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7 E2E cloud service lifecycle management functional requirements

This clause provides requirements of E2E cloud service lifecycle management derived from the use cases
described in Appendix I.

7.1 Service management interface
It is recommended that the CSP provides SMI between cloud services and an E2E cloud service lifecycle
management system.
It is recommended that the CSP provides management functionalities of its own cloud service to others CSPs
through SMI between CSPs.

7.2 Self-service
It is recommended that the CSP provides an easy method (web portal or other automated approaches) to
discover, purchase, configure, deploy, activate and deactivate a service and to check service status to
the CSC.

7.3 Service maintenance
It is recommended that the CSP provides automated software enabled cloud services for continuous service
maintenance to manage stability and availability of its service.

7.4 Reporting

It is recommended that the CSP provides functions to report (according to local laws and regulations) service
health condition, performance, security, geo-location of services, events and other related activities which
affect E2E cloud service performance.

7.5 Composite applications or mash-ups

It is recommended that the CSP provides functions to support the rapid delivery of cloud services that are
delivered as composite apps, or mash-ups built from multiple services implemented by multiple cloud
providers residing in different domains.

7.6 Traditional business processes

It is recommended that the CSP provides functions to support the application of traditional business
processes associated with administration, provisioning/configuration, service assurance and charging
/billing/settlement involved across inter-clouds residing in different domains.

7.7 Decommissioning

It is recommended that the CSP provides automatic de-commissioning of service resources either based on
original service request expiration date or CSC decommission request initiated while the service is running.

7.8 Policy

It is recommended that the CSP provides a set of policies for cloud service access and control.

7.9 Lifecycle stage management
It is required that the CSP provides the ability to run the given service through its lifecycle stages and offers
the needed functionality at every step of the process.

7.10 Service automation and continuous delivery

It is required for the CSP to enable automated response to deal with the demand variations and offer
necessary feedback to effect changes in the iterative design, by monitoring the service during its operation
in order to provide the necessary service automation and continuous delivery without human intervention.

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