Hello all,
Let’s suppose I would like to instantiate a new service based on a “Service Specification Catalog” offering and communicate it to an external orchestrator, rather than the 5GASP facilities. Is this possible?
Thanks in advance,
Dilara Moss
Hi Dilara,
In the 5GASP platform, for every service offering (regardless of VNF/REST etc), you must first design the respective service specification and eventually expose it in a respective catalog/category.
As a designer, you may leverage the LCM rule tab (see here) to inject dynamic orchestration actions (including REST requests) at specific waypoints within the lifecycle of the service.
What is crucial for a non NFV-based service design (where the service status is not handled by the NFV Orchestrator), in case you want to automatically get to an active state without human interaction after deployment, you have to explicitly specify “OSAUTOMATED” as a characteristic in the respective list.
Other characteristics can be added and exposed to the customer through the service order menu (configurable checkbox) to enable initial parameterized input, if needed. This input (characteristics) can be leveraged through the LCM rules to execute specific functionality.
Kind Regards,
Kostis Trantzas