2024-07-31 Meeting notes

Agenda:

Toshi San would be the point of contact for us to handle the Tacker related issues under SMO.

F2F meeting in Oct in Montreal

Target and Showcase the demos for the

TE&IV demo (may be through simulators) - John K
1. Standalone demo of the TE&IV FW code with the sample schema and models - 28th August
  1. story around the RAN CNFs and their relations across the deployments
  2. RAN functions (across cloudsite) deployed as CNFs and query their Topography
  3. rApps and Non-RT RiC integration capabilities across the SMO and RIC
2. Usecase defined models to be incorporated and showcase the Capabilities once the sample data are available (Stretch)
  1. Topo info is loaded we can showcase of the CNF migration across the subclouds (also at the Geo-Distributed arena)
  2. sync DMS data between Tacker and datastore model (draft version) and show the effects of that on the CNFs - (long run goal)
SMO O2 (FOCOM and NFO (K8s)) demo of the IMS and DMS (as a possibility) - Seshu
Nephio integration with the OSC-SMO (as a stretch and possible idea for the demo) - Seshu
Demo on Tacker for DMS ETSi profile. - Kuno san - Video 14th August
1. FM:
  1. Fault mgmt we can have the demo - we will focus on the faults of the Workload and listing them
  2. To have the Tacker being able to handle (core-relate, handle like in control) the faults and manage it (Stretch goal).
2. PM:
  1. J release code would be used to demo based on Tacker
  2. Client side impl would be required and can be targeted by the demo time.
Secure communication between the modules - this is in general between the OSC components. (Stretch Goal across the ORAN-SC modules)
1. Dmaap - Kafka messaging
2. Strimzi based comm as an extension to the above one.
3. this needs to be implemented across the OSC components (like pub-sub)

J-Release updates

https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=smo%2Fo2.git;a=shortlog;h=refs%2Fheads%2Fj-release - Seshu

J release build jobs update - Toshi

release notes merge - Seshu

J Release#ServiceManagementandOrchestrationLayer(SMO) - Seshu

Update with the latest info -Toshi

NFO checkin

helm application re-alignment. (I41b1fb72) · Gerrit Code Review (o-ran-sc.org) - resolved

Next step would be to have the code tested on the OAI lab - Vamshi & Shashi

TE&IV

SMO-TEIV: Add jenkins jobs (maven, docker, sonar) (Ib97f2120) · Gerrit Code Review (o-ran-sc.org) - resolved

Minor issues with the code coverage that are being tracked with the LFN team - John

we would have detailed code walk through sessions further on this in future. - John and Aravind.

DMS Fault Mgmt ETSi Profile

Would use the sample app to be provided for the current release to test the Fault mgmt,

Sample app to be uploaded - Toshi

In the future we would be using the OAI DU for the E2E testing of this feature - Seshu.

Performance Mgmt on ETSi once the standards are ready and strategy for the K release and beyond. - Kuno san

Discuss with Tata (with Intus - Taiwan University) on the ETSi - OSM - on the SMO work. - David to provide the contact?

ONAP and OSM to see how to work together is to be analyzed.

5th June

TE&IV and SMO discussion continuation

Seed code is checked-in and review
1. it seems ok to have it in? - Seshu
  1. https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/c/smo/o2/+/12927
  2. The comment was the ease of understanding would be better to have the doc for larger understanding
  3. Please provide overview intro for the larger audience understanding
  4. Slides:
2. Would discuss the details - John
  1. TEIV Seed code:
    1. There you will see a root maven pom.xml file to build the functions.
      I’ve created a JIRA ticket at https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/SMO-147
  2. The early documentation is in progress
  3. further would be prepared in parallel that includes overview and usage details
Discussion on the Perf data for Tacker - Toshi
1. we will use the OAI DU (CU) for onboarding in the next release through Tacker.
2. O2 perf data (ETSi) examination would be next release candidate
3. Need help in improving the documentation in this release.