Introduction

Purpose of This Document

This documentation describes how to integrate Paragon Active Assurance with a network service orchestrator via the Control Center NETCONF & YANG API. Hands-on examples are given of the principal tasks involved, including: creating and deploying Virtual Test Agents, running tests and monitors, and retrieving results from these activities.

In this document, the freely available Python NETCONF client ncclient is used in the role of orchestrator.

Conventions

The following abbreviations are used in this document:

Abbreviation	Meaning
CLI	Command Line Interface
EM	Element Manager
ES	Errored Second
MEP	MEG (Maintenance Entity Group) End Point (ITU-T Y.1731 definition)
	or Maintenance End Point (Cisco definition)
NFV	Network Function Virtualization
NFVO	Network Function Virtualization Orchestrator
NSD	Network Service Descriptor
RPC	Remote Procedure Call
SIP	Session Initiation Protocol
SLA	Service Level Agreement
S-VNFM	Special VNF Manager
VNF	Virtual Network Function
vTA	Virtual Test Agent

Notes on Backward Compatibility

In versions 2.35.4/2.36.0 of the NETCONF & YANG API, the validation of certain requests was made more stringent to adhere to the NETCONF standard. This means that client code based on older versions of this guide might now be rejected.

For example, in previous Python example code, no namespace attribute was provided. The namespace now needs to be supplied in the request XML whenever you want to modify a ConfD resource.