Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Title and Copyright Information
• What's New in This Release
• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 References
  • 1.2 Acronyms and definitions
  • 1.3 Terminology
  • 1.4 Limitations
  • 1.5 My Oracle Support
• 2 Virtual Network Functions Manager Overview
  • 2.1 Advantage of Using VNFM
• 3 VNFM Lifecycle Management Interfaces
• 4 VNFM OpenStack Prerequisites
  • 4.1 Prerequisite for Multiqueue on IPFE
  • 4.2 Enabling the Multiqueue Feature on IPFEs
• 5 Install and Configure VNFM
  • 5.1 Access VNFM Using the REST Interface
  • 5.2 VNFM Redundancy
  • 5.3 Configurable Server Affinity Policy
  • 5.4 VNFc Nomenclature
  • 5.5 Supported VNFs by VNFM
• 6 Upgrading VNFM
• 7 VNFM User Management
  • 7.1 Access Control in VNFM
  • 7.2 Login to VNFM
  • 7.3 Register to VNFM
  • 7.4 Query All User Instances
  • 7.5 Change Password of the User
  • 7.6 Provision and Add User to VNFM
• 8 VNFM State Information
  • 8.1 Change VNFM State
    • 8.1.1 VNFM State Parameter Description
  • 8.2 Making VNFM as a Standalone VNFM
  • 8.3 Changing the Default Retry Configuration
• 9 Deploying VNFs
  • 9.1 Create a VNF Instance
  • 9.2 Query VNF Instance
    • 9.2.1 Query Individual VNF Instance
    • 9.2.2 Query All VNF Instances
  • 9.3 Modify VNF Information Operation
  • 9.4 Deleting a VNF Instance
  • 9.5 Instantiating VNFM Secondary
    • 9.5.1 Sample Request for DYNAMIC IP Model
    • 9.5.2 Sample Request for FIXED IP Model
      • 9.5.2.1 Dynamic and Fixed IP Deployment Parameter Description
  • 9.6 Instantiating the Network OAM VNF
  • 9.7 Instantiating the DR Network OAM VNF
    • 9.7.1 Determining the DR NOAM XMI Resource IDs
  • 9.8 Instantiating the Signaling VNF with Multiple XSI (1, 2 & 4 XSI Interface)
    • 9.8.1 Determine the NOAM XMI Resource IDs
    • 9.8.2 Signaling VNF with Multiple XSI Support
    • 9.8.3 Instantiating the Signaling VNF with Service MP deployment
  • 9.9 Instantiating Multiple Signaling VNFs
  • 9.10 Instantiating the IDIH VNF
    • 9.10.1 Determining the Signaling IMI Resource ID:
  • 9.11 Instantiating the SDS Network OAM VNF
  • 9.12 Target set Address Configuration
    • 9.12.1 IPFE Target Sets Configuration
    • 9.12.2 Sample Request for Signaling Flavor DIAMETER
  • 9.13 Instantiating the SDS DR Network OAM VNF
    • 9.13.1 Determining the SDS DR NOAM XMI Resource IDs
  • 9.14 Instantiating the SDS Signaling VNF
    • 9.14.1 Determining the Signaling IMI Resource IDs
    • 9.14.2 Determining the SDS NOAM XMI Resource IDs
  • 9.15 Instantiating the ATS Master VNF
  • 9.16 Non-ConfigDrive VNF Instantiation
  • 9.17 Scale VNF to Level (Only Scale Out)
    • 9.17.1 Scale VNF to Level using InstantiationLevelId for DSR Signaling
    • 9.17.2 Scale VNF to Level using ScaleInfo
    • 9.17.3 IPFE and Service Mp Scale from Sizing 0
  • 9.18 Operate VNF
    • 9.18.1 Operate VNF Parameter Descriptions
• 10 VNF Instantiation across Multi Cloud / Multi Tenant
• 11 Heal VNF
• 12 Query Heal VNF Requests
  • 12.1 Heal VNF Parameter Descriptions
• 13 Discover Stack
• 14 Query LCM Operation
  • 14.1 Query Individual LCM Operation
  • 14.2 Query All LCM Operation
  • 14.3 VNFM Get Operation Status
• 15 Terminating a VNF
  • 15.1 Forceful Termination
  • 15.2 Graceful Termination
• 16 Segregation of OAM and Replication Traffic Support
  • 16.1 Sample request for DYNAMIC IP model of NOAM VNF in Dual Subnet
  • 16.2 Sample request for DYNAMIC IP model of NOAM VNF in Single Subnet
  • 16.3 Sample request for FIXED IP model of NOAM VNF in Dual Subnet
  • 16.4 Sample request for FIXED IP model of NOAM VNF in Single Subnet
  • 16.5 Sample request for Signaling flavor DIAMETER with multiple xsi for dynamic IP in Dual Subnet deployment model
  • 16.6 Sample request for Signaling flavor DIAMETER with multiple xsi for dynamic IP in Single Subnet deployment model
  • 16.7 Sample request for Signaling flavor DIAMETER with multiple xsi for fixed IP in Dual Subnet deployment model
  • 16.8 Sample request for Signaling flavor DIAMETER with multiple xsi for fixed IP in Single Subnet deployment model
  • 16.9 Sample request for DSR DR NOAM for Dynamic IP in Mix Mode Subnet deployment model
  • 16.10 Sample request for DSR DR NOAM for Fixed IP in Dual Subnet deployment model
• 17 Changing the Default Configurations
  • 17.1 Changing Profile Name
  • 17.2 Enable VNFM Logs with Different Log Levels (DEBUG, TRACE, WARN, ERROR)
  • 17.3 Changing the Full Semantic Validation Configuration
• 18 VNFM SNMP ALERTS
  • 18.1 VNFM Alarms
  • 18.2 VNFM MIB File
• 19 Import HTTPS/SSL Certificate into VNFM
  • 19.1 Recombine Existing PEM Keys and Certificates into VNFM
  • 19.2 Copy Created Certificate (vnfm_default.jks) into VNFM
  • 19.3 VNFM Self Signed Certificate Generation
• 20 Multiple HTTPS/SSL Certificate Support
  • 20.1 Configurable Keystore
• 21 NOAM IPv6 Migration
• 22 Troubleshooting VNFM
  • 22.1 Debug VNFM
  • 22.2 Adding Route for a New VIM
  • 22.3 Reboot Tomcat
  • 22.4 Resolve HA Alarms on VNF through VNFM Deployed Setup
  • 22.5 Adding a Port in Openstack Security Groups
  • 22.6 Debug SNMP System Alerts
  • 22.7 Configure Flavor and Instantiation Levels in VNFM
  • 22.8 Configuring DNS IP in VNFM
  • 22.9 Disable SSH Weak Key Exchange Algorithms
  • 22.10 Add or Update Certification