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| A&AI - Active and Available Inventory |
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| Inventory DB for all network components |
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| CLAMP |
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| Non DCAE Platform Component - Controls the input and processing for |
| Closed Loop services. |
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| Closed Loop |
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| Services designed to monitor and report back to a controlling function |
| that automatically deals with the event reported without human |
| interaction. |
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| Cloudify |
| -------- |
| Open Source application and network orchestration framework, based on |
| TOSCA used in DCAE to deploy platform and service components from |
| Cloudify Blueprints. |
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| Cloudify Blueprints |
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| YAML formatted file used by Cloudify to deploy platform and service |
| components. Contains all the information needed for installation. |
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| Consul |
| ------ |
| Opensource Platform Component that supports Service Discovery, |
| Configuration, and Healthcheck. Refer to |
| `Architecture </architecture/pieces>`__ for more information. |
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| Component |
| --------- |
| Refers to a DCAE service component which is a single micro-service that |
| is written to be run by the DCAE platform and to be composeable to form |
| a DCAE service. That composition occurs in the SDC. |
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| Config Binding Service |
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| DCAE Platform Component - Service Components use Config Binding Service |
| to access Consul and retrieve configuration variables. |
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| Component Specification |
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| JSON formatted file that fully describes a component and its interfaces |
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| Data Format / Data Format Specification |
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| JSON formatted file that fully describes a components input or output |
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| Deployment Handler |
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| DCAE Platform Component - Receives Input from DTI Handler, and talks to |
| Cloudify to deploy components. |
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| Design-Time |
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| Refers to when the System Designer uses a design tool to compose services |
| from components in the catalog. The Designer can provide input to |
| assign/override defaults for configuration for any parameter with the |
| property 'designer\_editable' set to 'true'. |
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| Deploy-Time |
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| Refers to when a service is being deployed. This can be done |
| automatically via the SDC Tool, or manually via the DCAE Dashboard or |
| CLAMP UI. When manually deployed, DevOps can provide input to |
| assign/override defaults for configuration for any parameter with the |
| property 'sourced\_at\_deployment' set to 'true'. |
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| Docker |
| ------ |
| Opensource Platform for development of containerized applications in the |
| cloud. Many DCAE service components and all DCAE collectors are written |
| utilizing Docker. |
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| Dmaap |
| ----- |
| AT&T data transportation service platform that supports message-based |
| topics and file-based feeds. Runs locally at the Edge and Centrally. |
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| Inventory |
| --------- |
| DCAE Platform Component - Postgres DB containing Cloudify Blueprints for |
| platform and service components. |
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| Policy |
| ------ |
| Refers to the setting of configuration parameters for a component, by |
| Operations via the Policy UI. |
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| Policy Handler |
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| DCAE Platform Component that received Policy updates from Policy UI |
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| Policy UI |
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| Non DCAE Component - Policy User Interace where Operations assigns |
| values to configuraton specified for this. |
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| Run-Time |
| -------- |
| Refers to the when a service is running on the platform. Often used in |
| conjunction with DTI events which occur at Run-time. |
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| SCH - Service Change Handler |
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| DCAE Platform Component - Receives updates from SDC and updates |
| Inventory |
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| SDC - Service Design and Creation |
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| ONAP design catalog for onboarding VNF/PNF packages |
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| Self-Service |
| ------------ |
| Refers to services that are supported by SDC, and that are automatically |
| installed as a result of a Service Designer's composition and submission |
| of a service. Only a handful of services are 'self-service' currently. |
| Most require manual effort to generate the Tosca Model files and |
| Cloudify Blueprints. |
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| Service Component |
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| Microservice that provides network monitoring or analytic function on |
| the DCAE platform. |
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| Service |
| ------- |
| Generally composed of multiple service components, which is deployed to |
| the DCAE platform. |
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| VNF - Virtualized Network Function |
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| A network function that runs on one or more virtualized machines. |