ARC DCAE Component Description - Montreal-R13

Page Status: Updated for Montreal -  Nov 1, 2023 
Component Status: Approved

Last Reviewed on:    Jan 17, 2023 

Certified by:  @Vijay Kumar @Tony Hansen 

1. High Level Component Definition and Architectural Relationships 





2. Component API definitions

DCAE Component provides the following interfaces:

Interface Name

Interface Definition

 Interface Capabilities

Protocol

Status

Consumed Models

API Spec (Swagger)

Interface Name

Interface Definition

 Interface Capabilities

Protocol

Status

Consumed Models

API Spec (Swagger)

DCAE-EXT1

VES Collector

An interface to share FM/PM data for VNF FCAPS from the VNFs via the EMS Driver to VES Collector

REST

Available

VES

VES-Collector

DCAE-EXT2

HV-VES Collector

Interface to support GPB over TCP for high volume VES Events

Proto/TCP

Available

VES

HV-VES (High Volume VES)

DCAE-EXT3

DataFileCollector

Supports bulk/batch datafile collection from xNF

http/sftp/ftpes

Available

3GPP

NA

DCAE-EXT4

SNMPTrap

Supports SNMP traps collection from SNMP agents deployed in the network

UDP

Available



NA

DCAE-EXT5

RESTConf

Subscribes to external controllers and retrieves data

restconf

Available



RESTConf

DCAE-EXT6

OnboardingAPI (MOD)

Used for onboarding MS component spec file and data-format into Design catalog

REST

Available 



Onboarding HTTP API (MOD)

DCAE-EXT9

Data Extraction Service (DES)

Provides basic computation and data retrieval/access from data storage maintained by DL handlers (Feeder)

REST

Available

(Guilin)



des-swagger.json

DCAE-EXT10

DCAE Openloop/CL Event

Open loop and Control Loop event trigger from DCAE analytics/correlation MS into DMAAP

REST

Available



CL Event Structure

DCAE-EXT11

PNF Registration Handler

PNF Registration event published through DMAAP Kafka

REST

Available

VES

PRH (PNF Registration Handler)

DCAE-EXT13

SliceAnalysis MS

API to provide details of remaining capacity available for queried slice instance (NSI/NSSI)

NSI/NSSI Selection based on resource occupancy levels



REST

Available



https://lf-onap.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/16493831/slice-analysis-swagger.yaml?version=1&modificationDate=1640159785000&api=v2

DCAE-EXT14

PM Subscription Handler Service

Adds API support for Subscription/Filters/Measurement group management

REST

Available



https://gerrit.onap.org/r/c/dcaegen2/+/126725





DCAE Component consumes the following Interfaces:



Interface Name

Interface Definition

 Interface Capabilities

Protocol

Status

Consumed Models

API Spec (Swagger)

Interface Name

Interface Definition

 Interface Capabilities

Protocol

Status

Consumed Models

API Spec (Swagger)

POE-1

Policy update notification via DMAAP 

Receive updates to DCAE MS configuration policies via DMAAP (consumed by DCAE Policy Handler)

REST

Available

tosca.policies.root

TOSCA

(Deprecated with Jakarta Release)

POE-5

PDP - DCAE Policy Sidecar

Fetched policies for DCAE MS from the Policy Framework via PDP query

REST

Available

Defined by policy

POE-5 (Policy Decision API)

AAIE-1

Topology Enrichment 

Enrichment query by Correlation/analytics MS 

REST

Available



AAI REST API Documentation on readthedocs.io

Acumos-E5 Subscription

Acumos - AA (MOD)

Acumos Adapter - Retrieves models from Acumos using E5 interface and onboard them into DCAE (MOD) using OnboardingAPI and make it available in Catalog

REST

Available (POC)



(Deprecated with Jakarta Release)

SDCE-6

Artifact Distribution

DCAE Platform (SCH) uses notification to determine if artifact (blueprint) retrieval must be triggered

DCAE-VESOpenAPI manager uses notification to retrieve VES schema uploaded and perform validation

REST

Available



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



3. Component Description:

4. Known system limitations



Architectural Technical Debt

       Hardening MOD components (delivered as POC in Honolulu) as mainstream component and integration with Helm flow support



5. System Deployment Architecture

https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-dcaegen2/en/latest/sections/release-notes.html

6. New Release Capabilities

7. References

  1. DCAE Architecture

    1. DCAE R12 London M2 Release Planning#Architecture

    2. RTD - https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-dcaegen2/en/latest/sections/architecture.html

  2. DCAE Onboarding (via MOD)

    1. RTD - https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-dcaegen2/en/latest/sections/design-components/index-onboarding.html

    2. RTD - https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-dcaegen2/en/latest/sections/design-components/requirements-guidelines.html