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Any user seeking access to an OpenECOMP application will first visit the Portal, where authentication will be performed. Based on the user’s configured access level, the Portal will let the user access different application widgets, and might also redirect the user to a specific run-time environment.
From the Portal, users access applications and Key Performance Indicators. Administrators onboard and manage applications and hosted application widgets, and manage user access.
The Portal is also a platform that integrates different OpenECOMP applications into a centralized core. The Portal platform provides common management services and connectivity, while the applications run separately.
Here are two views of the Portal landing screen, one for administrators, and one for users:
Figure 1. Portal landing screen for administrators
Figure 2. Portal landing screen for users
Designing Services
The Portal provides the following design-time features:
- Visual Service Design and Creation (SDC): visual design tools for Services
- Policy creation (editing and conflict identification tools)
- Visual design tools for Analytic Applications (out-of-scope for first OpenECOMP release)
An API is available to enable developers to build additional user interface applications that interact with OpenECOMP components. For example, an app could be written to instantiate service from a certified design model that is not integrated with an automated service provider ordering system.
Installing Services
<<TODO: Reference to VID here; possible pointer to Demos page>>Instantiating Services
The Portal offers a Virtual Instantiation Deployment (VID) GUI to trigger MSO instantiation of Services and components. These services may include:
- Infrastructure Services (such as compute and storage resources)
- Network Services (Virtual Network Functions)
- Application Services (such as a load-balancing function)
VID reads the models created in SDC, and, in turn, forwards the appropriate information to AAI and MSO during the Service instantiation process.
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The Portal also provides a customizable Dashboard containing dynamic widgets that provide content provided by applications running in separate environments. The available widgets are tailored for each user based on access level. Examples of Dashboard elements include:
- Reports and visualizations, including topology visualizations
- Collaborative services (video, text chatting, and screen sharing)
- Application administration (manual on-boarding and management)
- System monitoring, alarms, and auditing
Administration
<<TODO: overview of creating users, assigning roles>>Figure 3. Portal's KPI Dashboard for DCAE metrics
Administration
From the ECOMP Portal, administrators:
- access the same functionality accessible to users
- manage users and application admins
- onboard applications and widgets
- edit the functional menu
User Guide
The forthcoming User Guide <<DocRef: User Guide>> will provide a comprehensive description of the features of the Portal.
Developer
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Information – Adding Applications
For developers who wish to extend add applications that interact with OpenECOMP components, there is a <<DocRef: Portal Software Development Kit (SDK)>>. This SDK includes bundled tools, technologies, and built-in capabilities such as services, APIs, and UI User Interface controls.