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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 server is ready; so we can switch both PROD and STAGE at same time .

  •  Will be started this week
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 responsible 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:

Explore Java 17 update on servers. Will Tomcat be impacted? 

  • Put in a request (NCI-RITM0497500) to have a planning discussion with Systems.



LEXEVS UPDATES

Monthly Planning and Focus

Completed Sprint - Sprint 214 (Nov 8 - Dec 7)   – LINK TO Jira Burndown

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

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

ACTIONS

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Technical Debt remediation

LexEVS Code Debt Refactoring

  • Coding complete on lexevs services - except for isolated dependencies
    • Java 17 work ready for NCit Browser 
  • Work on NCIt Browser - ehcache beta on stage. Already set at 12g for memory - complete, on Stage
  • CTS2 - Working to update Jakarta


Report Exporter


Banner changes being implemented  - in progress

Working on templating - on QA

Feedback form

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

ACTIONS


Security


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 Cyrus Buckman (as of Sept 2023).

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

  • SumoLogic Query: 
  • Data Dog Query


ACTIONS



Comparison/Mapping Tool

On Hold

AWS Cloud to be in Separate Account

Waiting on AWS team

Team Absences


Mayo Team - Andrew 20-26, 29

MSC -  Kim off Dec 21,22, 27-29

Leidos - 

QA - Swathi 21-23

Gov - 



EVS SERVICE AND ARCHITECTURE GROUP UPDATES
EVS Service and Architecture Group


DATA UPDATES
Data
  • Request from Gilberto - undated inferred NCIt
    • Added to master scripts for next month
  • 23.11d is on Stage and will be deployed to Prod tomorrow
  • Monthlies on Data QA

DECIDED: 


BROWSER UPDATES

Browser
  •  EVS Explore new banner reviewed
  •  DAO initialization error appearing in logs - please review

QA UPDATES

QA
  • completed sanity for Nov NCIt on Stage
  • shutdown banners - completed NCIm on Prod. NCIt on hold due to lag, will test today
  • Report Exporter RC6 on QA in progress

TERMINOLOGIES LIFECYCLE REPORT

Terminology Updates and Schedule 


Mark Benson TPM Update
  • No issues

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