Report for April 2017

INF119 (AP56-047)

Service Resilience Capability

Category: Discretionary

Milestones

RAG Status / RAG change during last month

GREEN

Report by Karen Stirling for April 2017

Achievements in Last Period

• IDM MyEd connector updated
• Dev database failover completed and tested successfully
• Database Switchover tasks documented and available on wiki page
• Agreed with Technology Management team for their resource to complete Test and Live failovers
• Test database failover completed and tested successfully

Issues

• Review remaining effort and raise PICCL to return 25 unspent days to INF Programme
• Moved test failover activities out by 1 week to allow Tech Man resource to complete failover for test

• Ensure project activities are not impacting tasks within COM034 Annual Wiki Update project, Project Manager is in contact with COM034 project manager

Next Steps

• Prep for Live database failover
• Complete Live database failover
• Complete closure report and agree sign off
• Close project

The project status now GREEN.

RAG Commentary

n/a

INF121

Migrate Core Databases to Oracle 12c

Category: Compliance

Milestones

RAG Status / RAG change during last month

RED

Report by Chris Konczak for April 2017  

Achievements in Last Period

• Pre migration testing on DEV, TEST and LIVE completed
• Project plan and estimate reviewed and agreed.
• Error in upgrade from Oracle 12.1 to 12.2 now resolved and upgrade for RMADDEV can begin

Issues and Risks

• There is an issue with the 12.2 database template scripts which are being prevented from running. Investigation is on-going.
• Duration to complete the 12.2 upgrade is taking longer than anticipated. No issue with effort required, but more the duration will need extended.

Next Steps

• Continue with GEN environment build
• Begin DEV, TEST and LIVE Pre migration testing
• Review of project plans and estimates for 16/17 and 17/18 will be carried out in April.

RAG Commentary

• Change. Resolved. Scope change to migrate to Oracle 12.2 to avoid future downtime and extended end of life. Agreed by project team and sponsor.

INF123

16-17 Provisioning of Python environment

Compliance

Milestones

RAG Status

Green

Report by Chris Orrell for April 2017

Achievements in Last Period

• Requested an additional 22 days which was approved by WIS. A developer resource has been secured so that additional value may be delivered by the 16/17 Python project and this is being progressed through Iteration 1A.
• Python packaging repository work has been completed to allow Edgel Innovation work from API126 to be released (D1.1).

Issues

• A new risk has been raised that preliminary work necessary to allow Iteration 3 to progress containerisation development work may not be completed to allow iteration 3 to start as planned. Risk owner and mitigation to be agreed.
• A release date for Edgel Innovation deliverable D1.1 is required.  

Next Steps

• Plan the work necessary in order to release iteration 1.
• Agree actions that will allow Iteration 3 containerisation development to start on time.
• Iteration 2 planning meeting scheduled for 5 May in advanced of iteration start date 8 May. 
• Schedule the next key stakeholder meeting.

RAG Commentary

Project is rated green, scope rated amber. Iteration 3, Containerisation, is scheduled to start 5 June. However, the University has yet to agree a Strategy or Roadmap for containerisation and so without these items in place these user stories may not be completed, see risk 10.

INF124

Bamboo Upgrade 2016

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Gillian Henderson for March 2016

Achievements in Last Period

• Test Nexus Environment Built
• Test Nexus Environment Tested
• Test Nexus Environment Signed Off
• Test Bamboo Environment Built
• Test Bamboo Environment Tested
• Test Bamboo Environment Signed Off
• Live Nexus Environment Built
• Live Nexus Environment Tested
• Live Nexus Environment Delivered
• Live Bamboo Environment Built
• Live Bamboo Environment Tested
• Live Bamboo Environment Delivered

Issues and Risks

• no amber or red risks

Next Steps

Complete Bamboo Environment tasks for Deployment Sign off

• Final TAD updates to be made including new diagram showing outgoing connections through Nexus and firewall change to block outgoing connections.
• Updated TAD circulated to Stakeholders and ITI.
• Deployment Checklist to be completed (Tech Man to confirm if require additional handover)
• CMDB to be updated with new server names.
• Agree date to decommission old Bamboo Servers.  Production to raise call with ITI to remove on agreed date (Current servers powered down and unavailable but may be required for reference over coming months)

Complete Nexus Environment tasks for Deployment Sign off

• Final TAD updates to be made following feedback.
• Updated TAD circulated to Stakeholders and ITI for sign off.
• Deployment Checklist to be completed Tech Man (Tech Man to confirm if require additional handover.
• CMDB entry to be added for Nexus Service.
• Agree date to decommission old Nexus Environment. In meantime agree when can shut this server down. Production to raise call with ITI to remove on agreed date.
• Determine if tasks to update all plans to reference new Nexus URL is part of INF124 (if easy global update with 1-2 days effort) or if plans would be updated out with this INF124 on a project by project basis. – confirmation required by Stefan/Bill/Iain

INF125

System Monitoring Pilot 2

Discretionary

Milestones

To be replanned

RAG Status

AMBER

Report by Maurice Franceschi for April 2016

Achievements in Last Period

• complete requirements gathering - not achieved - need team to complete MoSCoW
• workshop with AppDynamics  -achieved
• TEST implementation - achieved but issues to resolve

Issues and Risks

• no amber or red risks

Next Steps

• complete requirements gathering
• set plan and resource folk for completion of TEST, LIVE once we have fed back to AppDynamics
• hold workshop to identify business processes to be monitored and how to configure these in the system
• start using AppDynamics to monitor EUCLID, LEARN and UWS

RAG Commentary

The AppDynamic consulting who was on-site 27/4 is preparing the planning for implementation document, with feedback from the team by 5/5. Once plan is completed, we can then set the project plan for build, test and delivery.

INF113 (AP45-067)

System Monitoring Pilot

INF111 (AP56-006)

New SQL Server Database Tier Replacement

INF118

JIRA upagrade 2016

INF120

Disaster Recovery for Priority Services

INF116

ASTA Upgrade 2016

INF122

Infrastructure Rationalisation