OPS Overview
This section describes the definition and purpose of OPS.
Definition
The open programmability system (OPS) is an open platform that provides Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interfaces (RESTful APIs) to achieve a programmability, allowing third-party applications to run on the platform.
Purpose
Traditional network devices provide only limited functions and predefined services. The static and inflexible service provisioning mode cannot meet the requirements for diversified and differentiated services as the network develops. Some customers require devices with certain openness, on which they can develop their own functions and deploy private management policies to realize automatic management and maintenance, lowering management costs.
To meet the preceding customer requirements, Huawei offers the OPS, an open platform with programmability. The OPS allows users or third-party developers to develop and deploy network management policies using open RESTful APIs. With the programmability, the OPS implements rapid service expansion, automatic function deployment, intelligent device management, helping reduce network operation and maintenance costs and facilitate network operations.