Managing physical network functions

To manage a physical network function, do one of the following:

• On the administrator portal, go to the Catalog section, and in the Catalog pane, click the physical network function.
• When creating or editing a network service template in the topology, click the physical network function.
• When creating or editing a network service in the topology, click the physical network function.

Physical network function settings are displayed on the following tabs:

• Flavours contains flavours of the physical network function.
• VNF settings contains basic settings of the physical network function.

The following tabs are displayed if you clicked the physical network function in the topology of a deployed network service:

• Monitoring contains monitoring results of the physical network function.
• Problems contains problems that occurred during the operation of the physical network function. In case of any problems, a red exclamation mark is displayed next to the tab.

Additionally, the tabs that you specified in the user_configurations section of the PNF descriptor may be displayed.

Selecting the flavour of a physical network function

You can specify flavours in the flavours section of the PNF descriptor.

To select a physical network function flavour:

1. Navigate to the topology in one of the following ways:
   • Start creating or editing a network service template.
   • Start creating or editing a network service.
2. Click the physical network function for which you want to select a deployment option.

   The settings area is displayed in the lower part of the page. You can expand the settings area to fill the entire page by clicking the expand icon . By default, the Flavours tab is selected, which displays flavours.

3. Select a flavour for the physical network function.
4. In the upper part of the settings area, click Save to save physical network function settings.

Basic settings of a physical network function

To edit basic settings of the physical network function:

1. Navigate to the topology in one of the following ways:
   • Start creating or editing a network service template.
   • Start creating or editing a network service.
2. Click the physical network function for which you want to configure basic settings.

   The settings area is displayed in the lower part of the page. You can expand the settings area to fill the entire page by clicking the expand icon . By default, the Flavours tab is selected, which displays flavours.

3. Select the PNF settings tab.

   Basic settings of the physical network function are displayed.

4. In the Name field, enter the name of the physical network function.
5. In the Description field, enter a brief description of the physical network function.
6. In the Order field, enter the sequence number for deploying the physical network function on the OpenStack cloud platform. When you deploy a network service, the physical network function with the lowest number is the first to be deployed. If none of the physical network functions added to the topology have a sequence number specified, all physical network functions are deployed simultaneously.
7. In the upper part of the settings area, click Save to save physical network function settings.