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Ticket Description Actions, Update
Request from LRbanner referencing EVS Explorer

If NCI Terms Browser down, banner should point people to EVS Explorer.

Will be in current tag, next release

NCI-RITM0497500Planning Discussion with Systems about migrating to Java 17
  • Meeting was Friday, Jan 5. Informed of OS update in the works by Julyplanned Fri, Jan19 11AM
  • Tomcat 8.5 EoL this year?
  • ecj is Tomcat8 jar and needs updated to work with Java 17. 
  • Who is overseeing the OS/Tomcat upgrade? How to communicate the increased risk? Shiv Kadarthi (sp?)
  •  Tracy to create Dev Java 17 ticket
NCI-RITM0499380 add jconsole access on PROD to debug performance issues
Posted latest access errors to ticket, trying to get needed access

 BANNER

  • There is a request by CBIIT to do a test run of putting a banner across all applications, including EVS. Would happen within firewall first. 
    • Injection approach
    • Waiting to hear back from Systems regarding info for scheduling

CONTACT FORM SPAM

Contact Us page is being spammed

  • Possibly drop form and provide email to systems for forwarding ?
  • Server was scanned, and is not infected.
  • Any additional work is on us.
  • (we're not going to be shut down)
  • Ticket closed this morning

JAVA 17

Explore Java 17 update on servers

We had a meeting last Fri (Jan 5) (NCI-RITM0497500)  with Systems.

ACTION: Will be meeting with Systems to decide next action for testing, and to get estimated costs, etc.

ACTION: which jdk, notably for windows, reply to Kim. Answer: Corretto Java 17.

CENTOS 7 RETIREMENT

Our servers are running CentOS 7, which is being retired by Systems in June 24.

We need to develop a plan to address the issue.

  1. I'm talking with Amit Mukherjee about how they are addressing this
  2. I'll be getting more information from Systems after the next meeting.

SYSTEMS
EVS transition to virtual machines

STATUS: We are waiting to switch STAGE from on prem to VM once PROD server is ready; so we can switch both PROD and STAGE at same time . 

Systems
  • New rules from Systems Engineering has resulted in additional documentation and testing.
  • Jenkins setup created, still adjusting it.



LEXEVS UPDATES

Monthly Planning and Focus

Completed Sprint - Sprint 215 (Dec 8- Jan 2) - LINK TO Jira Spring 215

Current Sprint  - Sprint 216 ()

For the month of December 2023, the Mayo group is planning to:

  • Complete Report Exporter banner


  • Improvements, Refactoring Code Debt, Feature development:
  • Examine feasibility of Java 17
    • BACKGROUND: a small number of LexEVS components (aka dependencies) are being phased off of java 8 (or are no longer being supported on java 8).  We ideally want to use a current version of those components (dependencies). IF the current version of that component is only supported on Java 14 or later (just as an example), then we would have to migrate the ENTIRE LexEVS stack to Java 14 or later. (Note that the current Java version is Java 21 LTS, and the most popular non-LTS version is Java 14). So there is a risk that a vulnerability is found in the older version of the component/dependency and we would have to either migrate everything quickly to a new version, or not use that component (which might not be possible), or shutdown LexEVS entirely. Note that there are certain versions of Java which are "long-term support" versions - meaning that they will be supported for several years beyond non-LTS versions. LTS versions are Java 8,  Java 11, Java 17, and Java 21.
    • OBJECTIVE: find out what would it be like to upgrade from Java 8 LTS to Java 17 LTS.  How hard would it be? How long might it take?
    • LEXEVS-5373Investigate Upgrade of NCIt Browser to Java 17
  • DataDog


Technical Debt remediation

LexEVS Code Debt Refactoring

  • Coding complete on lexevs services - except for isolated dependencies
    • Java 17 work ready for NCit Browser 
  • CTS2 - Working to update Jakarta - linked to Java17
  • Dependabot notice to update jQuery - ready for Dev


Report Exporter
  • Banner changes being implemented  - in progress
    • May be moot with centralized approach
    • Systems did implement config change - currently being tested on Devbut ineffective. Requested roll back
  • Working on templating - Need user feedback for phase 2
    • Demo feedback implemented
    • Need to make more dynamic - load values from external source - work started
    • Will need feedback from users to provide template requirements
  • Wait time indicator work has begun
  •  Work with Mark to setup communications with Lori

Andrew discussed banner progress with Systems group configuration change (however the fix needs to be finalized). However, this is very low priority.Feedback form

  • Need to research approval procedure, Mark was asked to reach out to OCPL
  • Andrew supplied copy of survey form from RE

ACTION: (from Lyuba) We don't have any indication that the tool is working. Can we get an indicator, like a spinning circle, etc.


Security


Statistics Dashboard

OBJECTIVE 
Complete Migration of Statistics Dashboard from SumoLogic to DataDog by March 2024.

STATUS

Status meeting has been scheduled for every Friday
Request for additional info in the logs sent by Manish.  Tracy will forward. 

ACTIONS

  •  Check on status of collectors on other servers than evsexplore - Tracy


Comparison/Mapping Tool

On Hold

AWS Cloud to be in Separate Account

Waiting on AWS team

Team Absences


Mayo Team - 

MSC - 

Leidos - MLB out next Wed (Jan 17) morning 

QA - 

Gov - 



EVS SERVICE AND ARCHITECTURE GROUP UPDATES
EVS Service and Architecture Group
  • Looked at logging on upper tiers;
    • fixes are in next release


    		DATA UPDATES
    Data
    • Monthlies being tested on Stage
    • Prod tomorrow
    • ChEBI data issue - ticket entered
    23.12d - ; and working on monthly vocabs

    BROWSER UPDATES

    Browser
    • 2 tags
    went to production today
    • Some ehcache work needs to be implemented
    • Consider changing browser behaviors to limit abusive searching
      • Updating/adding/changing cookies might require security review
    Note to QA: EVS Explorer and API are higher priority over the tags.
    • in QA, lower priority 
    • Kim: Thinks issue will be finding right Tomcat/Java 17 combination



    QA UPDATES

    QA

    Completed sanity testing for Dec 23 data deployment, all browsers, on QA and lower tiers.

    Currently working on EVS Explorer and API, target is to finish first iteration this week, next iteration next week. Final target is Jan 26th for PROD deployment.
    Thanks for clarifying priorities.
    • Data testing Monthly
    • 1.9 RestAPI/Explore on QA
      • Progression completed
      • Rest Regression in progress - target completion expected by Friday
      • Explore - testing fixes
    • Browser testing expected next week

    		TERMINOLOGIES LIFECYCLE REPORT

    Terminology Updates and Schedule 


    Mark Benson TPM Update
    • No issues

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    11d11121123121323Dec202311121123121323Dec202311121123121323

    Vocabulary Name

    Local Name

    Version

    Arrival Date

    Loaded to data-qa DB

    Date to Stage

    Date to Production

    Vocabulary Name in LexBIG

    Short Name

    Version identifier

    Date the vocabulary arrived for processing

    		Has the vocabulary been loaded to the data-qa database?

    Approximate date the vocabulary version is scheduled to move to staging

    Approximate date the vocabulary version is scheduled to move to production

    NCI ThesaurusNCIt23.12d12/27/2023yes01/05/2401/09/24
    NCIt-HGNCNCIt-HGNCJan202412/27/2023yes01/05/2401/09/24
    SwissProtSwissProtJan202412/27/2023yes01/05/2401/09/24
    ChEBIChEBIv22801/09/24yes01/12/2401/17/24
    HGNCHGNCJan202401/09/24yes01/12/2401/17/24

    QA Schedule and Status

    see  QA Scheduling and Status

    ...