March 2015

System Monitoring Solution - Implementation

Depending on the outcome of the INF107 project, this may be a procurement or an in-house build.

The project effort for this year is 50 days, but this is a multi-year project over three years.

This project will start in May.

Decommission Obsolete Infrastructure

Category: Core Funding

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by David Watters for March 2015

Achievements this Period

• TSM established and live in TEST environment
• Work almost complete on setting up TSM in LIVE environment
• First batch of obsolete servers (25) powered down and awaiting removal from network
• Plans on next batch of servers being finalised
• Work on migration to Password Manager continuing
• Build of replacement SOA DEV environment completed

Issues

• Deployment of TSM in LIVE taking longer than anticipated

Next Steps

• TSM to be deployed in LIVE
• Password Manager deployment to be completed
• 'Priority 1' servers to be removed from network
• 'Priority 2' decommissions to commence

INF107 (AP45-067)

Environment Monitoring System

Category: Core Funding

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Maurice Franceschi for March 2015

All vists and demos for external and internals product completed. The team have started on final assessment, recommendation and report.  

Achievements in Last Period

• Visit Imperial and assess - done
• Demo of Zenoss and assess - done
• Demo of SCOM and assess - done
• Assess potential of newRelic - done

Issues

• one Amber risk - last reviewed early April

Next Steps

• write report with recommentation for management

INF108 (AP45-034)

Automated Server Builds

Category: Discretionary

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Colin Watt for March 2015

Achievements in Last Period

• Puppet configuration has been implemented for Oracle TNSnames across all linux environments (2nd Iteration Milestone).
• Puppet configuration tools have been used to deploy a pilot Python development environment (3rd Iteration Milestone), and has been provided to Dev Services for feedback.
• PM and Senior Supplier have agreed with project Sponsor of TEL022 that the tools will be used to deploy the platform for the upgrade project.

Issues

• Control of budget (PM and Senior supplier reviewing weekly and adjusting effort accordingly) to ensure sufficient effort is available to support TEL022.
• Ensuring that timelines and resource availability are adjusted to align with TEL022 milestones.

Next Steps

• The 3rd release will be to support provision of the platform for TEL022 Moodle Upgrade (an additional milestone will be planned for this release).
• Review of milestones, project deliverables, and project timescale.

INF109 (AP45-033)

Annual upgrades of development tools (JIRA/Bamboo)

Category: Compliance

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Gillian Henderson for March 2015

Achievements in Last Period

• Brief Signed off
• Planning phase completed
• Bookings requested in ASTA for all phases of project.
• Dev tech bookings scheduled and assigned and for Bamboo and Jira Upgrades

Issues

• Existing TADs out of date, in additional to adding minimal changes made by this project, these will need to be fixed to reflect current environment.

Next Steps

• Initial upgrades on Bamboo and Jira to be completed for build phase
• Testing of Bamboo upgrade.
• Bamboo and Jira TADs moved to new template and updated.
• Build sign off for Bamboo
• Work on script change required for licensing issue with Jira

INF106 (AP45-032)

New Application Tier Replacement

Category: Compliance