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- fine-grained authorization library and service; one of the OpenECOMP ONAP Common Services
AAI = A&AI: Active and Available Inventory (component of OpenECOMP ONAP runtime)
Real-time views of Resources, Services, Products, Customer Subscriptions, and their relationships
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APPC (formerly APP-C): Application Controller (part of OpenECOMPONAP)
- handles the life cycle management of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)
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BPMN: Business Process Model and Notation (Wikipedia) or Business Process Management Notation (OpenECOMPONAP.pdf)
- graphical representation for specifying business processes
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CMA: Change Management Application (within OpenECOMPONAP)
Congress:
- Policy as a service (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Congress)
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DCAE: Data Collection, Analytics and Events (component of OpenECOMP ONAP runtime)
DDoS: Distributed Denial-of-Service attack (Wikipedia)
DG: Directed Graph
- in OpenECOMPONAP, it is the XML output of DG Builder. Directed graphs are used to encapsulate service logic.
DG Builder: Directed Graph Builder
- This is an OpenECOMPONAP-customized version of Node-RED. It is a graphic editor used to generate the resulting XML files that are fed into SLI.
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- the OpenDaylight community GUI (DLUX documentation)
- typically not needed for OpenECOMP ONAP development
DMaap: Data Management as a Platform
- a set of common services provided by OpenECOMPONAP, including a Message Router, Data Router, and a Data Bus Controller
DME: Direct Messaging Engine (common service within OpenECOMPONAP)
DNS: Domain Name System
Docker:
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EELF: Event and Error-Logging Framework (common service within OpenECOMPONAP)
EMS: Element Management System (Wikipedia)
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- Java-based agent that runs on the same host as a Vector Packet Processor (VPP); manages the VPP by translating NETCONF/YANG or RESTCONF (link)
- used by vFirewall demonstration service within OpenECOMPwithin ONA
HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protococol
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- for vendors and 3rd parties to develop Virtual Network Functions and other Resources using OpenECOMP ONAP and a network cloud
IDS: Intrusion Detection System (Wikipedia)
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- Service container library and framework that is provided as part of Common Frameworks open source, separately from OpenECOMPONAP
JSON: JavaScript Object Notation
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- the ETSI-defined framework for the management and orchestration of all resources in the cloud data center. See the SDX Central description and the ETSI MANO page
- ETSI's MANO does not include Controller and Policy components, as OpenECOMP ONAP does
- ETSI's MANO resource description does not include complete meta-data for lifecycle management of infrastructure as well as VNFs (OpenECOMP ONAP does)
MD-SAL: Model Driven Service Abstraction Layer
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MR: Message Router (a Common Service of OpenECOMPONAP)
MOP: Method of Procedure
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MSO: Master Service Orchestrator (component of OpenECOMP ONAP runtime)
- automates activities, tasks, rules and policies needed for on-demand creation, modification or removal of network, application or infrastructure services
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- Nonprofit consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society.
- in OpenECOMPONAP, a bundling of Products with specific Marketing configurations
OMF: Operational Management Framework (of OpenECOMPONAP)
OpenDaylight = ODL
- Largest open source SDN controller, or network control plane, written in Java (see https://www.opendaylight.org/, also https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDaylight_Project)
OpenECOMPONAP: Open-source Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management, and Policy
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PAP: Policy Administration Point (OpenECOMPONAP)
PDP-x: Policy Decision Point - XACML (OpenECOMPONAP)
PDP-d: Policy Decision Point - Drools (OpenECOMPONAP)
PO: Platform Orchestrator
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- a network function that runs in a hardware appliance
Portal:
- OpenECOMP ONAP user interface; provides access to design, analytics and operational control/administration via a common role-based menu or dashboard. Includes SDK to drive UI consistency.
- in OpenECOMPONAP, a composition of Services
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- within Chef, the most fundamental configuration element (see the Style Guide)
- in OpenECOMPONAP, a fundamental capability
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SDC: Service Design and Creation (component of OpenECOMP ONAP for visual modeling and design)
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SDNC (formerly SDN-C): Software Defined Network Controller (part of OpenECOMPONAP)
- its operators accept Comma Separated Value files describing networks
SDN-GP: Software Defined Network - Global Platform
- in OpenECOMPONAP, a composition of Resources
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TSC: Technical Steering Committee. Establishes work flows and procedures, criteria for contributors and committers, and any additional roles and responsibilities required on OpenECOMP ONAP projects.
UEB: An event bus interface that has been replaced by DMaaP.
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- OPNFV proposed standard common event data model for telemetry-related data (PowerPoint of proposal)
- used by vFirewall OpenECOMP ONAP demonstration VNF to report heartbeats, faults, measurements, etc.
- DCAE has a VES Collector
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VFC: Virtual Function Component (draft_OpenECOMPONAP_0_1 p. 45)
- software component of a VF that is packaged into one or more images and is capable of running in its own container
the smallest granularity of function visible to OpenECOMP ONAP designers
vfModule: Virtual Function Module
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- a virtualized task formerly carried out by proprietary, dedicated network hardware. (Examples: virtual firewall, virtual DNS.)
- in OpenECOMPONAP, a VNF is a Resource
- a VNF is a specific kind of Vendor Software Product
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- open-source version of Cisco's VPP
- a platform that provides switch/router functionality
- used by vPacketGenerator, vFirewall, and vLoadBalancer Virtual Network Functions in OpenECOMPin ONA
VSP: Vendor Software Product (from SDC Demo Guide)
- example: a VNF
- In OpenECOMPONAP, a VSP is a Resource.
WAR: Web application ARchive (Wikipedia)
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