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AAI Architecture in ONAP
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AAI provides ONAP with its logically centralized view of inventory data, taking in updates from orchestrators, controllers, and assurance systems. With that responsibility, it takes on a key data management role, providing the ONAP components not only the current “as-built” view of the services, but also the view into the data of the system itself; it’s integrity, it’s chronology, and where the source of the information can be found.
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AAI's Role in ONAP
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AAI is where the data converges, where the pictures come together, and where the ONAP actor systems ask questions so they can make their decisions. As new network or data center resources become available, AAI is updated with their specifics via REST APIs. When new service types are designed, or new services instantiated, systems keep AAI up to date of their deployment at each step of the way. As telemetry is gathered for the services as well as their underlying infrastructure, the health and analytics conclusions reached are stored in AAI as state information. When assurance systems detect a failure, AAI is queried to determine the extent of the impact.