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‘Services’ Overview
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DCAE Services run on the DCAE platform. A service performs either
monitors the virtualized network services or does analytics. A service
is composed of one or more components, and performs a business need.

Services are created in a ‘Service Design and Creation’ tool called
‘Service Assurance Flow Designer’ by a Service Designer. This is done by
\* 1. ‘compose’ing a service from the available SDC catalog components
(actually from the TOSCA models representing the components), then \* 2.
’submit’ing the service, which generates a Cloudify blueprint, is then
automatically uploaded to INVENTORY, and then deployed by DEPLOYMENT
HANDLER (once a DTI Event is triggered for the service). It should be
noted that some service flows, specifally ’closed-loop’ flows, are not
initiated by DTI, but are done by CLAMP.