1. Cloud Native Core Release Notice
  2. Feature Descriptions

2 Feature Descriptions

This chapter provides a summary of each feature released in Cloud Native features release 2.2.1.

Automated Testing Suite (ATS)

ATS 1.2.0 has been updated with the following enhancements:
  • Provides NF Specific login support - Only NF specific pipelines are visible.
  • Provides RBAC authorization.
  • Allows to deploy ATS using either Helm2 or Helm3 helm versions.
  • Enables all the NF teams with the basic environment, framework and a GUI (Jenkins) to execute all the functional test cases.

Cloud Native Environment (CNE)

Cloud Native Environment (CNE) 1.5.0 provides the following major features in this release:
  • Enhanced Platform Alerts: Additional platform alerts were added to detect conditions where common services are working at reduced capacity or have failed.
  • DB Tier Overlay: A DB Tier Overlay was created to allow customers to install only the DB Tier, for cases where OC-CNE is not used. The DB Tier Overlay will install the DB Tier on KubeVirt VMs in the customer's CNE, so KubeVirt is required.
  • Fixed IP Support for vCNE: Customers have the option of selecting specific IP addresses to be used by the Bastion Host, Kubernetes primary and secondary nodes, and DB Tier nodes.
  • DB Tier Dual Channel HA Replication: Two replication channels are automatically established between mate sites. While only one channel will be active at a time, (as was the case in previous releases), a failure of the Active replication channel will be detected automatically, and the Standby channel promoted to Active, to keep cross-site replication in service. Manual repair of failed channels is required.

Cloud Native Core Console (CNCC)

Cloud Native Core Console (CNCC) 1.2.1 has been updated with the following enhancements:
  • Supports Aspen Service Mesh (ASM) integration
  • Supports OSO integration
Cloud Native Core Console (CNCC) 1.2.0 has been updated with the following enhancements:
  • Single Sign-On Support using SAML 2.0
  • Support for additional UDR Screens:
    • Global Configurations
    • Service Configurations
      • Data repository service
      • Notify service
      • NRF client service
  • Helm V3 Support and Custom Annotation and label support

Cloud Native Core Policy (CNC Policy)

CNC Policy 1.7.3 has been updated with the following enhancement:
  • Support integration with Aspen Service Mesh 1.4
CNC Policy 1.7.1 has been updated with the following enhancements:
  • Converged Policy Framework for PCF and cnPCRF
  • Two-phase deployment of policies
  • Support for CNE 1.5 platform
  • Import/Export enhancements for policies
  • Subscriber Activity Logging enhancements
  • PI-C Policy Actions and Conditions enhancements
  • Converged Policy Geo-redundancy Support
  • CN-PCRF API/PPI Support
  • Stale Session Handling Enhancements
  • Spending Limit Pending Counter Enhancements
  • Inter-working support with DRA for policy initiated requests

CNC NF Data Collector

CNC NF Data Collector collects Network Functions’ deployment data when NFs are deployed. Also, it collects logs, metrics, traces, and alerts when any functionality issue occurs after the NF deployment is complete. You can run CNC NF Data Collector to generate the required tarballs and examine the log files present in the tarballs for debugging purposes. Using this data, you can determine an NF issue by accessing logs, metrics, traces, and alerts of the NF.

CNC NF Data Collector consists of the following modules:
  • Network Function Deployment Data Collector
  • Network Function Logs, Metrics, Traces, Alerts Data Collector

Cloud Native Diameter Routing Agent (CnDRA)

There are no new features/updates implemented in CNC 2.2.1 release.

Binding Support Function (BSF)

Binding Support Function (BSF) 1.5.0 has below enhancements:
  • BSF related Configuration Management API/PPI enhancements
  • OAuth2 Support as producer NF in BSF
  • Integration with the latest NRF Client to comply with all new NRF client features
  • Autoscaling with liveness and readiness probe support

Inter-Working Function (IWF)

IWF 1.5.0 has been updated with the following enhancements:
  • Supports observability (Metrics, KPIs, Alerts, logging, SNMP MIBs ) with CNE.
  • Supports API gateway Integration

Network Exposure Function (NEF)

There are no new features/updates implemented in CNC 2.2.1 release.

