Designer Tools Overview

Designer Tools are a suite of GUI-based tools that enable network designers to support virtualized network functions (VNFs) and network services in CSO. Designer Tools comprise the following:

• Configuration Designer, which is used to define and publish multivendor configuration templates.

  Note The published configuration templates can be used in device templates in CSO (through the stage-2 configuration) or when building VNF packages using Resource Designer.

• Resource Designer, which is used to create, validate, and publish multivendor virtualized network function (VNF) packages.

• Network Services Designer (NSD), which is used to create and manage multivendor network services and service chains.

Procedure

1. Use Configuration Designer to:

   Procedure

   1. Create a configuration design request.
   2. Use Configuration Designer to publish the configuration templates.
2. Use Resource Designer to:

   Procedure

   1. Create a VNF package request.
   2. Validate, and publish VNF packages to NSD.
3. Use NSD to:

   Procedure

   1. Create a network service design requests by using the VNFs from Resource Designer and (optionally) configuration templates.
   2. Build and publish the network services to CSO
4. Service Provider administrators use Administration Portal to assign a set of network services to their customers.
5. Tenant administrators use Customer Portal to access the assigned network services to manage their sites and services.

Figure 1: Designer Tools Workflow

Related Documentation

• Configuration Designer Overview

• Resource Designer Overview

• Network Service Designer Overview