Doctor Platform Overview¶
Doctor platform components and features¶
Features¶
Doctor platform, as of Brahmaputra release, provides the two features:
- Immediate Notification
- Consistent resource state awareness (Compute/host-down)
These features enable high availability of Network Services on top of the virtualized infrastructure. Immediate notification allows VNF managers (VNFM) to process recovery actions promptly once a failure has occurred. Consistency of resource state is necessary to properly execute recovery actions properly in the VIM.
Components¶
Doctor platform, as of Brahmaputra release, consists of the following components:
- OpenStack Compute (Nova)
- OpenStack Telemetry (Ceilometer)
- OpenStack Alarming (Aodh)
- Doctor Inspector
- Doctor Monitor
Note
Doctor Inspector and Monitor are sample implementation for reference.
You can see an overview of the Doctor platform and how components interact in
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Fig. 1 Doctor platform and typical sequence (Brahmaputra)¶
Detailed information on the Doctor architecture can be found in the Doctor requirements documentation: http://artifacts.opnfv.org/doctor/docs/requirements/05-implementation.html
