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PNF PRE-ONBOARDING & ONBOARDING OVERVIEW
Descriptor, Artifacts and Package Delivery | PNF Package Pre-onboarding | ONAP onboarding process, PNF Package onboarding | ONAP Design Time activities | ONAP Run Time activities | |
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| WHEN | PNF delivery time | NF validation Activities | Onboarding Activities | ONAP Design Time Activities | ONAP Run Time |
| WHO | Vendor | Technology Specialist | Technology Specialist Asset Manager | Service Designer Operations Specialist | Operations Specialist |
| WHAT | Descriptor, Artifacts and Package delivery | PNF Package | PNF Package, PNF Descriptor PNF Onboarding | ONAP Common Information Model SDC Data Model 5G Service Definition | 5G Service Instantiation PNF Instance A&AI PNF Instance |
| ETSI NFV reference | SOL001 PNFD SOL004 Package | SOL004 Package | SOL001 PNFD, SOL004 Package | - | - |
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PNF PRE-ONBOARDING & ONBOARDING DUBLIN WORK
| DELIVERABLE | DESCRIPTION |
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PNF Onboarding Package § VNF SDK input § SDC input | Producing and collecting NF artifacts for a NF package. Vendor provided. Dublin Priorities are the PNFD, NF Registration YAML File, PM Dictionary. |
VNF SDK: Enhance VNF-SDK to be able to validate onboarding PNF package. Optionally Create a PNF onboarding package through VNF-SDK. | |
PNF Onboarding Package § VNF SDK output § SDC input | This is the output of the VNF-SDK. The SDK optionally can extend a package and provide as output a new onboarding PNF package the SDC will use. PNF Onboarding Package, output of the VNF SDK (as optional step) must be compliant and aligned to the PNF package onboarding format provided by the vendor as both can be used as input to SDC for the ONAP onboarding package. |
| Onboarding the Package: SDC Enhancements need to be made to onboard the PNF Package and enter into the SDC Catalog | |
| SDC PNF CSAR | The CSAR package provided by SDC as output of the onboarding process. This work will include the PNF artifacts into CSAR package. |
Proper Distribution & Reception of SDC CSAR: The SDC CSAR package is distributed by SDC to ONAP Run-Time Components. Chances need to be made to verify the reception of the CSAR and use of the CSAR by the Components. We need to insure that the distribution of PNF artifacts does not break the ONAP platform components. (for example SO looked for Heat Templates, which were only applicable for VNFs). Some ONAP RT assume that any package notification only have VNF artifacts. In practice, there is only the subscription of artifacts (listeners) and the distribution of the PNF package, we need to make sure this behaves correctly and that there are no errors. Pre-integration checks and validation that the distribution of PNF artifacts will not cause side effects. Want to insure that FM & PM artifacts are distributed properly. PM dictionary would be used in DCAE & PM Mapper. FM Meta Data is new, and from the start (what is new in Dublin) is that it is being used for both VNFs and PNF. |
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PACKAGE DELIVERY: ARTIFACTS & PRODUCTS
| PACKAGE DELIVERY | ONBOARDING PROCESS | DESIGN TIME | RUN TIME |
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| NF Descriptor | NF Descriptor Model | SDC Data Model | A&AI PNF Data model, PNF instance |
VES event registration file/ PM dictionary | artifact | SDC Catalog | Run time Catalog |
| Informational Artifacts | artifact | SDC Catalog | Run time Catalog |
Configuration Models and Files, (including Ansible Playbooks) | artifact | SDC Catalog | Run time Catalog |
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PACKAGE DELIVERY: PACKAGE CREATION (VENDOR PROVIDED)
The NF Onboarding Package could contain the following things:
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The following diagram illustrates a basic PNF package and some suggested file structure and content in the directories.
The PNF package is expected to be a CSAR package.
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PNF PRE-ONBOARDING: VNF-SDK ENHANCEMENTS
VNF SDK is (optionally) responsible to validate the PNF package provided by the vendor.
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In Dublin timeframe, the focus is the onboarding package mapping in the internal package and AID model.
DESIGN TIME ACTIVITIES: SDC ONBOARDING PACKAGE
SDC takes the Vendor provided package and adds some files or changes files and meta data according to SDC procedure.
The following diagram represents SDC change
DESIGN TIME ACTIVITIES: SDC ONBOARDING PACKAGE MAPPING INTO INTERNAL PACKAGE
SDC is used to map the Vendor provided onboarding package & PNF descriptor into the Internal Package & Internal (Platform) Data Model
DESIGN TIME ACTIVITIES: SDC ONBOARDING PACKAGE INTO SDC CATALOG
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