See also: JIRA link: NONRTRIC-965 - Getting issue details... STATUS

How to use the NONRTRIC Information Coordination Service (ICS)

The Basics

What is it (Data management and exposure) Service that manages data subscriptions. It separates data consumers from data producers (for different vendor). Data consumer doesn't need to be aware of where the data source.
Historical names: Information Coordinator Service (ICS), Enrichment Information Coordinator.

Repository and documentation about the service can be found at:

Terminology:

Information Type: Represents the types of data that can be produced by data producers and consumed by data consumers.
Information Job: Represents an active data subscription by a data consumer, specifying the type of data to be produced and additional parameters for filtering.
Data Consumer: Represents entities that consume data and manage data subscription jobs.
Data Producer: Represents entities that produce data.

API offered in ICS:

Data producer API:
- Information Type and Information Producer
  - Producer CALLBACKS: GET healthcheck (supervision); Information Job Creation/Modification/Delete.
Data consumer API:
- Information Type Subscription Creation/Modification/Delete (REGISTERED/UNREGISTERED); Information Job (Creation/Modification/Delete) and GET Information Type
  - Consumer CALLBACKS: POST Information Type Status: REGISTERED/UNREGISTERED invoked when a Information type status has been changed
Service status API:
- Returns statistics such as Number of Producers Types and Jobs

ICS Docker Image:

1. Building the docker image from source and run it on port 8083 http

git clone "https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/nonrtric/plt/informationcoordinatorservice"
cd informationcoordinatorservice
mvn clean install
docker run -d -p 8083:8083 o-ran-sc/nonrtric-plt-informationcoordinatorservice:latest

Or use the pre-built image

docker run -d -p 8083:8083 nexus3.o-ran-sc.org:10001/o-ran-sc/nonrtric-plt-informationcoordinatorservice:1.6.0

2. Import the swagger.json in Postman (informationcoordinatorservice/api/ics-api.json) as an OpenAPI3.0
3. Replace the baseUrl with http://localhost:8083 (in the Data management and exposure variables), and change accordingly {{infoTypeId}} from :infoTypeId
Other variables will be :{{infoJobId }}/{{infoProducerId}}/{{infoTypeId}}/{{subscriptionId}} etc

ICS flow:

a) Create a type (PUT /info-types)
b) Create a producer (PUT /info-producers) {supports type for filtering}
c) Create a job (PUT /info-jobs) {consumer subscription}

ICS type:
Stores the data schema of what's sent between the producer and consumer.

PUT {{baseUrl}}/data-producer/v1/info-types/{{infoTypeId}}
Body:

{ "info_job_data_schema": { "topicName": "example_topic", "key": "example_key", "message": "example_message" }, "info_type_information": {} }

Onboarding a producer in ICS:

PUT {{baseUrl}}/data-producer/v1/info-producers/{{infoProducerId}}
Body:

{
  "supported_info_types": ["example_info_type_id"],
  "info_job_callback_url": "http://example.com/job_callback", //POST JobCallbackUrl() + "/" + infoJob.getId();
  "info_producer_supervision_callback_url": "http://example.com/producer_supervision_callback"
}

"jobCallbackUrl" and "producerSupervisionCallbackUrl" are used for communication between a service and external producers in the context of the Information Control Service (ICS).

jobCallbackUrl: This URL serves as a callback endpoint for the producer. When the service needs to communicate or interact with the producer regarding a specific job, it sends requests to this URL. In the stopInfoJob() method, the service constructs a URL by appending the job ID to the jobCallbackUrl of the producer. Then it sends a DELETE request to this URL, effectively stopping the job. In the startInfoJob() method, the service sends a POST request to the jobCallbackUrl to start a job in the producer.
producerSupervisionCallbackUrl: This URL is used for health checks or supervision purposes. The service can send requests to this URL to check the health or status of the producer. In the healthCheck() method, the service sends a GET request to the producerSupervisionCallbackUrl to check the health of the producer.

In summary, both URLs facilitate communication between the service and external producers, enabling actions like starting and stopping jobs, as well as monitoring the health and status of the producers.

Giving the consumer a job definition:

PUT {{baseUrl}}/data-consumer/v1/info-jobs/{{infoJobId}}
Body:

{
  "info_type_id": "example_info_type_id",
  "job_owner": "example_owner",
  "job_definition": {
    "example_key1": "example_value1",
    "example_key2": "example_value2"
  },
  "job_result_uri": "http://example.com/job_result",
  "status_notification_uri": "http://example.com/status_notification"
}

1. Authorization check: POST to the Authentication Agent (from the starting config config/application.yaml )
2. Validation: The URLs are used only for URI validation
3. Consumer starts a job on the Producer POST producerCallbacks.startInfoSubscriptionJob->restClient.post(producer.getJobCallbackUrl(), jobCallbackBody(infoJob))

Non-Realtime RIC

Release J: Simple guide how to use ICS - Information Coordinator Service