PROC16 Decommissioning of unsupported software
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Title | Unsupported software version decommission |
Document link | https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/PROC16 |
Last modified | 1.0 |
Policy Group Acronym | OMB |
Policy Group Name | Operations Management Board |
Contact Group | operations at mailman.egi.eu |
Document Status | Draft |
Approved Date | |
Procedure Statement | A procedure for removal of unsupported software version from production infrastructure. |
Owner | Owner of procedure |
Overview
Unsupported software version decommission procedure was created to define steps which have to be taken to remove unsupported software version from the production infrastructure.
Terminology
Decommissioning start date
- from this date NGIs and sites should start action to move their services to supported versions
End of Security Updates and Support
- from this day the software is unsupported
- sites should not run unsupported software version in production infrastructure
Decommissioning deadline
- from this day no services with unsupported software version can be present in production infrastructure (they should be decommissioned or in downtime)
- in case of violation security team can remove the site from production infrastructure
Steps
Following steps are taken since End of Security Updates and Support is known for COO
Decommissioning start date
- COO on OMB announceEnd of Security Updates and Support and Decommission deadline for service migration.
- The broadcast is send to NGI managers and Site administrators.
- NGI managers announce the information to the site.
- New probe is developed for the MW nagios that extracts hostnames from GOCDB and BDII associated to type and raises critical alarm in the operations dashboard.
- ROD teams followup the service migration by creating operations ticket through Operations Dashboard till the decommissioning deadline. Site admins should provide migration or decommission plan within 2 weeks. If not escalation procedure for problems with unsupported MW at site should be applied.
After Decommisioning deadline
- COD team followup the migration and if needed suspend sites which didn't migrate or are not in downtime.
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