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| .. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0 |
| .. Copyright (C) 2020 Nordix |
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| Non-RT RIC Control Panel Overview |
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| Graphical user interface with the following capabilities: |
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| * View and Manage A1 policies in the RAN (near-RT-RICs) |
| * Interacts with the Policy agent’s NBI (REST API) |
| * Graphical A1 policy creation/editing is model-driven, based on policy type’s JSON schema |
| * View and manage producers and jobs for the Enrichment coordinator service |
| * Configure A1 Policy Management Service (e.g. add/remove near-rt-rics) |
| * Interacts with the A1-PolicyManagementService & A1-EI-Coordinator (REST NBIs) via Service Exposure gateway |
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| The Control Panel consists of a frontend and a gateway. The frontend is developed using the Angular framework. |
| The Gateway is a Spring Cloud Gateway that provides an API Gateway for all the Non-RT-RIC Components. |
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| .. note:: |
| It is fully supported in Firefox and Chrome. Minor issues in Safari. |
| Not supported in Microsoft Edge and IE. |
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| Control Panel architecture |
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| The architecture of the Control Panel is as shown on the following picture: |
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| .. image:: ./images/ControlPanel_architecture.png |
| :scale: 50 % |
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| The Control Panel can be deployed following the instructions in the README.md file in the repo. |