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author | Sébastien Determe <sd378r@intl.att.com> | 2018-03-27 12:24:46 +0000 |
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committer | Gerrit Code Review <gerrit@onap.org> | 2018-03-27 12:24:46 +0000 |
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diff --git a/docs/architecture.rst b/docs/architecture.rst index 6211f121a..19c9b7052 100644 --- a/docs/architecture.rst +++ b/docs/architecture.rst @@ -1,21 +1,21 @@ .. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. .. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 -.. Copyright 2017 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. +.. Copyright (c) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. Clamp in ONAP Architecture -------------------------- -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 +CLAMP is a platform for designing and managing control loops. It is used to visualize +a control 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 +It interacts with other systems to deploy and execute the control loop. For +example, it gets the control loop blueprint from SDC - DCAE-D. +It requests from DCAE the instantiation of microservices +to manage the control loop flow. Furthermore, it creates and updates multiple policies in the Policy Engine that define the closed loop flow. The ONAP CLAMP platform abstracts the details of these systems under the concept @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ 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. +CLAMP also allows to visualize control loop metrics through a dashboard, in order +to help operations understand how and when a control loop is triggered and takes action. + At a higher level, CLAMP is about supporting and managing the broad operational life cycle of VNFs/VMs and ultimately ONAP components itself. It will offer the ability to design, test, deploy and update control loop automation - both closed |