LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS

The present invention provides a life cycle management method and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving a life cycle management operation request for a first virtualized network function VNF instance, where the life cycle management operation request includes an instance identifier ID of the...

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Main Authors LI, Shitao, GAUTAM, Deepanshu
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 23.09.2020
Subjects
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRICITY
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
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Summary:The present invention provides a life cycle management method and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving a life cycle management operation request for a first virtualized network function VNF instance, where the life cycle management operation request includes an instance identifier ID of the first VNF instance and an operation type; determining, according to a correspondence between an instance ID of a VNF instance and a life cycle management operation type, that the operation type falls within life cycle management operation types corresponding to the instance ID, where the life cycle management operation type in the correspondence represents that the life cycle management operation type is authorized by an authorization subject; and initiating a resource operation request to a virtualized infrastructure manager VIM, where the resource operation request includes the instance ID.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20160827072