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The VNF API: Functions That a VNF Must or May Implement

<<TODO: This might be a pointer to NETCONF or ETSI specs, along with other OpenECOMP APIs. The Requirements documents above don't enumerate all functions in the API, but they might contain enough references to other documents to comprise the full description of functions that VNFs must implement. >>

OpenECOMP Common Functions that VNFs May Invoke

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VNF Attribute Definitions

<<TODO: is there a list of all possible VNF attributes? Is it already contained in the Requirements documents above?>>

Example VNFs Included with OpenECOMP

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Onboarding (Integrating and Delivering) a VNF

<<TODO: This section The forthcoming <<DocRef: User Guide>>, in its "Design" section, will explain how to add a VNF to the AAI inventory; perhaps it will point to the User Guide>>any Virtual Function (including a Virtual Network Function) to the OpenECOMP environment. Here is an outline of the steps involved:

Pre-onboarding

1. Create a tenant
2. Validate VFs
3. Generate manifest and package artifacts

Resource onboarding

1. Create a license model
2. Licensing
   1. Create a license key group [optional]
   2. Create an entitlement pool
   3. Create a feature group
   4. Create a license agreement
3. Create a Vendor Software Product
4. Update VFCs in a VSP [optional]
5. Update a VSP [optional]

VF creation and testing

1. Create a VF
2. Update a VF [optional]
3. Submit a VF for testing
4. Test a VF

Service design

1. Create a service
2. Create workflows [optional]
   1. Create a management workflow [optional]
   2. Create a network callflow [optional]
   3. Select VID inputs [optional]
3. Update a service [optional]
4. Submit a service for testing
5. Test a service
6. Assign an IP address plan

Governance approval and service distribution

1. Review a service for governance approval
2. Request service distribution
3. Distribute a service
4. Verify that the blueprint is deployed

Closed loop design

1. Design a model
2. Collector
   1. Configure Collector
   2. Configure StringMatch
   3. Configure Policy

Policy design

1. Import a policy attribute dictionary [optional]
2. Edit a policy attribute dictionary [optional]
3. Add a scope
4. Assign a scope to a user
5. Create a policy
6. Push a policy

Using VNFs

To learn how to incorporate VNFs into a Service, see the <<DocRef:: Service Design and Creation (SDC) Introductory Developers Guide>>.

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