This document provides an overview of DCAE functionality and APIs planned for ONAP R1.
DCAE Functionalities
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C3 interface is the interface from CLAMP to DCAE. When CLAMP performs lifecycle management on any control loop, it invoke the C3 API into DCAE to trigger corresponding workflows being executed on DCAE service components.
C4 is the interface that DCAE depends on for deploying its virtual resources to cloud infrastructure. For R1 it is the standard Open Stack API, provided by either the cloud infrastructure or MultiVIM.
D1 is the FCAPS data ingestion API provided by DCAE service component (VES collector) for supporting all three approved use cases, i.e. vFW/vDNS, vCPE, vVoLTE.
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