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+.. This work is licensed under a
+.. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
+
+.. _apex-s3p-label:
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 2
+
+Policy APEX PDP component
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Both the Stability and the Performance tests were executed in a full ONAP OOM deployment in Nordix lab.
+
+Setup Details
++++++++++++++
+
+Deploying ONAP using OOM
+------------------------
+
+APEX-PDP along with all policy components are deployed as part of a full ONAP OOM deployment.
+At a minimum, the following ONAP components are needed: policy, mariadb-galera, aai, cassandra, aaf, and dmaap.
+
+Before deploying, the values.yaml files are changed to use NodePort instead of ClusterIP for policy-api,
+policy-pap, and policy-apex-pdp, so that they are accessible from jmeter::
+
+ policy-apex-pdp NodePort 10.43.131.43 <none> 6969:31739/TCP
+ policy-api NodePort 10.43.67.153 <none> 6969:30430/TCP
+ policy-pap NodePort 10.43.200.57 <none> 6969:30585/TCP
+
+The node ports (31739, 30430 and 30585 above) are used in JMeter.
+The HOSTNAMEs for JMeter are set to the IPs returned by running "kubectl get node -o wide"
+and to find the applications for each node by running "kubectl describe node <node-name>".
+
+Set up policy-models-simulator
+------------------------------
+
+Policy-models-simulator is deployed to use CDS and DMaaP simulators during policy execution.
+ Simulator configurations used are available in apex-pdp repository:
+ testsuites/apex-pdp-stability/src/main/resources/simulatorConfig/
+
+It is run as a docker image from a node accessible to the kubernetes cluster::
+
+ docker run -d --rm --publish 6680:6680 --publish 31054:3905 \
+ --volume "apex-pdp/testsuites/apex-pdp-stability/src/main/resources/simulatorConfig:/opt/app/policy/simulators/etc/mounted" \
+ nexus3.onap.org:10001/onap/policy-models-simulator:2.7-SNAPSHOT-latest
+
+The published ports 6680 and 31054 are used in JMeter for CDS and DMaaP simulators.
+
+Creation of VNF & PNF in AAI
+----------------------------
+
+In order for APEX-PDP engine to fetch the resource details from AAI during runtime execution, we need to create dummy
+VNF & PNF entities in AAI. In a real control loop flow, the entities in AAI will be either created during orchestration
+phase or provisioned in AAI separately.
+
+Download & execute the steps in postman collection for creating the entities along with it’s dependencies.
+The steps needs to be performed sequentially one after another. And no input is required from user.
+
+:download:`Create VNF & PNF in AAI for Apex S3P </development/devtools/postman/create-vnf-pnf-aai-for-apex-s3p.postman_collection.json>`
+
+Make sure to skip the delete VNF & PNF steps.
+
+JMeter Tests
+------------
+
+Two APEX policies are executed in the APEX-PDP engine, and are triggered by multiple threads during the tests.
+Both tests were run via jMeter.
+
+ Stability test script is available in apex-pdp repository:
+ testsuites/apex-pdp-stability/src/main/resources/apexPdpStabilityTestPlan.jmx
+
+ Performance test script is available in apex-pdp repository:
+ testsuites/performance/performance-benchmark-test/src/main/resources/apexPdpPerformanceTestPlan.jmx
+
+.. Note::
+ Policy executions are validated in a stricter fashion during the tests.
+ There are test cases where up to 80 events are expected on the DMaaP topic.
+ DMaaP simulator is used to keep it simple and avoid any message pickup timing related issues.
+
+Stability Test of APEX-PDP
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+
+Test Plan
+---------
+
+The 72 hours stability test ran the following steps.
+
+Setup Phase
+"""""""""""
+
+Policies are created and deployed to APEX-PDP during this phase. Only one thread is in action and this step is done only once.
+
+- **Create Policy onap.policies.apex.Simplecontrolloop** - creates the first APEX policy using policy/api component.
+ This is a sample policy used for PNF testing.
+- **Create Policy onap.policies.apex.Example** - creates the second APEX policy using policy/api component.
+ This is a sample policy used for VNF testing.
+- **Deploy Policies** - Deploy both the policies created to APEX-PDP using policy/pap component
+
+Main Phase
+""""""""""
+
+Once the policies are created and deployed to APEX-PDP by the setup thread, five threads execute the below tests for 72 hours.
+
+- **Healthcheck** - checks the health status of APEX-PDP
+- **Prometheus Metrics** - checks that APEX-PDP is exposing prometheus metrics
+- **Test Simplecontrolloop policy success case** - Send a trigger event to *unauthenticated.DCAE_CL_OUTPUT* DMaaP topic.
+ If the policy execution is successful, 3 different notification events are sent to *APEX-CL-MGT* topic by each one of the 5 threads.
+ So, it is checked if 15 notification messages are received in total on *APEX-CL-MGT* topic with the relevant messages.
+- **Test Simplecontrolloop policy failure case** - Send a trigger event with invalid pnfName to *unauthenticated.DCAE_CL_OUTPUT* DMaaP topic.
+ The policy execution is expected to fail due to AAI failure response. 2 notification events are expected on *APEX-CL-MGT* topic by a thread in this case.
+ It is checked if 10 notification messages are received in total on *APEX-CL-MGT* topic with the relevant messages.
+- **Test Example policy success case** - Send a trigger event to *unauthenticated.DCAE_POLICY_EXAMPLE_OUTPUT* DMaaP topic.
