Project Info
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Project Manager's Commentary
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INF134 AP89-023
Logging Data Retention
Milestones
RAG Status
Green
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Report by Ian Mitchell for June 2019
Achievements
Milestones completed successfully:
- Feasibility of using Centralised Logging ** -24 June : Meeting held with ITI as regards strategy for use of ITI's central logging service for services managed by IS Apps, outcome seen here:
https://secure.projects.ed.ac.uk/unpublished/project/inf134/milestones/feasibility-of-using-centralised-logging
- Delivery - Agree Retention Policy
Recommendations for selected key Technologies
Milestones outstanding
- Recommendations for selected key Technologies - still in progress at time of writing, expected complete by 5 July.
- Project closure
Issues
none
Next steps
Complete milestone 'Recommendations for selected key Technologies' proceed to closure – ‘Project Closure’ due 12 July.
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INF135
CF10 Updates
Milestones
RAG Status GREEN
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Report by Sue Woodger for June 2019
Achievements in last period
- Project is now fully resourced and resources are approved and assigned. This means however that the project is carrying over to next year and this and been approved by project sponsor and programme manager and the total cost for 19/20 is 275d and this includes completion of INF135 at 75d and 200d for the CF11 upgrades. (piccl 17 refers). Spend for 18/19 to date is 68d.
- Revised dates for the project have now been considered and have been approved by the team and WIS
Issues
- Support for CF10 ran out on 16 May 2019 therefore no patching will be done on CF10
Next Steps
Project is GREEN again as resourcing has been confirmed and revised milestone dates agreed.
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INF138 AP89-017
Annual DR Review and Tests
Milestones
RAG Status
BLUE
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Report by Ian Mitchell for June 2019
Achievements
Milestones completed successfully:
- Delivery - DR documentation complete
- Close Project Closure
Final Documentation now stored here.
Closure Report here.
Outcome
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Description
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Priority
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Outcome
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| O1 |
To establish the set of components which are used by the priority services Applications |
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| D1.1 |
Review all applications and components which make up the Top and Medium priority services |
Must Have |
Achieved |
| O2 |
To review and update a Disaster Recovery plan, where required, for each of the applications noted as top and medium priority services |
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D2.1
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Establish a DR position for each top priority application, where required
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Must Have
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Achieved
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| D2.2 |
Establish a DR position for each medium priority application, where required |
Must Have |
Achieved |
| D2.3 |
For each Top and Medium priority service, if none already available, produce a DR document/plan. This must include a written document, if none already available, on how to recover each application. This may link to other documents |
Must Have |
Achieved |
| O3 |
Review Disaster Recovery plans in established central repository and communicate any changes to appropriate support teams |
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| D3.1 |
Review storage and access to Master Documentation containing DR position for each component and detailing each Top and Medium priority Service DR Document / Plan |
Should Have |
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Key Learning Points
- An agreement that going forward this documentation is maintained as a BAU activity by Technology Management.
- 18 recommendations for DR documentation process delivered in report. The DR documentation can be found on the IS Applications System Documentation Dashboard SharePoint site.
Issues
none
Next steps
- none, project closed
- Close Project Closure date was 28 June
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INF139 Annual Upgrades of Development Tools + frameworks 18/19 (18-19 Project)
AP89-018
Milestones
RAG Status
GREEN
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Report by Anne Mathison for June 2019
Achievements
Sentry
- Sentry UAT completed in June
- Sentry went Live 13-June
Bamboo
- Bamboo completed UAT in June
- Bamboo went LIVE on 25-June
ASTA
- ASTA discussed and PMO Manager has decided that this work cannot be completed in INF139
- The 2 ASTA milestones have been withdrawn
PMP
- Work has been planned for Tech Man and is in progress
Oracle Grid
- Dev Tech cannot accommodate this work
- Tech Man will plan this work
General
- Discussed and agreed with Tech Man and Dev Tech how some applications are upgraded
- Where point release - complete via support
- Where server upgrade - complete via project
- This should be agreed in the Brief of the next project to decide which applications fall into this category
Issues
Next Steps
Oracle Grid
- Meeting planned for mid July to see if Oracle Grid is feasible in 2018/19 Project
- Tech Man will be implementing Oracle Grid in July if possible
PMP
- PMP Completing UAT
- PMP Live Planned for July
General
- Overall UAT signed off
- Overall Deployment signed off
- Prepare draft closure report
- Close project
GREEN RAG status
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INF140 - Middleware Patching Process
Milestones
Milestones
RAG Status
GREEN
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Report by Karen Stirling for June 2019
Achievements in Last Period
- Plan activity for Consul and MS SQL Server completed
- Milestones reviewed and approved at WIS
Issues
- Patching activity can happen in parallel with remaining patching strategies to be completed
- Dev Tech resource not allocated for agreed slot however review with resource manager they have now been assigned in line with the revised milestones
- WIS have requested sight of patching strategy on delivery of project
- Unspent budget of 30 days returned to INF programme as per agreement with Project Sponsor and Programme Manager, approved budget now showing as 70 days. Further review of budget will be completed and returned to programme in due course.
Next Steps
- Complete remaining strategies
- Complete Consul patching in all environments
- Complete MS SQL Server patching in all environments
The project is GREEN.
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INF141 (18-19 Project)
Milestones
RAG Status
GREEN
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Report by Maurice Franceschi (for Nigel Binns) for June 2019
It has been agreed with heads of Production and Development to close the project, with a new project in 19-20 to continue the SVN work. Development Team will need to re-assess their approach and commitment to availability accordingly.
Achievements this period
- resource clarification and assignments - not achieved
- VSS completed
Issues
- software development resources still not booked
Next Steps
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INF142 (18-19 Project)
Move IS based Oracle databases to VMs and stretched cluster
Milestones
RAG Status: GREEN
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Report by David Watters for June 2019
Achievements
- Build of VMs and CentOS version of database ongoing
- Work continued on analysis of server estate and licences required
Issues
- Some tasks taking a bit longer than anticipated; issues being worked through
Next steps
- Build of VMs and CentOS version of database to continue
- Final version of DEV and TEST database servers (for Wiki) to be built
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INF143 - MySQL Environment Migration
Milestones
RAG Status
GREEN
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Report by Geoff Cropley for June 2019
Achievements in Last Period
- An Additional 100 days and an extension of the project into the academic year has been approved
- Test servers for pilot applications have been built and configured with Puppet
- Maria DB has been installed and configured on the pilot application Test Environment including encryption at rest
- As the result of SME absence, these milestones were slightly behind of schedule but the time has been recovered during the reporting period
Issues
Next Steps
- PICCL amending Delivery and Closure milestones to reflect uplift in budget and extension into 2019-2020
- Complete Mirroring
- Commence Performance Testing
- Complete Bamboo configuration
- Build the test environments for the remaining services
- Migration of pilot applications to Test servers and commence system testing
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INF145 (18-19 Project)
Protecting Data in the EDW
Milestones
RAG Status
AMBER
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Report by Kevin Hone for June 2019
Achievements
- The project is making steady progress with issues raised on Jira and assigned to other team members.
- To ensure timely completion, additional resource have been assigned to work alongside the DB Administrator leading on this assignment.
Issues
- Problems have been encountered with the set-up of the trial environment with a help call raised to IS Support.
- Consideration was given to raising the project priority as a consequence of resource conflicts. This was escalated and has since been resolved with more time allocated to the DB Administrator.
Next Steps
- Regular weekly meetings have been diarised to monitor project progress and pursue delivery to planned timelines.
- Prepare for implementation.
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