2024-10-22 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

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Date

Oct 22, 2024

Attendees

• @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)

• @Martin Skorupski (highstreet & OSC OAM)

• @Alex Stancu (highstreet & OSC SIM)

• Subhash Kumar Singh (@subhash) (Samsung & OSC AIMLFW)

• @Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)

• @Francesco Davide Lapenta (Ericsson EST)

• @RAVITEJA KARUMURI (EST) (Ericsson EST)

• Varadarajan Srinivasan  @Varadarajan (Samsung)

• May not have captured a full correct attendee list for this meeting  ... please add/remove yourself

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

• Co-located with ONAP 2024-10-22 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting) 

  • Note: ONAP wiki has moved from https://wiki.onap.org → https://lf-onap.atlassian.net/wiki so lots of old links will fail!

Contents

Recording

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Next Meetings:

  • 2024-10-08 (as usual)

  • 2024-10-15 (as usual)

  • 2024-10-22 (as usual)

  • 2024-10-29 (cancelled - O-RAN F2F in Montreal)

  • 2024-11-05 (Note change for some people with daylight saving time change in Europe & US (at least))

• Calendar: 

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

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

  • Sorry - Meeting series has timed out. No entry in calendar for today.
    No meeting next week - Will update after F2F
    Also add F2F demos too!

  • Daylight saving time switch over happens next week!

• OSC SMO project calls now move to its own time slot - alternate 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

• See also OSC AIML Project meeting notes

• Note: ONAP wiki has moved from https://wiki.onap.org → https://lf-onap.atlassian.net/wiki so lots of old links will fail!

OSC Project roundup:

News from OSC TOC & OSFG & RSAC calls last week

• TOC:

  • https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TOC/#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)

  • Last week's TOC (Thursday):

    • @bimo fransiscus asisi requests all PTLs to complete a page on deployment

      • https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IAT/pages/70483970/Deployment+Guideline+Template  

      • Action: Todo!

    • Working on agenda for F2F demos Release "K"

      • Working with O-RAN for schedule

      • 2024-10 O-RAN F2F Montreal 

  • This week's TOC (Thursday):

    • F2F prep

    • Where to store files, recordings etc? e.g Google drive?

• OSFG:

  • Discussion about F2F

• RSAC (@Rittwik Jana  @Martin Skorupski )

  • Minutes: 2024 RSAC Meetings 

  • Discussion about F2F

NONRTRIC (@John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

• F2F: Updating & preparing demos.

  • Sorry still not ready to show here

• Still working away on issue from previous weeks:

  •  A1-Controller

    • Released a bug-release

    • ... then promptly found another bug. Work ongoing

SIM (@Alex Stancu)

• Working on Demos for F2F

OAM (@Martin Skorupski)

• Working on demos.

  • Preparing/hoping to use COSMOS lab for one of the demos

AI/ML platform project (@subhash )

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

• Working on integrating AIMLFW & NONRTRIC rApps for F2F.

  • Working in RanPM deployment & integration

    • Still hitting a few issues, but making progress.

    • Few differences deployments scripts - esp on RANPM. Will continue chatting with NONRTRIC team

• Waiting for O-RAN specs to be released. Not sure how/when specs are made available.

SMO (@Seshu Kumar Mudiganti)

• Meeting notes Meeting notes

• No specific update

  • Working with @Martin Skorupski to prepare demo videos for F2F

• @Seshu Kumar Mudiganti has a demo with the Tacker team

  • Will try to use an early (Thurs) slot for Toshi to demo 

• Topology & Inventory: (@John Keeney (Ericsson EST) :

  • Working on a sample rApp to demonstrate TEIV

    • Working on data & queries

  • From Last week - Still ongoing

    • Need to start working with others in OSC & beyond to help populate TEIV registry with data from their 'sources of truth'

    • Hope to make alot of use of TEIV in demos/rapps in K-Release

    • Refs:

      • doc: https://docs.o-ran-sc.org/projects/o-ran-sc-smo-teiv/en/latest/data-models-guide.html

      • code: https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=smo/teiv.git;a=tree;f=teiv/src/main/resources/models

OSC Integration / INT (@fransiscus bimo )

• Minutes: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/IAT/Current+Meetings

• No update

  • Prepping for F2F

Demo/Discussion - Some issues with deployment/use cases  @Sridhar Rao

• Will have a demo at O-RAN F2F. Will forward slides/video soon.

• Working on some 'user experience' docs, videos etc.

• Some issues:

  • Followup:

    • 1: RANPM - image 'kafka-producer-pm-xml2json' image consumes massive resources if left running - even with no load

      • Fixed: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/browse/NONRTRIC-1036 Please check for maintenance release of affected functions.

    • 4: RANPM Datafile Collector. Some tests are failing. @Sridhar Rao will update with a change upstream

      • No update

    • 5: RANPM PM Logger/Influx Logger  After some time sometime fails to get a token - then fails after that.

      • Hard to reproduce. @Sridhar Rao will keep trying

      • No update

Other Questions / Comments / AOB:

• @subhash: Any Plan for NONRTRIC ICS (Information Coordinator Service) R1 compliant?

  • @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) No immediate plan - hard to find resources.

  • @subhash May be able to help - Very Welcome! Please do

• @subhash Can anyone help setting up a Python project1?

  • e.g. enabling / releasing to pip?

Meeting ends 20 min