Present: William Dougherty, NI&S, chair and scribe; Russ Fenn-DBAA/Enterprise Systems; Steve Cox-CCS; Joyce Landreth-ITEE; Phil Norman-NI&S PR; Mike Moyer-NI&S Data Center Operations; Brian Jones-NI&S MPA; Laurie Zirkle-NI&S App Admin; Dave Hawes-SIS/Middleware; Mike Smith-NI&S/NII; Jennifer Gay-ITEE/Info Center; Wanda Baber-NI&S
SIS/Middleware:
Will be deploying the Certs (certs.it.vt.edu) application on April 30th which will replace the current CA Manager application (https://apps.pki.vt.edu/ca-manager).
Highlights:
- Conversion from GlobalSign to InCommon certificate service
- Support for certificate transparency
- New and improved issuance workflows
Dave will check workflow in ServiceNow for requestable servcve.
Data Center Program:
Has a patch/maint cycle scheduled immediately before this deploy for the production apps/msg middleware systems.
Data Center network upgrade is beginning. Heads-up that this will becoming.
NI&S/Storage Mgmt:
Maintenance windows needed. NAS will need to have cards added and an OS upgrade on all three sites (Cassell, VTC in Roanoke, and main AISB data center). Prefer weekend for prod/main, and weekdays for other sites. This will impact My Store and dept. shares. (NFS, CFS, and block storage.) Tentatively looking at May 13th (Sunday) for AISB prod and then following week (no classes) for remiander of sites.
ES/DBAA:
Production Banner (FPROD) will be down 6am-8:30am for Financial Aid update this Sunday, April 15th, 2017.
Question from ITEE about VT Archive. DCP Director indicates that service is not meeting performance expectations. IBM is scheduled to come in on April 20th. Updates to firmware and other software versions have been made in anticipation of the visit. "Pauses" will cause systems to alarm and sometimes initialize actions which exacerbate the situation.