[cssm] SACP: configuration of tranfer services

Colin.Haddow at esa.int Colin.Haddow at esa.int
Wed Feb 10 17:29:12 UTC 2021


Hi Marcin, Anthony,
                                      ESOC has effectivly moved to 
permanent SICfs. The NIS (Neywork Interface System - Handles MCS - 
Groundstation SLE links) was designed to be able to use dynamic as well as 
permanent SICFs and the missions screamed about the prospect of having to 
use dynamic ones, much preferring to use permanent ones.

Cheers for now,

Colin


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From:   "Anthony Crowson" <anthony.crowson at telespazio.de>
To:     "Marcin.Gnat at dlr.de" <Marcin.Gnat at dlr.de>, 
"smwg at mailman.ccsds.org" <smwg at mailman.ccsds.org>
Date:   10/02/2021 18:23
Subject:        Re: [cssm] SACP: configuration of tranfer services
Sent by:        "SMWG" <smwg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org>



Hi Marcin,
 
As I would see it, and as I think we had it in the old Blue-1 book, the 
service instance identifiers and the parameters you feel are missing are 
part of the service package, not the SA or CP. Your 3 spacecraft 
configurations would be 3 configuration profiles. The SP request may 
identify a specific station or antenna; at any rate, the SP itself will 
identify the aperture and the service instances, and at least port IDs. 
There was a discussion which I don?t think was ever fully resolved, about 
service instance identifiers. The original concept had them being 
dynamically defined for each service package. But the ?stop-gap? SICF 
approach ended up with people getting used to ?permanent? SI IDs and being 
reluctant to change that. Certainly I think it would be unhelpful to have 
to reproduce the same config multiple times just to use different SI IDs 
for different apertures. 
Basically what you suggest in your second and third bullets looks about 
right, modulo discussion on permanence of SI IDs.
 
I think the FRM parameters identified as just ?reporting? mean they cannot 
be changed during production. Clearly they have to be set somewhere, i.e. 
?by management?, as part of setting up the service packages.
 
Anthony
 
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Marcin.Gnat at dlr.de
Sent: 26 January 2021 15:32
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Subject: [cssm] SACP: configuration of tranfer services
 
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Dear SMWG,
 
In course of some implementation work and discussion with my developers, I 
came to the point where I think we shall have some closer discussion soon 
(in one of our teleconferences and definitely later during spring 
meetings).
 
The protagonist: configuration (profile) of the transfer service (known 
currently under nicknames ?SLE configuration? or ?SICF?).
 
The place and time: somewhere in snowy Bavaria during Winter 2020/2021, 
Corona situation.
 
The Synopsis: during implementation of VEEEEEERY remotely similar profiles 
into DLR?s new scheduling system, my developers asked me how they shall 
treat the Service Instance Identifiers in the profile. When I looked at 
their initial implementation, I noticed, that they did put the complete 
configuration (service) profile in ?one piece?, according to the current 
list from FRM and to what I told them. It does not correspond to the full 
flexibility of the actual planned SACP (this was not the intention). 
Anyhow, I realized two things: 
1.      Not all of SLE parameters were there (GVCID, Port and User 
identifiers, etc?) 
2.      Defined as such now, projects would need to define multiple 
configuration profiles, being actually the same, differing only with 
Service Instance Identifier, for each Service Instance. In our case, for 
example for TerraSAR mission, we have actual 3 spacecraft configurations 
for the antenna, but in total 32 service instances for different stations, 
antennas and cortexes. This maybe does not multiply 1x1, but at least we 
would need 32 configuration profiles (I can almost hear the project people 
coming to get me)! 
 
Okay, this is to some extent my own fault, as I burdened the 
implementation of ?some kind of configuration profile? to my developers, 
and maybe did not thought about it in front. But it shows I think also 
some shortcomings we have with the concept (maybe it will shape up still).
 
To the first point, I quickly noticed, that ? even I made a list of 
parameters based on FRM ? actually not all parameters are really exposed. 
When looking to the export of Holger out of FRM and the schema files, I 
noticed than there is number of parameters which are marked only as 
?reporting? thus in first place not visible to SACP (hence my omission). 
And so, all Initiator and Responder Id?s as well as PortId?s and the 
GVCID?s are marked as ?reporting? or ?read-only? if you like. How are we 
going to set them? Shouldn?t they be also configurable, similar like 
Service Instance ID?
 
>From this:

 
To this:

 
Second topic is the actual (operational) separation of the antenna 
configuration and the transfer services configuration. Currently (at least 
at DLR) this looks like this:

 
There are few antenna configurations (which may be effectively also 
identical throughout different antennas) and number of SLE configurations 
(Service Instances). To be fully honest, the multiplication of the SLE 
config is just due to the different Responder ID and Port ID?s, resulting 
also in separate Service Instance ID, the rest of the config is typically 
the same (for a specific RCF or FCLTU service).
 
How do we want to handle that with our current concept of SACP?
 
I know we had some brief discussions on that, and there is some three page 
(chapter 3.4.2) information on intended use in the TechNote of John. It 
speaks relatively high level about two options, reusing SICF files (kind 
of an extension to the actual SACP config) and also by dynamically setting 
the abovementioned parameters. 
 
First option says, that SICF files shall be there, and the Responder and 
Provider ID?s and Ports shall be fixed in Service Agreement and for 
specific Site and Mission, and later on only these shall be used. It does 
not actually however says anything on how actual SICF is bound to the 
specific Service Package nor Service Package Request nor Configuration 
Profile. We have Ports and their ID?s, but how do I know which SICF shall 
I use? Shall there be also predefined ONE fixed SICF?
 
Second option of using the extended/abstract parameters in Service Package 
 may allow for dynamic provision of the so called ?scheduledSocket? which 
would be just the ProviderPort. So far so good, but still I miss the rest 
of the SLE/CSTS configuration, especially wrt to what I wrote above.
 
Here is where the I lost the trace of the hunted game. And maybe we need 
here some discussion. ?
 
I was thinking ? just to came into with some proposal ? of the following 
(better ideas are welcome!):
 
-          To not destroy everything else we already somehow managed to 
set up wrt SMURF, SPDF and SACP?
-          ?We could use extended list (as at the beginning) in the 
Service profile, with Service Instance ID, PortID?s, GVCID?s etc., having 
predefined some parameters (i.e. Buffer sizes), whereas leaving all of 
these ?variable ones? undefined. That way we would have limited number of 
Configuration Profiles (a set of few generic ones for the spacecraft, 
universally engageable in every station).
-          When booking the Service Package (sending the Request) we could 
?overwrite? the previously mentioned parameters using AbstractParameter 
Class (for example ?InitiatiorID? and ?ServiceInstanceID? and ?GVCID?). 
The same would be true for SPDF ? the values there would be shown in 
AbstractParameter class (and for example additionally station defined 
PortID would be provided). This would allow to use all of our Books / 
Formates as they are, and have individual SLE configuration for each 
pass/service package.
-          The disadvantage of the above method would be, that there would 
need to be some kind of automated generation of Service Instance ID and 
GVCID on user side and the ProviderPort on provider side. Otherwise we 
come into danger of crazy users/providers not filling these parameters, or 
filling them wrongly or even filling them different.
 
Okay? I?m done for today ?
 
Cheers
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