Work Package 3 - Service Management Layer
The expected result from this work package is the design and development of the service management layer. We plan to produce a service management layer able to transfer the appliance management burden to the service provider (without sacrificing security, privacy or flexibility). This management layer will allow remote service installation/upgrade, remote service activation, integrated service billing and integrated service monitoring. The workpackage comprises five modules:
Requirements Analysis
Requirements evaluation in order to establish a coherent list of required value-added management functionalities.
Evaluation and selection of potential components
A search will be conducted to identify a list of public-domain projects and solutions compatible with the requirements identified in the previous subtask. Each software module/solution will constitute a potential candidate to be integrated in the final design specification – to achieve that it must go through several rigorous tests in order to certify that its behaviour, compatibility and performance are compliant with the requirements it is meant to address. As a result of this effort, a list of components considered adequate for production will be generated, along with the identification of which requirements remain unaddressed.
Architecture Specification
Once all components considered adequate for the purposes of the project are identified, it must be specified how they will interact between them and fit into the final solution. In this subtask the service and manageability layers will be specified, along with other aspects related to the system management procedures, like the packaging format for installable modules, its installation/download procedure, selective (de)activation mechanisms, and configuration.
Development of the Service Management Layer
Following the architectural guidelines specified in the precedent subtask, the software layer will be built, incorporating the previously selected components and developing additional modules for management interfaces, integration, and all features that remained unaddressed after extensive component search and testing.
Stress, integration and validation tests
After the service and management framework has been implemented it will be submitted to a series of validation tests.