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This page contains the instructions to use the Portal's Service Management.

Network Services

This section of the Portal englobes the network services and their related instances.

Services

This subsection of the Portal displays the list of all the network services uploaded to the platform. Every element of the list can be selected and with this, the user will enter a detailed view mode to check all the relevant information and the composing VNFs.

The page includes a search field and a reload button so that the user can refresh the list whenever desired. Besides, there is a play button for each element displayed that triggers the element instantiation menu. This last will request all the required data to instantiate a network service such as:

  • The ingress, egress and blacklist endpoints which are an optional input
  • Custom parameters for the instantiation, which are also an optional input
  • The instance name which is mandatory
  • The SLA to be used which is mandatory only in the case there is an SLA template defined and related to that network service.

Instances

This section of the Portal displays the list of all the network service instances made to the moment. Every element of the list can be selected so that the user can check all the relevant information and the VNF and CNF instances related. These last can also be selected and a hidden menu will be displayed with their most important information.

The page includes a search field and a reload button so that the user can refresh the list whenever desired. Besides, instances with state different from "TERMINATED" will display a button to allow the instance termination.

Network Slices

This section of the Portal englobes the network slices and their related instances.

Templates

This subsection of the Portal displays the list of all the network slice templates. Every element of the list can be selected so that the user can check all the relevant information, including the composing network services and the defined virtual links.

The page includes a search field and a reload button so that the user can refresh the list whenever desired. Besides, each element displayed includes a button to instantiate so that a new instance will be created in the instances subsection. After clicking this button, a new menu will be opened where all the required data will be requested:

  • The ingress and egress endpoints which are an optional input
  • The SLA to be used for each service, which is mandatory only in the case there is an SLA template defined and related to that network service.
  • The VIM where each network service must be instantiated, which is an optional field
  • Custom parameters for each network service, which is an optional field
  • Instance name and description which are mandatory

Instances

This subsection of the Portal displays the list of all the slice instances. Every element of the list can be selected so that the user can check all the relevant information, including the composing network services and the defined virtual links.

The page includes a search field and a reload button so that the user can refresh the list whenever desired. Besides, elements with state different from "TERMINATED" will display a button to allow the instance termination.

Requests

This section of the Portal displays the list of all the requests made to the moment. Every element of the list can be selected so that the user can check all the relevant information.

The page includes a search field and a reload button so that the user can refresh the list whenever desired.

Licenses

This section of the Portal displays the list of all the created licenses. Every element of the list can be selected so that the user can check all the relevant information.

The page includes a search field and a reload button so that the user can refresh the list whenever desired. Besides, the elements with type different from "public", this are "private" and "trial", include a button to buy the license.

Regarding the license creation, the user can create them through the SLA template creation page in the Service Platform menu. There is no need to include SLA related parameters, just to fulfill the licensing part.

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