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SYSTEMS
EVS transition to virtual machines

STATUS: As decided from last week, we will wait to switch STAGE from on prem to VM once PROD VM is ready; so we can switch both PROD and STAGE at same time .


Systems

BACKGROUND: 

On Friday Sept 29th, we were asked to deploy a banner on public-facing websites if the government was shutdown. There was confusion about who was reponsible for which pages - and how to do it quickly (especially if systems groups goes to bare-bones support level. While the government was not shut down, we still want the ability to handle it better in the future.
 
OBJECTIVE:

 to be able to update public-facing pages with banners quickly and efficiently, with Consistent styling desired for all sites - in case the need ever arises again (in case of another shutdown/emergency/etc)


ACTION:

  •  Build responsibility list for public facing pages (Jason Lucas compiled the list) thumbs up 

Application

URL

Developer/POC

Term Browser

https://nciterms.nci.nih.gov/

Guidehouse/Kim Ong

Metathesaurus Browser

https://ncim.nci.nih.gov/

Guidehouse/Kim Ong

Term Suggestion Application

https://ncitermform.nci.nih.gov/

Guidehouse/Kim Ong

EVS Explore

https://evsexplore.semantics.cancer.gov

WCI/Brian Carlsen

EVSRESTAPI (Swagger Page)

https://api-evsrest.nci.nih.gov/swagger-ui/index.html

WCI/Brian Carlsen

EVS website

https://evs.nci.nih.gov/

Clint Malone?

Report Exporter

https://evs.cancer.gov/report-exporter

Mayo/Andrew Moore

LexEVS CTS2 docs                          

https://lexevscts2docs.nci.nih.gov

Mayo/Tracy Safran

LexEVS CTS2 Landing Page

https://lexevscts2.nci.nih.gov/lexevscts2/

Mayo/Tracy Safran

EVS Semantic Integration Platform

https://sip.evs.cancer.gov/evssip/

ESI/Ye Wu


ACTION:

  •  Benson, Mark (NIH/NCI) [C] to schedule a mtg/ discuss a possible CSS file/ENV variable for banner message and report on  



LEXEVS UPDATES

Monthly Planning and Focus

Completed Sprint - Sprint 212 (Sept 4 - Sept 29)  – Burndown Report

Current Sprint  - Sprint 213 (Oct 2 - Oct 27) LINK TO Jira Sprint 213

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

  • Complete Report Exporter refactoring and dependency updates

    • (see EVSREPEXP-475 -> 483)

  • RMI Retirement - in progress

    • Unfortunately, I do not have a detailed update at this time, other than there are efforts to update the test script. I believe that the the RMI is turned off on STAGE, and the test script would test other components to verity that there are no unseen side-effects.

  • Improvements, Refactoring Code Debt, Feature development:
    • LEXEVS-5341 Update Spring to Spring 6
    • LEXEVSCTS2-453 Update CTS2 welcome with digital sytle requirements (header, footer, etc)
  • 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-5361- Investigate Java 17
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes (several small bugs that have been identified over time and need to be addressed)
    • EVSREPEXP-491 resolve branch-download list not being displayed on chrome browser (now FIXED)
    • EVSREPEXP-433 Security issue: set-value vulnerability (in progress)
    • LEXEVSCTS2-452 test_associations_subject_of call revealed hierarchy bug
    • EVSREPEXP-478 Feedback form is not coming up
    • LEXEVS-5252 Read an Entity by URI throwing a 302 error
    • LEXEVSCTS2-431 Service resource does not populate Service name/version
    • Investigate ERROR messages (both reported by Jason Lucas, and in catalina.out )

ACTIONS


Technical Debt remediation

LexEVS Code Debt Refactoring

  • Coding complete on lexevs services - except for isolated dependencies
    • The isolated dependencies largely depend on using an updated version of Java (e.g. they are using more current Java versions. Java 21 LTS is the current version.  The more popular non-LTS Java version is Java 14)
    • Scott is investigating costs and feasibility of Java 17 (see LEXEVS-5361 above)
    • LEXEVSCTS2-447 javax-servlet - on hold, until we update Java 17
    • LEXEVSCTS2-446 spring-boot - on hold, until we update Java 17
  • Work on NCIt Browser - ehcache beta on dev. Kim approves promotion (Scott)


Report Exporter


Vulnerable dependencies - in progress

  • Red Herring: while Andrew was debugging, was getting "no results" for Concept codes – turns out it was service problems ? 
  • CLARIFICATION: Andrew clarified that the outage was with the API on DEV tier.
    • Filed ticket: NCI-INC0779039 Hosting Application Outage - Missing or Incorrect Content
    • The service was restarted, and the content (Concept Codes box) started showing data again.
  • Improving unit testing is still in progress


EVSREPEXP-475- "Apply Digital Styling to Report Exporter" is now on PROD 


Feedback form

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


ACTIONS


Securitysee JQuery issue under Systems

Statistics Dashboard

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

STATUS

The queries used in the Statistics Dashboard have been shared with < someone on migration team > (as of Sept 2023).

They are working on migrating from "SumoLogic" format to DataDog format 

  • SumoLogic Query: 
  • Data Dog Query

<note: removed images of DataDog vs SumoLogic queries, as they didn't add much to the discussion anyway >

ACTIONS


Comparison/Mapping Tool

On Hold

AWS Cloud to be in Separate Account

Waiting on AWS team

Team Absences


Mayo Team -  Andrew off Oct 27

MSC - 

Leidos - 

QA -

Gov - 



EVS SERVICE AND ARCHITECTURE GROUP UPDATES
EVS Service and Architecture Group

Met today 



DATA UPDATES
Data

Will do monthly terminology week starting  

Then will work on META afterwards

DECIDED: Data Deployment should continue as planned - no reason to delay.



BROWSER UPDATES

Browser

note outage discussion above



QA UPDATES

QA




TERMINOLOGIES LIFECYCLE REPORT

Terminology Updates and Schedule 


Mark Benson TPM Update

Everyone is humbly asked to complete NIH Anti-Harassment training as soon.

  • Unless your contracting company tells you otherwise - Please check and verify your status on theNIH HHS.gov Learning Portal to confirm completion.
  • Lyuba and others get lists of people that haven't yet completed - and we can make her life easier if everyone has completed!
  • Decided: You don't have to report your training status to Mark

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