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

Time & Location:

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Date

22 Oct 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

• Recording (MP4 - lores)

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: 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: NONRTRIC-1036 - Getting issue details... STATUS 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