policy_handler

web-service for policies to be used by DCAE-Controller

• GET /policy_latest/<policy-id> -- get the latest policy from policy-engine
• receives the push notifications from policy-engine through the web-socket, filters and gets the full policy-configs, and delivers that to deploy-handler

manual http API

• GET /catch_up -- catch up with the latest state of the policy-engine
• GET /policies_latest -- get all the latest policies in policy-engine through web-service API
• GET /shutdown -- shutdown the server

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installation

virtualenv policy_venv

cd policy_venv

source bin/activate

cd ../policy_handler

pip install -r requirements.txt

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preparation to run

cd policy_venv

source bin/activate

cd ../policy_handler

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configure

in folder policy_handler:

- `config.json` contains
    - `"scope_prefixes" : ["DCAE_alex.Config_"]` - the list of policy-scope-class values
    - `"policy_engine"` - the http connect info to ECOMP **policy-engine**
        - headers.ClientAuth : base64(<mech-id with namespace>:<password>)
        - headers.Authorization : base64(<policy-engine server auth>)
    - `"deploy_handler"` - the http connect info to _policy part_ of the **deploy-handler**
- `policy_engine.properties` contains config info for the client lib of ECOMP **policy-engine** that receives push notifications from the ECOMP **policy-engine** server
    - CLIENT_ID is the mech-id with the namespace - need to register with policy-engine team thru email
    - CLIENT_KEY is the base64 of the mech-id password - separate passwords for TEST versus PROD

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run

in folder policy_handler:

./run_policy.sh

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