There is an alternative where you would not use CDT self service GUI, when repopulating vnf and template artifact to APPC DB. There is a RESTful API call between CDT GUI and APPC's Proxy service could be used for this need. Here are the steps that could be used by curling POST request to populate vnf/template artifact to APPC DB.
This could be useful if you have an artifact that you will be inputting to CDT on a regular basis, since this method will be much faster than going through the CDT GUI every time you want to add the artifact.
- In ONAP OOM environment, access to CDT GUI: https://XYZ:30289/index.html#/home
- Turn on debugger mode: For Firefox, click the right top hamburger menu, click "Web Developer", then click "Debugger"
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