html#create-pnf

          Regards

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