Overview

Description

Part of the merger with Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) included moving staff into relevant posts and services into relevant support areas with the University. The ECA eportal server was one of those services, the eportal server provides the ECA Portal and Learning Management System (LMS) along with other ECA specific web services.

The original integration project STU200 hooked up the ECA Portal and LMS to University corporate systems such as IDM and EUCLID. This project is the next step of integration which is to move the LMS application and Portal onto University infrastructure. Other services running on the eportal server are now the responsibility of the ECA IT team (headed up by Geoff Lee).

Objectives

• To provide essential support documentation including Technical Architecture Document (TAD), System Description Document (SDD) and a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan. These will all assist in ensuring that Applications Support have all the knowledge to fully support the system.
• Migrate to a IS Applications Supported Infrastructure, with inherent backup and redundancy in place, without jeopardising performance of the service
• To Seggregate Dev, Test and Live Services
• To complete the task identified as part of the STU200 closure review

Dependencies and Constraints

The ECA infrastructure move must be completed at a time where ECA staff are available for testing the new portal to ensure that it works as expected and in addition the migration itself must be carried out at a time where the portal is in limited use (i.e. outside of exam periods and ideally avoid term time).

The scope of this project is limited to moving the portal.eca.ac.uk only into IS Applications Supported Infrastucture, other services running on the eportal server will not be affected by this project.

Legislative Impact

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