This page describes the target use case for the OAM project to be demonstrated at the O-RAN Alliance face to face meeting in Montreal in the week Oct28 2024.
Objectives
This page is a working document to discussed and design the use cases and its components.
Use Case Description
Introduction
The O-RAN Alliance specifies two architectures or communications flows from O-RUs to the SMO for management traffic.
hierarchical All management traffic (OpenFronthaul Management Plane, OFHM) terminates at the O-DU. SMO OAM functions communicate with the O-RU only indirectly via the O-DU with the O-RU. Therefore the operations on O-RU data models are exposed by the O-DU using the RFC8528 YANG Schema Mount concept.
hybrid In such architecture some management traffic can by-pass the O-DU. SMO OAM functions can directly access the NETCONF Client of the O-RU. A typical use cases is software management. Which management traffic can by-pass the O-RU is handled by the Access Control configuration of the O-RU.