Developer Guide

This document provides a quickstart for developers of the CCSDK functions for O-RAN A1 Policies.

Source tree

This provides CCSDK with “A1 Policy Management Service” and “A1 Adapter” functions. Each resource is implemented independently in a sub-directory corresponding to its name.

A1 Policy Management Service

The ONAP CCSDK A1 Policy Management Service is a Java 11 web application built using the Spring Framework. Using Spring Boot dependencies, it runs as a standalone application.

A1 Policy Management Service provides a REST API for management of policies. It provides support for:

Supervision of clients (R-APPs) to eliminate stray policies in case of failure

Consistency monitoring of the SMO view of policies and the actual situation in the RICs

Consistency monitoring of RIC capabilities (policy types)

Policy configuration. This includes:

One REST API towards all RICs in the network

Query functions that can find all policies in a RIC, all policies owned by a service (R-APP), all policies of a type etc.

Maps O1 resources (ManagedElement) as defined in O1 to the controlling RIC.

The Policy Management Service can be accessed over the REST API, and with an equivalent interface using DMaaP. See A1 Policy Management Service API for more information about the API. Note that DMaaP is deprecated and the possibility to access this service using DMaaP is deprecated and will be removed.

The configured A1 policies are stored persistently to survive a service restart.

Dependencies

This project uses various frameworks which are managed with Maven dependency management tool (see pom.xml file at root level) :

Swagger annotations
Spring Framework
Springfox Automated JSON API documentation for APIs built with Spring
Lombok to generate code, such as getters and setters
Awaitility to test asynchronous functionality

To get a complete list of all dependencies, use command “mvn dependency:tree”.

Configuration

There are two configuration files for A1 Policy Management Service, config/application_configuration.json and config/application.yaml The first (config/application_configuration.json) contains configuration needed by the application, such as which near-RT-RICs, or controller to use. DMaaP topic can also be configured, but is deprecated. The second (config/application.yaml) contains logging and security configurations.

For more information about these configuration files can be found as comments in the sample files provided with the source code, or on the ONAP wiki

Static configuration - Settings that cannot be changed at runtime (application.yaml)

The file ./config/application.yaml is read by the application at startup. It provides the following configurable features:

server; configuration for the WEB server

used port for HTTP/HTTPS, this is however not the port numbers visible outside the container

SSL parameters for setting up using of key store and trust store databases.

webclient; configuration parameters for a web client used by the component

SSL parameters for setting up using of key store and trust store databases.

Usage of HTTP(S) Proxy; if configured, the proxy will be used for southbound access to the NearRT-RICs

logging; setting for which information is logged.

auth-token; optional authorization token to use for REST call.

filepath; the local path to a file used for dynamic configuration (if used). See next chapter.

For details about the parameters in this file, see documentation in the file.

Dynamic configuration - Settings that can be changed at runtime (application_configuration.json or REST or ConfigMap)

The component has configuration that can be updated in runtime. This configuration can either be loaded from a file (accessible from the container), or using the Configuration REST API. The configuration is re-read and refreshed at regular intervals.

The configuration includes:

Optional Controller configuration, e.g. an SDNC instance (with A1-Adapter)

(If no ‘Contoller’ is configured, the A1 Policy Management Service will connect direct to near-RT-RICs, bypassing the SDNC controller)

One entry for each near-RT-RIC, which includes:

The base URL of the near-RT-RIC

A optional list of O1 identifiers that near-RT-RIC is controlling. An application can query this service which near-RT-RIC should be addressed for which component (e.g. cells, sectors, locations, etc.) .

An optional reference to the controller to use, or excluded if the near-RT-RIC should be accessed directly from the A1 Policy Management Service.

Optional configuration for using of DMaaP (deprecated). There can be one stream for requests to the component and an other stream for responses.

For details about the syntax of the file, there is an example in source code repository /config/application_configuration.json. This file is also included in the docker container /opt/app/policy-agent/data/application_configuration.json_example.

Configuring certificates

The A1 Policy Management Service uses the default keystore and truststore that are built into the container. The paths and passwords for these stores are located in a yaml file, with an example is provided in the source code repository a1-policy-management/config/application.yaml

There is also the A1 Policy Management Service’s own cert in the default truststore for mocking purposes and unit-testing (ApplicationTest.java).

The default keystore, truststore, and application.yaml files can be overridden by mounting new files using the the docker “volumes” command for docker-compose or docker run command. Assuming that the keystore, truststore, and application.yaml files are located in the same directory as docker-compose, the volumes field should have these entries:

`volumes:`
   `- ./new_keystore.jks:/opt/app/policy-agent/etc/cert/keystore.jks:ro`
   `- ./new_truststore.jks:/opt/app/policy-agent/etc/cert/truststore.jks:ro`
   `- ./new_application.yaml:/opt/app/policy-agent/config/application.yaml:ro`

The target paths in the container should not be modified.

Example docker run command for mounting new files (assuming they are located in the current directory):

docker run -p 8081:8081 -p 8433:8433 --name=policy-agent-container --network=nonrtric-docker-net --volume "$PWD/new_keystore.jks:/opt/app/policy-agent/etc/cert/keystore.jks" --volume "$PWD/new_truststore.jks:/opt/app/policy-agent/etc/cert/truststore.jks" --volume "$PWD/new_application.yaml:/opt/app/policy-agent/config/application.yaml" onap/ccsdk-oran-a1policymanagementservice:1.4.2-SNAPSHOT

A1 Adapter (Internal)

The O-RAN A1 Adapter provides an internal RESTCONF API that is used by the A1 Policy Management System when accessing the A1 Interface. This API is useful for test and verification but should not used otherwise.

See A1 ADAPTER API for details of this internal API.

Configuration of HTTP Proxy

In order to configure a HTTP Proxy for southbound connections:

Modify file: odlsli/src/main/properties/a1-adapter-api-dg.properties. This file is found in CCSDK/distribution for SDNC.

In a running container this file is found at /opt/onap/ccsdk/data/properties/a1-adapter-api-dg.properties

Variable a1Mediator.proxy.url must contain the full Proxy URL

After this configuration has been changed the A1 adapter needs to be either rebuilt, or restarted if the configuration is changed inside a container, or re-read by the container if externally accessible (e.g. K8s ConfigMap).