March Progress Report

Report Date

March 2014

Achievements this period

Considerable progress has been made during the last reporting period, both in terms of the overall infrastructure configuration and user testing.

With regards the infrastructure, having identified the need for the supplier, METERology to have remote and in some cases unsupervised access, whilst maintaining meters associated with the system, agreement was reached with regards

• The overall technical design for the Meterology application
• The method of remote access to configure the server
• Locating the METERology system on the same private network recently installed for the BEMS server, to minimise any production concerns regarding remote access
• Approval  of  the revised  Technical Architecture Document  (TAD)
• The installation of the LIVE METERology server onto new private network

 User testing to-date has been successful in establishing

• Remote access requirements confirmed for the supplier METERology, Estates and IS Apps 
• Identified that a number of the more modern meters could be directed to both the current and new environment without any data loss
• Completed a successful parallel test of the meter readings being processed by both existing and new system
• In the event, of a full blown disaster, requiring the METERology system being located to a secondary site, the following activity was undertaken
  • Created Disaster Recovery Plan
  • Completed a successful test with the new METERology system running on a newly created server at the secondary site
  • Completed a successful failover back to the primary location
  • As a result, the Disaster Recovery milestone was subsequently achieved on 2^nd April 

Issues

•  No issues to report

Next steps

  Complete the remaining activity associated with the Live deployment, name

• Review and ensure project accompanying documentation (e.g. Operations Document, Implementation Plan) is complete
• Migrate existing database onto new environment
• Ensure all meters directed to the METERology system on the new environment
• Complete Deployment Sign off review and Closure

 Projected Milestones