Present: William Dougherty, NI&S, chair and scribe; Richard Quintin-DBAA/Enterprise Systems; Mike Moyer-Data Center Program; Dave Hawes-SIS/Middleware; Steve Cox-CCS; Lucas Sullivan-ITEE; Matt Serr-NI&S Network Infrastructure Installation; Phil Norman-NI&S PR; Brian Jones-NI&S Monitoring, Performance, & Analytics team; Brad Tilley-ITSO; Richard Hach-NI&S; Tim Rhodes-NI&S Data Center Operations
ITEE:
ITEE will be upgrading the production ServiceNow instance from Jakarta Patch 6 to Jakarta Patch 7 on February 20, 2018 between 6am and 7am. There should be no down time associated with this upgrade. Jakarta Patch 7 has been on dev and test since January 10, 2018 for anyone who wishes to test functionality. Jakarta 7 release notes are available here:
DCP Operations:
Advance warning for next month. ARC/HPC activity will begin; Cascades cluster will be down for some time in either late March or early April for 5-7 days.
Short outage for VT Archive to resolve stability issues; 10am-2pm is scheduled. IBM will be assisting.
NI&S PR:
VT Alerts test next week. Will be specifically testing desktop alerts via the information monitors in AISB & RB XIV.
NI&S MPA:
Logs going to CLS; deletion of log information requests may not be honored in the future. Redaction policy needs to be fleshed out.
DBAA/ES:
Spring Banner upgrade scheduled for March 11, 2018. Some issues to be resolved.
Recommended Reading: Overcomplicated by Samuel Arbesman