2 OCNWDAF Features
This chapter lists the added or updated features in Release 24.2.x. For more information about the features, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide.
Release 24.2.2
There are no new features or enhancements in this release.
Release 24.2.0
Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function (OCNWDAF) 24.2.0 is updated with the following enhancements:
- Deployment in OCI using OCI Adaptor: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a set of complementary cloud services that enable you to build and run a range of applications and services in a High Availability (HA) hosted environment. OCNWDAF can be integrated into the OCI using the OCI Adaptor. For more information on deploying OCNWDAF on OCI , see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide and Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide.
- Support for TLS 1.3: Network Functions (NFs) or peers use Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) to establish secured ingress and egress connections with consumer NFs and producer NFs, respectively. These communication protocols are encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS). The OCNWDAF now supports TLS 1.3 on the Ingress and Egress interfaces. For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide. To configure TLS 1.3 support, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide .
- Support for Model C Communication: 5G Service Based Interface (SBI) communication models are used to establish connections among NFs and NF services. These communication models facilitate consumer NFs to route service requests to producer NFs either directly or indirectly through the Service Communication Proxy (SCP). The OCNWDAF now supports the Model C communication model. Model C is an indirect communication model in which consumers can query the NRF to perform NF discovery (delegated discovery) or the consumers can directly send service requests to the SCP without NRF discovery. The SCP is located between the OCNWDAF and the producer NFs, and data is collected from them. OCNWDAF supports the "3gpp-Sbi-Binding" 5G SBI custom header. This header contains a comma-delimited list of Binding Indications from an HTTP server for storage and use of HTTP clients. For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide. To enable or disable this feature, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide.
- SNMP Support: Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an application-layer protocol designed for monitoring and managing network devices within a Local Area Network (LAN) or Wide Area Network (WAN). OCNWDAF forwards the Prometheus alerts as Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps to the southbound SNMP servers. The Prometheus Alert Manager is integrated with Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Cloud Native Environment (CNE) snmp-notifier service. The external SNMP servers are set up to receive the Prometheus alerts as SNMP traps. For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide.
- Enhanced NF Load Analytics: The Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director (OCNADD) can be configured as a data source for NF load analytics. When OCNADD is configured as a data source, the NF Load Analytics information in the OCNWDAF GUI is enhanced to include information such as Round Trip Time (RTT), Observed Transactions Per Second (OTPS), NF Load information, and Error Rates (only for UDM). A graphical representation of all these NF Load analytics parameters is displayed on the OCNWDAF GUI. The OCNADD has to be configured with specific filters and correlations for this enhancement. A new ML model, SARIMAX, is introduced for NF Load analytics. For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide.
- Upgrade Support: The OCNWDAF now supports upgrade from the previous release. The preupgrade tasks, upgrade procedure, and the supported upgrade paths are documented in the Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide.
- OCNWDAF GUI Enhancements: The OCNWDAF GUI is enhanced with the following changes:
- The OCNWDAF GUI is enhanced with two new pages for Dashboard and Alerts. The Dashboard page displays OCNWDAFs Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), offers the option to view real-time data, and allows users to filter the KPIs based on time interval, KPI interval, and refresh rate. The Alerts page displays the list of alerts generated by OCNWDAF.
- The Slice Load Monitoring page displays different visualization styles of slice data. The Slice Load Monitoring Page now contains three tabs Active Slices, Line Chart, and Tracking Areas.
- The NF Load Dashboard screen displays the NF Load information, that includes NF instances, NF load level as peak and average load values, it has been enhanced to display graphs of Round Trip Time, Observed Transactions Per Second, Error Count (only for UDM), and NF Load. You can also obtain predictive analytics information by providing a Start Time and Forecasting Period in the GUI.
- The Machine Learning (ML) Model Selector page is updated with a new ML Model "SARIMAX" for NF Load analytics.
For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide.