Attendees
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
Action Items
| # | Assigned | Description | Date Identified | Due Date | Date Completed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayo/Jason | We have run into multiple issues where the performance on the DEV tier has be a problem due to Mayo not being able to replicate the slow points due to the drastic difference in DEV resources. We discuss this with the systems team and they requested us to put in a DRT ticket that provides the specs to match the Mayo DEV server. | 08/30/13 | The server resources have been expanded with an addition vCPU and an additional 2GB memory. Initial tests have shown better performance but the testing is ongoing. |
Progress
| Area of Interest | Details |
|---|---|
| LexEVS 6.1 | Production environment has been setup and CTS2 and URI Resolver have been deployed. Still having issues with the getting the firewall exception. ISSO asked about when we will be upgrading JBoss for 5.1 as this is an older version and shows up on the Nessus scan. Ticket and configuration for URL on production is completed. |
| LexEVS 6.0 and 5.1 | Both are on production and working. Per the comment above. We may be looking at a upgrade to JBoss 5.1.0 for LexEVS 5.1. |
| Term Browser | The request for deployment of 2.3 to production is in and now just waiting for the systems team to deploy. We have been informed by NCBO that the new graph widget that we implemented with 2.3 release, and the API that it runs on was to be retired by the end of the January. We have been able to get that delayed but need to look at upgrading the widget in an interim release of the browser or remove the functionality so it will not bread on production. |
| Meta Download Validation App | Work on the GUI and continuing discussion on how the pages will be updated (Plone vs deployment from SVN) |
| Term Suggestion Form | AppScan has passed. |
| NCIm Browser 2.3 | The same status as the Term Browser 2.3 release. The request for deployment of 2.3 to production is in and now just waiting for the systems team to deploy. |
| Report Writer | Provided technical support to the Operations team on trouble-shooting a multiple CDISC Submission Values issue. The issue appears to be data related. The new data have a source prefix that is not recognizable by the report writer application. |
JIRA/Gforge Issues
| Issue Number | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| GF#32871 | JAVA 1.7 Upgrade | Downloaded apache-tomcat-7.0.47-src. Reviewed the org.apache.cataline.ant package. Reviewed Tomcat 7 manager-gui and the REST API for executing the corresponding administrative functions. (See http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/manager-howto.html#Session_Statistics) Added an admin user to the tomcat-users.xml configuration file with roles being defined as "manager, manager-gui, admin, manager-script". Developed a method to launch the Tomcat 7 server. Tested the deployment of a web application using the Tomcat 7 DeployTask Ant task. This task takes a path parameter and a war file as input. It will automatically drop the war file to the webapp directory and create a subfolder under webapp directory to hold the expanded war. It will also create a corresponding subdirectory under the work directory. Tested the undeployment of an active web application using the Tomcat 7 UnDeployTask Ant task. This task takes a path parameter as input; for example, “/ncitbrowser”. It will automatically remove the war file and the expanded folder from the webapp directory. It will also clean up the subdirectory in the work folder. Both DeployTask and UnDeployTask will be reused in the new BDALite application. |
Schedule Changes
| # | Description | Due Date | Resources | Notes | Risks | Mitigation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GF#32816 | Migrate to LexEVS API 6.1. | 6/28/2013 | 1 Developer | We are still reviewing the new deployment of LexEVS 6.1 on DEV. This date is dependent on the value sets issues describe previously. | ||
| Moving up Development Time | 7/17/2013 | We are pushing to get the coding done for a July 17th review by the EVS users. This will give the users a chance to provide input on the implementation before we completely freeze the code. | ||||
| Pushing back the start of the user evaluation | 7/22/2013 | Having an issue with the exact match search. Working with mayo to get it resolved but need it fixed before user can review. | ||||
| Delay starting QA testing for Term Browser and NCIm Browser | 7/13/2013 | We had to delay the start of the QA testing since a fully functioning API has not been established on the QA tier. | ||||
| Delays with the final release candidate of LexEVS 6.1 API on QA | 9/6/2013 | The LexEVS 6.1 release has been extended to mid to late October. Sense the browsers are dependent on the API we will need to extend the release date to late October/early November. | Deployment by 9/30 is at risk | |||
| Delays with LexEVS 6.1 API due to deployment setup/AppScan | 11/8/2013 | There has been issues with getting all the components of LexEVS 6.1 setup on the DEV tiers. We have also received vulnerabilities from the AppScan on the QA tier that were not found on the DEV tier. These vulnerabilities require software patches to both the infrastructure and browser software requiring a new tag. | ||||
| Government Shutdown and Contract delays | 10/21/2013 | The deployment schedule has been delayed by 3 weeks due to the government shutdown and subsequent delays to the contract start up. |
Planned Activities
| Area of Interest | Details |
|---|---|
| Term Browser 2.3 Release | Provide required support for deployment to Prod tier. |
| Term Browser 2.4 Release | Continue design activities for new feature requests |
| Term Suggestion Application Release | Make any required fixes from QA testing. |
| NCIm Browser 2.3 Release | Provide required support for deployment to Prod tier. |
| NCIm Browser 2.4 Release | Continue design activities for new feature requests. |
Risks, Issues, Dependencies
Risks
| # | Opened Date | Due Date | Description | Likelihood (H, M, L) | Impact | Assigned | Status | Mitigation Strategy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/19/13 | 11/27/13 | Term Browser 2.3 and LexEVS 6.1 are in parallel development with the Term Browser having a dependency on LexEVS release. Both have a hard deployment date of 9/30/2013. Anticipating some QA resource limitations with both schedules being in parallel. | M | Jason | Monitoring both schedules and will provide status to QA to make sure resources are available. | |||
| 01/08/14 | VPN access to the NIH network is going to be locked down to just GFE equipment. This could cause some problems with response time to issue after normal working hours. | We will work with the TPM on a mitigation strategy to include possibly getting a GFE laptop. | ||||||
Issues
| # | Opened Date | Description | Impact | Assigned | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7/17/2013 | Removal of JAVA 1.6 from desktops. The Term Browser deployments using AntHillPro require JAVA 1.6. Putting in a request for a waiver until we can upgrade. | This would affect the deployments and production environment for the EVS tools. It sounds like this is going to be a future issue but we should have time to upgrade before it is part of the CBIIT tech stack. | Provided a level of effort for migrating all of the EVS applications to Java 1.7 to the Technical Project Manager and government sponsor. | ||
| 7/31/2013 | We currently have an issue where the browsers are ready to move to the QA tier for testing but due to the dependency of LexEVS 6.1 cannot start the QA testing process. LexEVS 6.1 does not currently have all the pre-QA qualification to proceed with the deployment to the QA tier. | With a hard deadline of Sept. 30 for both the browsers and LexEVS API 6.1 there is concern that there will be time to finish all the testing and deployments on time. | This is closed. The hard deadline was expanded due to factors we cannot control. | ||
Dependencies
| Opened Date | Description | Assigned |
|---|---|---|
| Term Browser 2.3 release dependent on the LexEVS 6.1 release. See the Issue listed for 7/31/2013 for details on the status. | ||