Network Repository Function (NRF)

OCNRF 1.7.2 has been updated with the following enhancement:
  • Support for Aspen Service Mesh Integration
OCNRF 1.7.0 has been updated with the following enhancement:
  • OCNRF two Site Geo-Redundancy Support
  • Support for non-Geo-Redundant NRF Upgrade (OCNRF 1.7.0 will be fresh installation)
  • Support for adding Custom Labels and Annotation to Kubernetes Resources
  • Support for adding Prefix/Suffix to Container Names
  • Compatible with network functions which are compliant with Release 29.510 v15.5 (Sept 2019) version

Network Slice Selection Function (NSSF)

NSSF version 1.4.0 has been updated with the following enhancements:
  • Support for HTTP OPTIONS method for NS-Availability
  • Compliant to 29.531 version 15.5 with following assumption:
    • OCNSSF is currently not supporting Roaming and 5G to NON-5G handovers.

Service Communication Proxy (SCP)

SCP 1.7.5.1 is updated with the following changes:
  • Ingress gateway helm charts are updated to stop generation of netty metrics
  • SCPIngressGatewayPodMemoryUsage alert is added in SCP Alerts and Mib files to include memory usage alert for Ingress gateway
SCP 1.7.5 is updated with the following changes:
  • New metrics are added to calculate NF wide rate:
    • ocscp_metric_nf_total_http_tx_req
    • ocscp_metric_nf_total_http_rx_req
    • ocscp_metric_nf_total_http_rx_res
    • ocscp_metric_nf_total_http_tx_res
    • ocscp_metric_nf_total_http_rx_res_xx
    • ocscp_metric_nf_total_http_tx_res_xx
  • Alerts/Alarms are updated as follows:
    • Expressions updated with correct labels:
      • SCPSoothsayerNotificationPodMemoryUsage
      • SCPWorkerPodMemoryUsage
      • SCPPilotPodMemoryUsage
      • NFInstanceConnectionDown
    • Expression modified to use different function:
      • SCPInstanceDown
Refer to SCP User's Guide for more information.
SCP 1.7.3 has been updated with the following enhancement:
  • Aspen Service Mesh 1.4.6-am9 (ASM) Integration with OSO
SCP 1.7.2 has been updated with the following enhancements:
  • Cluster role binding is provided as optional feature
  • Use of Helm hooks for creating DB tables
  • Added new metrics and logs to enable debugging error scenarios
SCP 1.7.0 has been updated with the following enhancements:
  • Ingress Gateway support (optional) to increase per connection throughput
  • Mediation Enhancement for supporting 3GPP version level inter-operability
  • Support for mediation alerts and metrics
  • Enhance OCSCP helm chart labels and annotations as per new guideline

Security Edge Proxy Protection (SEPP)

There are no new features/updates implemented in CNC 2.2.1 release.

Unified Data Management (UDM)

There are no new features/updates implemented in CNC 2.2.1 release.

Unified Data Repository (UDR)

UDR 1.7.1 has been updated with the following enhancements:
  • Supports Aspen Service Mesh (ASM) integration
UDR 1.7.0 has been updated with the following enhancements:
  • Supports features enablement for UDR services
  • Supports SLFGroupName provisioning for SLF data
  • Integrated with CNC-Console for UDR configuration along with Provisioning
  • Integrated with Egress API gateway for egress traffic of UDR
  • Supports customizable labels and annotations for Helm charts
  • Supports Helm test for validating NF deployment
  • Supports Diameter Sh support for subscriber profile
  • Provisioning Gateway integrated with Egress API gateway
  • Provisioning Gateway supports SLF provisioning using SLFGroupName