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5 Non-RT RIC Control Panel Overview
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8 Graphical user interface with the following capabilities:
10 * View and Manage A1 policies in the RAN (near-RT-RICs)
11 * Graphical A1 policy creation/editing is model-driven, based on policy type’s JSON schema
12 * View producers and jobs for the Enrichment coordinator service
13 * Configure A1 Policy Management Service (add/remove near-rt-rics)
15 The Control Panel frontend interacts with the A1 Policy Management Service and A1 Enrichment Information Coordinator
16 (REST NBIs) via a service exposure gateway, the Nonrtric Gateway. The frontend is developed using the Angular framework.
17 The Gateway is a Spring Cloud Gateway that provides an API Gateway for all the Non-RT-RIC Components.
20 It is fully supported in Firefox and Chrome. Minor issues in Safari.
21 Not supported in Microsoft Edge and IE.
23 Control Panel architecture
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26 The architecture of the Control Panel is as shown on the following picture:
28 .. image:: ./images/ControlPanel_architecture.png
31 The Control Panel can be deployed following the instructions in the Installation Guide.