CLAMP

Project Name:

• Proposed name for the project: CLAMP
• Proposed name for the repository: (org.onap.)clamp

Project description:

• CLAMP is a platform for designing and managing control loops.  It is used to design a closed loop, configure it with specific parameters for a particular network service, then deploying and undeploying it.  Once deployed, the user can also update the loop with new parameters during runtime, as well as suspending and restarting it.

  
  

  It interacts with other systems to deploy and execute the closed loop.  For example, it pushes the control loop design to the SDC catalog, associating it with the VF resource.  It requests from DCAE the instantiation of microservices to manage the closed loop flow.  Further, it creates and updates multiple policies in the Policy Engine that define the closed loop flow.  The OpenCLAMP platform abstracts the details of these systems under the concept of a control loop model.  The design of a control loop and its management is represented by a workflow in which all relevant system interactions take place.  This is essential for a self-service model of creating and managing control loops, where no low-level user interaction with other components is required.

Scope

1. Designing the Control Loop:
   1. Model based (based on templates)
   2. Re-usable designs
2. Configuring the Control Loop:
   1. VNF driven, future should be SERVICE driven
   2. Defining threshold values…
3. Deploying the Control Loop:
   1. Sending template towards DCAE, Policy, …
4. Lifecycle Management of the Control Loop:
   1. Stopping/re-starting/updating
   2. Monitoring (visualization of the Loop)
   3. Trial mode, production mode, ….(future)
   4. Activation (manually, triggered by policy, tied to the vnf startup, ….still to be defined)

 Architecture Alignment

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