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Date

16 Mar 2022

Attendees

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST) (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Alex Stancu(Highstreet & OSC SIM)
• James Li (CMCC & OSC INT)
• ChrisC (AT&T)
• Sebastien Determe (AT&T)
• Abhinav Singh (AT&T)
• Arnold Alvarado (NIWC)
• Björn Magnusson (Ericsson EST)
• Evgeny Limonov (DT)
• Hariom Gupta
• Henrik Andersson (Ericsson EST)
• Kevin Tang (STL)
• Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)
• marcin krasowski (Samsung)
• Marine de Dorlodot (AT&T)
• N.K. Shankaranarayanan (STL)
• Pawel Slowikowski (Samsung)
• Ryan McAllister (USN)
• Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST)
• Vidhu (HCL)
• Xue Gao (AT&T)
• May not have captured a full attendee list for this meeting  ... please add/remove yourself

See also / co-located (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Co-located with ONAP 2022-03-16 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - lo res)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Note daylight Savings Time changeover in coming weeks - see note above.

  • Please follow the calendar

    • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar

    • https://lists.onap.org/g/onap-meetings/calendar#
      

  • US/Canada: Daylight Savings Starts 13 March.  Eastern Daylight Time is UTC-4

  • Europe: European Summer Time Starts 27 March CEST is UTC+2

  • 2022-03-16: (Follow US Local time - 1 hour earlier for Europeans & countries without DST)

  • 2022-03-23: (Follow US Local time - remains 1 hour earlier for Europeans & countries without DST)

  • 2022-03-30 + (Usual local time in US & Europe, remains 1 hour earlier for countries without DST) 

    • 9am PDT | 12pm EDT | 16:00 UTC | 17:00 BST | 18:00 CEST | 19:00 EEST | 21:30 IST | 00:00 CST (Thurs) | 01:00 JST (Thurs)

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST) will join late this week

OSC SMO Meeting Series: Reminder from previous weeks:

• OSC SMO calls now move to its own time slot - Thursdays
  • See OSC RSAC Calendar: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RSAC/calendars
  • See also OSC Meetings calendar: https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar
• (Note this meeting to open to anyone, including non-ORAN members)
• We will maintain this slot for ONAP Alignment, and try flag issues/question to/from SMO meetings.
• See OSC SMO Project meeting notes

OSC Project roundup:

News from OSC TOC call this week

• https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TOC/#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)
  • Reminder to attend OTF readout during RSAC call Mar 24
    
    • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/viewevent?repeatid=17297&eventid=1440613&calstart=2022-03-24
    • Postponed from 10 Mar
  • Need to keep pushing for quality & security
    • Encouraged to bump up badging scores
    • Will be checking on Sonar coverage in coming weeks.

NONRTRIC (John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

• As per last week:
  • Working on e2e PM data - making it available over pre-R1 DME (OSC NONRTRIC) Information Coordination Service)
  • Working on PoC Service Exposure - with a view towards R1
    • Will update more as this matures - still very early - hopefully a demo in coming weeks
  • Working on getting Repos set up - e.g. lots of Jenkins jobs.
    • Thanks to the LF team!

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• Topology creator & visualizer

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• As above in SIM
  
  • Topology model & visualizer making good progress adding new node & connection types
    • UEs, FH-Gateway, some core components, etc. More Transport nodes to follow.
    • e.g. See sample n/w topology views (SVG) at https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/Use+case+Networks

O-DU (Hariom Gupta Vidhu)

• Working on Fault VES messages & integration with OAM / Ves Collector etc.
  
  • Will work with Martin Skorupski

RSAC/SMO (David Kinsey [AT&T])

• No update
• Reminder: OTF update at RSAC call 24th March
  
  • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar
  • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/viewevent?repeatid=17297&eventid=1440613&calstart=2022-03-24
  • Walk-through session for OTF at upcoming RSAC meeting (postponed from March 10)
    
    • Near-RT-RIC platform as usecase ?
    • Session will be recorded etc

OSC Integration / INT (James Li )

• Reminder: OTF update at RSAC call 24th March
  
  • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar
  • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/viewevent?repeatid=17297&eventid=1440613&calstart=2022-03-24
  • Walk-through session for OTF at upcoming RSAC meeting (postponed from March 10)
    
    • Near-RT-RIC platform as usecase ?
    • Session will be recorded etc
• Working on getting INT deployments running in Powder lab

ONAP Use Cases Update  (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• No update

SMO Integration Charts (Sebastien Determe)

• Sebastien Determe & ChrisC

• Demo: (recording @ 00:10:00 )

  • Automated deployment and testing - using SMO package and ONAP Python SDK

    • Some Jenkins jobs to run tests automatically (CI/CD) when changing tests/env: Defining Automated Jenkins Jobs for O-RAN SC Repos

      • Reports from tests are sent back to Gerrit, & reports now appear during review process
        • not gating - informational only 
        • depending on which Labs are currently listening for changes (OSC Gerrit and Github) 
          
          • e.g. for OSC Gerrit: https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/c/it/dep/+/7864 contains sample tests, & reports from Jenkins jobs can be seen in comments
        • Need to recreate Powder assignment pretty often
        • Can also deploy on your own labs/machine and have the report-back to Gerrit.
          • Jenkins setup included in repo.
          • When running see Jenkins dashboard http://<ipadress>:32080
    • Documentation ongoing (wiki page, videos etc)

  • Easy to create new tests & run them.

    • Can define new tests & run using the manually triggered jobs
  • See https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=it/dep.git;a=tree;f=smo-install

Q/A

• None this week
• Happy St. Patrick's Day (Ireland, 17 March)