Could be used for Integration, Testing, Validation.
Ability to poll for changes
"Golden Configuration" can be used to sync, out-of-sync configuration updates. Backdoors in operations, and this would be a way to audit.
"Golden Configuration" can be used as a "reference"
Why Poll? - a "Push" Mechanism, described in attachments (see below), can also "Poll" as in the case of an audit. Does every change gets published. Could set policies & thresholds on a per change basis. or a Threshold (changes more than x times per hour).
"real data" to validate against "valid data"
Trigger audits, do you need to poll on a regular basis? A: You don't want to poll on a regular basis, how often should polling be done? This circumvents that because you send important changes when they happen. described in attachments (see below). Interrogation process Pushing/Polling.
3 Innovations (1) Vendor-neutral config MS (2) U/C (3) Golden Inventory may or may not be A&AI.
ONAP A&AI has: topology, configuration, state information info, service level attributes.
Explore "State" in a followup
Configuration Information Stored, what components use it. APP-C "Configuration" database.
Relation to A&AI. Create an accurate record, in a logically central manner which can be used by orchestration & controllers. A&AI would be the source; an orchestrator has this info as well. And A&AI would need to true up with that, esp w/ geographically distributed orchestrators. an actionable single source of truth. [] extension A&AI. A&AI is recipient, this U/C creates a conduit. A&AI houses the information; Centralize repository configuration as a reference.