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This project targets a logically centralized reference point for service and resource details serving other ONAP components and non-ONAP systems to enable fulfillment, closed loop, reporting, and other operational use cases. The existing sources of truth do not provide a cross domain view and are not designed to serve this information to multiple clients.


Scope:

    • Inventory for services and resources (core capability to be delivered in R1)

      • a central registry to create a global view of inventory and network topology

      • receives updates from various inventory masters distributed throughout the ONAP infrastructure, and persists just enough to maintain the global view.

      • As transactions occur, AAI persists asset attributes and relationships into the federated view based on configurable metadata definitions for each activity that determine what is relevant to the AAI inventory.

      • Provides standard APIs to enable queries from various clients regarding inventory and topology. Queries can be supported for a specific asset or a collection of assets. The AAI global view of relationships is necessary for forming aggregate views of detailed inventory across the distributed master data sources. 

      • metadata-driven, new resources and services can be added quickly with Service Design and Creation (SDC) catalog definitions, using the AAI model loader
    • Move to

    Active OS Graph
    • Active Open Source Graph Database  (

    e.g.Janus) (
    • R1 candidate)

    Titan
      • OpenECOMP AAI is today delivered on TitanDB in ONAP
      • TitanDB has no active Open Source community. No community updates for over 1 year
    .Technical evaluation of
      • .
      • ONAP AAI needs to move away from alignment to Titan There is risk in aligning AAI to TitanDB due to lack of support, maintenance and ongoing development.
      • Main scope for this feature is technical evaluation, selection, implementation of open source graph database options.
        • Janus good candidate (http://janusgraph.org/)
        • Janus supports Tinkerpop Abstraction implemented today in AAI.
        • Janus is an evolution of TitanDB (fork)
      • For support of Active-Active, Cassandra back-end is needed (rather than HBASE)

    • Extend Model-driven AAI Use cases (R1 candidate)

      • AAI needs to dynamically update its internal model, external API and behavior at run-time to respond to change to service and resource models, including schema changes.
      • OpenECOMP AAI today delivers a model loader capability that ingests native A&A models and generates the API. 
      • This capability needs to be extended to support:
        • Retrieve the common model artefact (TOSCA assumed) 
      • Move forward the AAI model-driven story, driven by 3 use-case requirements
      • For Resource, service and schema change.
      •  Includes definition of (model-driven) API
      • Model evolution  - as updates are made to schema, make changes to existing instance data.
      • Decomposing OXM into multiple OXM files to support:
        • Extensibility of Schema
        • Logical subdivision of modeling


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  • Track Change through Time (R2+ candidate) 
    • Tracking the Service, Resource changes across time
    • Support for point in time service/resource detail, e.g. for assurance 
    Titan

    Scalable, HA AAI (assumed covered by ONAP level project)

    • Back end needs to be HA. Need to confirm, explore.
    • Testing vs performance, throughput 
    • Scaling AAI
  • AAI Reconciliation from Network/Cloud. (dependences on Multi VIM project- assume R2 earliest)

    • Need to refresh from VIM
      • data integrity checks and reconciliation 
      • event based updates from VIM/SO/Controller
    • Different VIMs have different levels of detail.
    • MSO has this UC also.
    • Variety of different options here (VIM/SO/Controller).


Related work

Scalable, HA AAI (assumed covered by ONAP level project - Project does not yet exist for this)

  • Back end needs to be HA. Need to confirm, explore.
  • Testing vs performance, throughput 
  • Scaling AAI
  • Extend Model-driven AAI Use cases (R1 candidate)

    • Move forward the AAI model-driven story, driven by3 use-case requirements
    • For Resource, service and schema change.
    •  Includes definition of (model-driven) API
    • Model evolution 
  • Track Change through Time (R2+ candidate) 
  • Tracking the Service, Resource changes across time
  • Support for point in time service/resource detail, e.g. for assurance 

Distributed AAI (assumed covered by ONAP level project - Project does not yet exist for this)

    • How does AAI serve local orchestrator, local DCAE across large geographical  regions
    • Resource data, interim data cant be centralized - too costly.

 

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Describe the functionality to be provided by the project.  Please provide the full intended scope of the project; not just what is intended for the project's first release.

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  • Primary Contact Person - Colin Burns colin.burns@amdocs.com, Steven Blimkie Steven.Blimkie@amdocs.com
  • Names,gerritIDs, and company affiliations of the committers
  • Names and affiliations of any other contributors

    NameGerrit IDCompanyEmail
    Ming Li

    li.ming23@zte.com.cn


    Fanhu Fu

    fu.fanhu1@zte.com.cn




  • Project Roles (include RACI chart, if applicable)

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