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The performances reports in terms of Availability and Reliability are produced by [http://egi.ui.argo.grnet.gr/egi/OPS-MONITOR-Critical ARGO] on an almost real time basis and they are also periodically collected into the [https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=2324 Documentation Database]. | The performances reports in terms of Availability and Reliability are produced by [http://egi.ui.argo.grnet.gr/egi/OPS-MONITOR-Critical ARGO] on an almost real time basis and they are also periodically collected into the [https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=2324 Documentation Database]. | ||
Over the past years, | Over the past years, ARGO hadn't particular Av/Co issues highlighted by the performances that need to be further investigated. | ||
= Risks assessment and management = | = Risks assessment and management = |
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Introduction
This page reports on the Availability and Continuity Plan for the ARGO and it is the result of the risks assessment conducted for this service: a series of risks and treats has been identified and analysed, along with the correspondent countermeasures currently in place. Whenever a countermeasure is not considered satisfactory for either avoiding or reducing the likelihood of the occurrence of a risk, or its impact, it is agreed with the service provider a new treatment for improving the availability and continuity of the service. The process is concluded with an availability and continuity test.
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Risks assessment | 2019-06-16 | 2021 Q2 |
Av/Co plan and test | 2020-04-21 | 2021 Q2 |
Previous plans are collected here: https://documents.egi.eu/document/3007 https://rt.egi.eu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=12323
Availability requirements and performances
In the OLA it was agreed the following performances targets, on a monthly basis:
- Availability: 99%
- Reliability 99%
Other availability requirements: - the service is accessible through X509 certificate and EGI Check-in (for the Poem service component) - The service is accessible via webUI
The service availability is regularly tested by nagios probes org.nagios.ARGOWeb-AR and org.nagios.ARGOWeb-Status: https://argo-mon.egi.eu/nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi?host=argo.egi.eu&style=detail
The performances reports in terms of Availability and Reliability are produced by ARGO on an almost real time basis and they are also periodically collected into the Documentation Database.
Over the past years, ARGO hadn't particular Av/Co issues highlighted by the performances that need to be further investigated.
Risks assessment and management
For more details, please look at the google spreadsheet. We will report here a summary of the assessment.
Risks analysis
Risk id | Risk description | Affected components | Established measures | Risk level | Expected duration of downtime / time for recovery | Comment |
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1 | Service unavailable / loss of data due to hardware failure | ARGO Monitoring | Automated Deployment and Backup Procedures that allow for rapid redeployment of affected components | Low | up to 8 hours | the measures already in place are considered satisfactory and risk level is acceptable |
2 | Service unavailable / loss of data due to software failure | ARGO Monitoring | Automated Deployment and Backup Procedures that allow for rapid redeployment of affected components | Low | up to 8 hours | the measures already in place are considered satisfactory and risk level is acceptable |
3 | service unavailable / loss of data due to human error | ARGO Monitoring | Automated Deployment and Backup Procedures that allow for rapid redeployment of affected components | Low | up to 8 hours | the measures already in place are considered satisfactory and risk level is acceptable |
4 | service unavailable for network failure (Network outage with causes external of the site) | ARGO Monitoring | Automated Deployment and Backup Procedures that allow for rapid redeployment of affected components | Low | up to 8 hours | the measures already in place are considered satisfactory and risk level is acceptable |
5 | Not enough people for maintaining and operating the service | ARGO Monitoring | There is always one member of the team on call. | Low | up to 8 hours | the measures already in place are considered satisfactory and risk level is acceptable |
6 | Major disruption in the data centre. Fire, flood or electric failure for example | ARGO Monitoring | Automated Deployment and Backup Procedures that allow for rapid redeployment of affected components | Medium | 1 or more working days | the measures already in place are considered satisfactory and risk level is acceptable |
7 | Major security incident. The system is compromised by external attackers and needs to be reinstalled and restored. | ARGO Monitoring | Automated Deployment and Backup Procedures that allow for rapid redeployment of affected components | Low | 1 or more working days | the measures already in place are considered satisfactory and risk level is acceptable |
8 | (D)DOS attack. The service is unavailable because of a coordinated DDOS. | ARGO Monitoring | Automated Deployment and Backup Procedures that allow for rapid redeployment of affected components | Low | up to 8 hours | the measures already in place are considered satisfactory and risk level is acceptable |
Outcome
The level of all the identified risks is acceptable and the countermeasures already adopted are considered satisfactory.
Additional information
- An internal recover procedure is available to the staff
- The Availability targets don't change in case the plan is invoked.
- Recovery requirements:
- Maximum tolerable period of disruption (MTPoD) (the maximum amount of time that a service can be unavailable or undelivered after an event that causes disruption to operations, before its stakeholders perceive unacceptable consequences): 2 days
- Recovery time objective (RTO) (the acceptable amount of time to restore the service in order to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with a break in continuity (this has to be less than MTPoD)): 1 days
- Recovery point objective (RPO) (the acceptable latency of data that will not be recovered): 2 days
- approach for the return to normal working conditions as reported in the risk assessment
Availability and Continuity test
During the last major upgrade the providers did a recovery test for monitoring, poem, analytics engine, UI and everything went smoothly. During this process they also updated their ansible scripts and the corresponding Installation Guides.
Revision History
Version | Authors | Date | Comments |
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Alessandro Paolini | 2019-08-21 | first draft, discussing with the provider | |
Alessandro Paolini | 2019-09-16 | risk assessment info added in the wiki | |
Alessandro Paolini | 2020-04-21 | added information about the recovery test; A&C plan finalised | |