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NSP Workflow Design and Management

Course number: OS00105-V
Course duration:  2 days
Price: €1,600

Course overview

This course is intended to enable the learner to understand the concepts and technologies associated with the NSP Workflow Manager. The course explores how the NSP Workflow Manager allows the design and management of “workflows” to automate network operations. Discover the workflow structure and related technologies such as Mistral, YAML, and JSON. Learn Mistral DSL advanced concepts, actions, expression functions, and NSP actions and expression functions to design your workflows. See how the Workflow Manager (WFM) provides a user-friendly interface to design, create, execute, and manage workflows. Explore WFM-enhanced functionality such as environments, Kafka triggers, and Jinja2 templates. Demo workflows execute multiple use cases, such as commissioning a Nokia 7750, CFlash drive cleanup, and SSH user creation.  This course version is based on 24.8.

Course objectives

After completing the course, students should be able to:
 

  • Explain what Workflow Manager (WFM) can be used for
  • Discuss the relationship between the technologies that can be used in a workflow
  • Define common Workflow terminology
  • Describe the workflow structure
  • Examine standard and NSP Actions
  • Examine standard and NSP Expression functions
  • Describe and demonstrate usage of the Visual Studio Code extension
  • Demonstrate enhanced WFM functionalities Environments Kafka Triggers Interactive Workflows Jinja2 Templates
  • Construct basic workflows in the NSP WFM
  • Practice cloning, editing, changing status and executing workflows.
  • Create Workflow Manager policies
  • Interpret and view workflow flow diagrams.

Course modules

Module 1 - Introduction

  • Workflow Manager (WFM) introduction
  • Technologies used in WFM


Module 2 - Workflow basics

  • Basic elements of workflows
  • User Interface (UI) basic functionalities


Module 3 - Additional workflow concepts

  • Additional workflow concepts


Module 4 - Standard actions and expression functions

  • Standard actions
  • Standard expression functions
  • Ad-hoc actions


Module 5 - NSP actions and expression functions

  • File system access
  • Nodal communication
  • API calls
  • Miscellaneous NSP actions and expression functions
     

Module 6 - WFM enhanced functionality

  • User Interface (UI) enhanced functionalities
  • Use cases
  • Visual Studio Code extension for WFM