OPNFV Summit 2015

Doctor is an OPNFV project focusing on fault management and maintenance of Network Services on top of a virtualized infrastructure. Failure awareness is a key to achieve high reliability. Adopting virtualization technologies adds a new layer in the infrastructure separating applications from the underlying hardware. Thus, network services as an application may lose promptness and accuracy of the failure awareness. In Doctor, we started from identifying requirements for fault management, aligned the specifications between OSS and SDO, and finally got our proposed features implemented in the upstream OSS.
In this talk, we'll present an overview of the Doctor project including the technical requirements for NFV in a fault management and maintenance context, a demo of an integrated Doctor framework, and lessons learned on how we successfully got our features implemented in the upstream OSS.