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diff --git a/docs/architecture.rst b/docs/architecture.rst index 19c9b7052..e526fb064 100644 --- a/docs/architecture.rst +++ b/docs/architecture.rst @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ .. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 .. Copyright (c) 2017-2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. - Clamp in ONAP Architecture -------------------------- @@ -13,11 +12,13 @@ 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 control loop. For -example, it gets the control loop blueprint from SDC - DCAE-D. +example, it gets the control loop blueprint from SDC - DCAE-DS. 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. +|clamp-flow| + The ONAP CLAMP platform abstracts the details of these systems under the concept of a control loop model. The design of a control loop and its management is represented by a workflow in which all relevant system interactions take @@ -28,8 +29,16 @@ 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. +|dashboard-flow| + 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 and open. Automating these functions would represent a significant saving on operational costs compared to traditional methods. + +|closed-loop| + +.. |clamp-flow| image:: images/distdepl.png +.. |dashboard-flow| image:: images/monitoring.png +.. |closed-loop| image:: images/ONAP-closedloop.png
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