ARC Usecase-UI Component Description – London-R12

Page Status: Updated for London -  Feb 1, 2023 
Component Status: Pending PTL updates and ArchCom Review

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1. High Level Component Definition and Architectural Relationships 



  • Usecase-UI is an application portal which provides the ability to manage ONAP service instances. 

  • Usecase-UI allows customers to create/delete/update service instances, as well as to monitor the alarm and performance of these instances.

2. API definitions

Usecase-UI provides the following interfaces(Since Usecase-UI doesn't offer APIs,  we just provide the architecture of the two portal):



Interface Definition

 Interface Capabilities

API Spec (Swagger)



Interface Definition

 Interface Capabilities

API Spec (Swagger)

UU-APIE-1

Operator Portal

User interface for operators:

  • Customer management

  • Package management (including NS, VNF, PNF and IBN)

  • Service lifecycle management for use cases (including CCVPN, SOTN, 5G slicing, Intent-based and so on)

  • Monitor

  • Network topology management

usecase-UI architecture

UU-APIE-2

Customer Portal

User interface for customer:

  • Service order

  • Service management

  • Service monitor

usecase-UI architecture

Note:   xxxI interface is a Component internal interface.  xxxxE interface is a component external interface

The provided UI interfaces are found at: Usecase-UI latest user guide

Usecase-UI consumes the following interfaces:

Interface Name

Interface Definition

 Interface Capabilities

API Spec (Swagger)

Interface Name

Interface Definition

 Interface Capabilities

API Spec (Swagger)

SDCE-6*

SDC Interface

An interface to receive resource Templates from SDC design catalog.

https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-sdc/en/latest/offeredapis.html

SO-E-01*

Service and Resource order requests

Service Instance management (Service, Volume Group, VF Module, VNF)

Health check, global and node.

Infrastructure provider management (Certificates, networks, sub-networks, security groups)

https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-so/en/latest/api/offered_consumed_apis.html

VFCE-2

Service Orchestrator / Policy Interface

An interface to allow Service Orchestrator and Policy request NS Lifecycle Management ( ETSI SOL-005 ).

https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-vfc-nfvo-lcm/en/latest/platform/APIs/index.html

AAIE-1*

Inventory Service Interface

An interface to create, update, query, and delete resource information and relationships.

AAI REST API Documentation

MSBE-1*

Micro Service Bus Interface

An interface for registration and discovery with the ONAP Micro Service Bus.

Microservice Bus API Documentation

etsicatalogAPIE1~4

Modelling Tosca Parser Interfaces and catalog interfaces

An interface for the Tosca Parser from Modelling project to parse the NS and VNF Descriptors.

Etsicatalog API Document

DCAE-DES

DCAE Service Components

An interface for DataLake Exposure Service Rest APIs

DCAE R8 M2 Architecture Review

*Current description is based on Guilin documentation, will be updated accordingly if correspondent API update in Honolulu.

3. Component Description:

Usecase-UI  is a web application which contains  three parts: 

  • Usecase-UI GUI

  • Usecase-UI Server

  • Usecase-UI NLP Server(from I Release)

  • Usecase-UI INTENT ANALYSIS SERVER(from K Release)

4. known system limitations

Now the component Redundancy and scaling depends on Kubernetes.

5. Used Models

Usecase-UI use the following models:

  • TOSCA  - VNF Descriptor/NS Descriptor  ETSI NFV SOL001  v2.4.1 & v2.5.1

6. System Deployment Architecture

Usecase-UI consists of 6 containers:

  • Usecase-UI-Operator Portal

  • Usecase-UI-Operator Server

  • Usecase-UI-Customer Portal

  • Usecase-UI-Customer Backend

  • Usecase-UI-NLP Server(from H Release)

  • Usecase-UI-Intent-Analysis Server(from K Release)

7. New Release Capabilities

The London Release supports six capabilities:   

  1. Optimize the Intent analysis server to improve the general intent solutions.

  2. Introduce AI technology to improve the intelligent level of intent processing.

  3. Support interaction with Nephio by adding Nephio adapter to intent analysis server.

  4. Enhance the functions of intent translation for Cloud-network Convergence Services.

8. References

Usecase-UI Installation & User Guide: usecase-ui docs