+ If the policy execution is successful, 4 different notification events are sent to *APEX-CL-MGT* topic by each one of the 5 threads.
+ So, it is checked if 20 notification messages are received in total on *APEX-CL-MGT* topic with the relevant messages.
+- **Test Example policy failure case** - Send a trigger event with invalid vnfName to *unauthenticated.DCAE_POLICY_EXAMPLE_OUTPUT* DMaaP topic.
+ The policy execution is expected to fail due to AAI failure response. 2 notification events are expected on *APEX-CL-MGT* topic by a thread in this case.
+ So, it is checked if 10 notification messages are received in total on *APEX-CL-MGT* topic with the relevant messages.
+- **Clean up DMaaP notification topic** - DMaaP notification topic which is *APEX-CL-MGT* is cleaned up after each test to make sure that one failure doesn't lead to cascading errors.
+
+
+Teardown Phase
+""""""""""""""
+
+Policies are undeployed from APEX-PDP and deleted during this phase.
+Only one thread is in action and this step is done only once after the Main phase is complete.
+
+- **Undeploy Policies** - Undeploy both the policies from APEX-PDP using policy/pap component
+- **Delete Policy onap.policies.apex.Simplecontrolloop** - delete the first APEX policy using policy/api component.
+- **Delete Policy onap.policies.apex.Example** - delete the second APEX policy also using policy/api component.
+
+Test Configuration
+------------------
+
+The following steps can be used to configure the parameters of test plan.
+
+- **HTTP Authorization Manager** - used to store user/password authentication details.
+- **HTTP Header Manager** - used to store headers which will be used for making HTTP requests.
+- **User Defined Variables** - used to store following user defined parameters.
+
+=================== ===============================================================================
+ **Name** **Description**
+=================== ===============================================================================
+ HOSTNAME IP Address or host name to access the components
+ PAP_PORT Port number of PAP for making REST API calls such as deploy/undeploy of policy
+ API_PORT Port number of API for making REST API calls such as create/delete of policy
+ APEX_PORT Port number of APEX for making REST API calls such as healthcheck/metrics
+ SIM_HOST IP Address or hostname running policy-models-simulator
+ DMAAP_PORT Port number of DMaaP simulator for making REST API calls such as reading notification events
+ CDS_PORT Port number of CDS simulator
+ wait Wait time if required after a request (in milliseconds)
+ threads Number of threads to run test cases in parallel
+ threadsTimeOutInMs Synchronization timer for threads running in parallel (in milliseconds)
+=================== ===============================================================================
+
+Run Test
+--------
+
+The test was run in the background via "nohup", to prevent it from being interrupted:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ nohup ./apache-jmeter-5.4.3/bin/jmeter.sh -n -t apexPdpStabilityTestPlan.jmx -l stabilityTestResults.jtl
+
+Test Results
+------------
+
+**Summary**
+
+Stability test plan was triggered for 72 hours. There were no failures during the 72 hours test.
+
+
+**Test Statistics**
+
+======================= ================= ================== ==================================
+**Total # of requests** **Success %** **Error %** **Average time taken per request**
+======================= ================= ================== ==================================
+430397 100 % 0.00 % 151.694 ms
+======================= ================= ================== ==================================
+
+.. Note::
+
+ There were no failures during the 72 hours test.
+
+**JMeter Screenshot**
+
+.. image:: apex-s3p-results/apex_stability_jmeter_results.png
+
+**Memory and CPU usage**
+
+The memory and CPU usage can be monitored by running "top" command in the APEX-PDP pod.
+A snapshot is taken before and after test execution to monitor the changes in resource utilization.
+Prometheus metrics is also collected before and after the test execution.
+
+Memory and CPU usage before test execution:
+
+.. image:: apex-s3p-results/apex_top_before_72h.png
+
+:download:`Prometheus metrics before 72h test <apex-s3p-results/apex_metrics_before_72h.txt>`
+
+Memory and CPU usage after test execution:
+
+.. image:: apex-s3p-results/apex_top_after_72h.png
+
+:download:`Prometheus metrics after 72h test <apex-s3p-results/apex_metrics_after_72h.txt>`
+
+Performance Test of APEX-PDP
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+Performance test of APEX-PDP is done similar to the stability test, but in a more extreme manner using higher thread count.
+
+Setup Details
+-------------
+
+The performance test is performed on a similar setup as Stability test.
+
+
+Test Plan
+---------
+
+Performance test plan is the same as the stability test plan above except for the few differences listed below.
+
+- Increase the number of threads used in the Main Phase from 5 to 20.
+- Reduce the test time to 2 hours.
+
+Run Test
+--------
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ nohup ./apache-jmeter-5.4.3/bin/jmeter.sh -n -t apexPdpPerformanceTestPlan.jmx -l perftestresults.jtl
+
+
+Test Results
+------------
+
+Test results are shown as below.
+
+**Test Statistics**
+
+======================= ================= ================== ==================================
+**Total # of requests** **Success %** **Error %** **Average time taken per request**
+======================= ================= ================== ==================================
+47567 100 % 0.00 % 163.841 ms
+======================= ================= ================== ==================================
+
+**JMeter Screenshot**
+
+.. image:: apex-s3p-results/apex_perf_jmeter_results.png
+
+Summary
++++++++
+
+Multiple policies were executed in a multi-threaded fashion for both stability and performance tests.
+Both tests ran smoothly without any issues.
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