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+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
+
+.. _design:
+
+Design
+======
+
+There are 4 processes created as below
+
+Main process
+------------
+ 
+This is the initial process which does the following.
+
+- Download CBS configuration and update the vnf_table_1
+- Spawns HB worker process, DB Monitoring process and CBS polling
+  process (if required)
+- Periodically update the hb_common table
+
+HB worker process
+-----------------
+
+This process is created by main process and does the following.
+
+- It waits on the HB Json event message from DMaaP message router
+- It receives the HB Json message and retrieves sourceName,
+  lastEpochTime, eventName in the incoming message
+- It checks for the received eventName against the eventName in
+  vnf_table_1. If eventName is not matched, then it discards the
+  message.
+- It checks for the received sourceName in the vnf_table_2. If the
+  sourceName is already there in vnf_table_2, then it updates the
+  received HB Json message in vnf_table_2 against that sourceName. If
+  the sourceName is not there in vnf_table_2, then it adds an entry in
+  vnf_table_2 for that eventName and increments the sourceName count in
+  vnf_table_1
+
+DB Monitoring process
+---------------------
+
+This process is created by main process and does the following.
+
+- The DB monitoring process scans through each entry of vnf_table_1 and
+  looks at the corresponding vnf_table_2 and checks the condition for
+  Control Loop event is met or not
+- If it finds that the multiple consecutive HB are missed, it raises
+  the Control Loop event.
+- It also clears the control loop event by looking at recently received
+  HB message.
+- Because of reconfiguration procedure, some of the existing entries in
+  vnf_table_1 may become invalid. DB Monitoring process would clean the
+  DB by looking at validity flag maintained in each vnf_table_1 table
+  entry. If not valid, it removes the entry in vnf_table_1 and also
+  removes the corresponding entries of vnf_table_2.
+
+CBS polling process
+-------------------
+
+If the local configuration file (config/hbproperties.yaml) indicates
+that CBS polling is required, then main process would create the CBS 
+polling process. It does the following.
+
+- It takes the CBS polling interval from the configuration file.
+
+- For every CBS polling interval, it sets the hb_common with state as
+  reconfiguration to indicate the main process to download CBS
+  configuration
+
+CBS configuration download support
+----------------------------------
+
+Apart from the above, a function/method is provided to Docker container
+that would download the CBS configuration whenever the configuration
+changes. This method/function would read hb_common state and change the
+state to reconfiguration.
+
+Heartbeat Microserice Multi instance support
+--------------------------------------------
+
+In order to work smoothly in an environment having multiple HB micro
+services instances, processes would work differently as mentioned below.
+
+**Main Process:**
+
+    Active Instance:
+     - Download CBS configuration and process it
+     - Spawns processes
+     - Periodically update hb_common with last accessed time to indicate that active instance is Alive.
+	 
+    Inactive Instance:
+        - Spawns processes
+        - Constantly check hb_common entry for last accessed time
+        - If the last accessed time is more than a minute or so, then it assumes the role of active instance 
+    
+**HB worker process:** Both active and inactive instance behaves the sames as metnioned in the Design section.
+
+**DB Monitoring process:** Both active periodically checks its process ID/hostname with hb_common data to know whether it is an active instance or not. If inactive instance it does nothing. If active instance, it behaves as mentioned in design section.
+
+**CBS Polling process:** Periodically checks its process ID/hostname with hb_common data to know whether it is an active instance or not. If inactive instance it does nothing. If active instance, it behaves as mentioned in design section.
+
+Handling of some of the failure scenarios
+-----------------------------------------
+
+Failure to download the configuration from CBS – In this case, local
+configuration file etc/config.json is considered as the configuration
+file and vnf_table_1 is updated accordingly.
+
+The Reconfiguration procedure is as below
+-----------------------------------------
+
+- If the state is Reconfiguration, then HB worker process, DB
+  monitoring process and CBS polling process would wait for
+  reconfiguration to complete.
+- Set each entry as invalid by using validity flag in vnf_table_1
+- Download the json file from CBS.
+- Set the validity flag to indicate to valid when an entry is updated.
+
+Postgres Database
+-----------------
+
+There are 3 tables maintained.
+
+**Vnf_table_1 table:** 
+This is table is indexed by eventName. Each entry
+has following parameters in it.
+
+- eventName
+- Configured heartbeat Missed Count
+- Configured Heartbeat Interval
+- Number of SourceName having same eventName
+- Validity flag that indicates VNF entry is valid or not
+- It also has following parameter related to Control loop event
+   - policyVersion
+   - policyName
+   - policyScope
+   - target_type
+   - target
+   - closedLoopControlName
+   - version
+
+**Vnf_table_2 table:** 
+For each sourceName there would be an entry in vnf_table_2. 
+This is indexed by eventName and SourceName. Each entry has
+below parameters
+
+- SourceName
+- Last received heartbeat epoch time
+- Control loop event raised flag. 0 indicates not raised, 1 indicates
+  CL event raised
+
+**hb_common table:** 
+This is a single entry table.
+
+- The configuration status which would have one of the below.
+   - **RECONFIGURATION** – indicates CBS configuration processing is in
+      progress.
+   - **RUNNING** – CBS configuration is completed and ready to process HB
+      event and send CL event.
+- The process ID – This indicates the main process ID of the active HB
+  instance which is responsible to take care of reconfiguration
+- The source Name – It has 2 parts, hostname and service name. The
+  hostname is the Docker container ID. The service name is the
+  environment variable set for SERVICE_NAME
+- The last accessed time – The time last accessed by the main process
+  having the above process ID.