Review Submission Date : 08 Jul 2020

Project Description:

DCAE project provides intelligence for ONAP to support automation (via open-loop and CL) by performing network data collections, analytics & correlation and trigger actionable rootcause events.

DCAE components are classified between platform and service components. DCAE Platform refers to the set of controller components which manages deployment and LCM of DCAE service components. The DCAE services components includes all the microservices - collectors, analytics and event processor which supports active data-flows and processing as required by ONAP usecases.

The architecture of DCAE targets flexible, micros-service oriented, model based component design and deployment. DCAE also offers support for multi-site collection and analytics operations which are essential for large ONAP deployments.

Project Landing Page: Data Collection Analytics and Events Project

Project Meeting Minutes: DCAE Project Meetings

Leadership Resources :

Role	First Name Last Name	Linux Foundation ID	Email Address
PTL	Vijay Venkatesh Kumar	vv770d	vv770d@att.com
Committers	Lusheng Ji	wrider	lji@research.att.com
	Tony Hansen	TonyLHansen	tony@att.com
	Yan Yang	yangyan	yangyanyj@chinamobile.com
	Xinhui Li	xinhuili	lxinhui@vmware.com
	Jack Lucas	jackl	jflucas@research.att.com
	Piotr Wielebski	pwielebs	piotr.wielebski@nokia.com
	Henrik Andersson	elinuxhenrik	henrik.b.andersson@est.tech
	Joseph O'Leary	JoeOLeary	joseph.o.leary@ericsson.com
	Kornel Janiak	kjaniak	kornel.janiak@nokia.com

Project & Release History

How long the project has been an active: DCAE Project has been an active ONAP Project since Amsterdam and has participated in ALL releases through Frankfurt.
Release Participation: All ONAP releases
Engagement levels for past releases (up to 3):
- Commits per Release: see below
- Contributors per Release: see below
- Companies per release: see below

Statistics taken from Bitergia : https://onap.biterg.io/app/kibana#/dashboard/Overview

Release name and timeframe	commits	contributors	companies
Amsterdam ( 1/1/2017 to 11/16/2017 )	754	54	8
Beijing ( 11/17/2017 to 6/7/2018 )	1112	57	8
Cassablanca ( 6/8/2018 to 11/30/2018 )	784	56	10
Dublin ( 12/1/2018 to 7/9/2019 )	501	58	13
El Alto ( 7/10/2019 to 10/24/2019 )	242	31	9
Frankfurt ( 10/25/2019 to 6/18/2020 )	550	48	13

Bitergia Statistics from the Last 2 Years

Use Cases: DCAE is pretty much involved in all use cases as DCAE services components are involved in collection/analytics processing.
- vFirewall
- Scale Out
- vCPE
- CCVPN
- 5G OOF SON
- BBS
- MDONS
- E2E Slicing

Architecture Alignment:

Latest review (Frankfurt) happened on : Jan'2020 - DCAE R6 - M3 Architecture Review
Latest Architecture documentation : ARC DCAE Component Description - Guilin (R7) Release & https://lf-onap.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=16432189 (Pending review)

Artifact Information:

DCAE project includes following repositores. DCAE components are classified between core-platform and service components which are dynamic in nature.

Platform Components

dcaegen2/deployments - For hosting configurations and several init containers for deployments
dcaegen2/platform - Top level repo for dcaegen2/platform (contains sub-projects)
dcaegen2/platform/blueprints - Blueprint for DCAE controller and bootstrap container
dcaegen2/platform/configbinding - Configbinding api service
dcaegen2/platform/deployment-handler Deployment handler providing interface to CLAMP/Dashboard
dcaegen2/platform/inventory-api - DCAE inventory API service
dcaegen2/platform/plugins - Plugins for DCAE controller (cloudify)
dcaegen2/platform/policy-handler - Policy handler to retrieve active policy configuration for DCAE services
dcaegen2/platform/servicechange-handler - Service Change handler for retrieving blueprints from SDC via DMaap
dcaegen2/utils - For hosting utility/tools code used cross components
ccsdk/dashboard - DCAE Dashboard for operation/management
dcaegen2 - Documentation repo

Service Components

dcaegen2/analytics/tca - Threshold crossing analytics based on CDAP
dcaegen2/analytics/tca-gen2 - Standalone TCA based on Sping-boot
dcaegen2/collectors/datafile - Data File collector
dcaegen2/collectors/hv-ves - High Volume VES Collector
dcaegen2/collectors/restconf - RESTConf Collector
dcaegen2/collectors/snmptrap - SNMP Trap collector
dcaegen2/collectors/ves - VNF Event Streaming collector
dcaegen2/services - DCAE Service component (contains sub-projects)
dcaegen2/services/heartbeat - Missing Heartbeat Micro Services
dcaegen2/services/mapper - VES Mapper Micro Services
dcaegen2/services/pm-mapper - Mapper to process files from DR and transform to VES
dcaegen2/services/prh - PNF Registration Handler
dcaegen2/services/sdk - Common SDK repo for all DCAE Services (R4)
dcaegen2/services/son-handler - SON-handler service

Code Coverage: https://sonarcloud.io/organizations/onap/projects?search=dcaegen

Deliverables

Documentation

User Guide

Integation Support

DCAE team has been improving upon current CSIT and automated test via gating. In Frankfurt, DCAE team worked with Integration to setup several usecase test part of "Smoke Usecases" executed under gating job. Following service/usecase flow are incorporated in the gating

Companies that run ONAP DCAE

To our knowledge, the following companies have used ONAP DCAE components : AT&T, Bell Canada, Nokia, Ericsson, Wipro, China Mobile. As VES is approved standard for xNF integration for ONAP, many of DCAE collector/services are actively used for data collection/processing.

DCAE Platform is running in production within AT&T since 2017.

Other Information:

Being one of largest ONAP project (40+ active containers, 30+ repository), DCAE strives to adhere to ONAP code quality by improving its codebase with each release. Many companies have already contributed to DCAE, showing the interest of the community for the project. DCAE components is also a starting point to discuss standards and implement representations of xNFs.

VES standardization which is now recently adopted by 3GPP was successful through active contribution/support from DCAE team. VES is also used a internal event standard for all communications with analytics/correlation MS to simplify integration of new services.

DCAE plays vital role in control Loop execution in ONAP. DCAE team has been working on CL committee with CLAMP and Policy team to simplify control loop design and execution in ONAP.

DCAE Demo/Videos

Frankfurt Release - PMSH and TCA-GEN2
Frankfurt Release - MOD & Acumos Adapter
ONAP Community Awards: El-Alto Release (Demos Only) (Awarded as Winner)
Dublin Release - PM-Mapper & BBS_Event Processor MS
Dublin Release - VES-Mapper and SON-Handler MS
Dublin Release - Dashboard & DCAE Multisite deploy (K8s plugin)
Dublin Release - RESTConf Collector & Heartbeat MS
Dublin Release - Blueprint generator
Dublin Release - Datalake (PoC):
Dublin Release - Walkthrough on BP generation to ONAP K8S deployment via Dashboard
Dublin Release - Helm Plugin

DCAE Presentation

ONS Conference in California (2018)
OPEN DDF Plugfest in Nozay, France (2019)
DCAE Orchestration for Edge deployment - California (2019)
Presentation at LF June DDF in Sweden (2019)
ONAP DDF Plugfest in Belgium (2019)