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Revision as of 12:57, 28 May 2018

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Service Availability and continuty plan structure

- Performances (A/R targets agreed in the OLA, comment about the past behaviour and any particular issue)

- summary of the risks assessment

- Av.Co. tests and results

Introduction

This page reports on the Availability and Continuity Plan for the Accounting Portal 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 2018-05-03 2019 May
Av/Co plan and test 2018-05-28 2019 May

Hardware HA Configuration

 * The Accounting Portal service is available in a dedicated virtual machine
   running in the CESGA cloud framework based on OpenNebula software, which
   offers high availability thanks to its resources:
  * A pool of physical servers where the virtual machine can run. Over 50 servers with 24 cores and 32GB per server are available. These servers are configured with redundant power supply and two disks in RAID-1 configuration.
     * Storage is provided in a NetApp HA storage solution, providing
       redundant configuration for data movers (servers) and RAID-TEC (triple parity) protection
       for the disks; the backup of this storage is performed on a daily basis


Performances

The performances reports in terms of Availability and Reliability are produced by ARGO on an almost real time basis and they are also collected every 6 months into the Documentation Database (last period July 2017 - December 2017.

In the OLA it was agreed the following performances targets, on a monthly basis:

  • Availability: 99%
  • Reliability 99%

Over the past years, the Accounting Portal 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
1 Service unavailable / loss of data due to hardware failure All All services are running on virtual machines. In case of hardware failure of the host machine the virtual machine can be re-instantiated in another hypervisor in the private cloud. Daily backups of the service including database data. Low In case an instance must be instantiated from backups can take up to two-three working hours.

In case latest backups are not available some data must be re-generate from the central accounting repositories and this may take up to two hours.

the measures already in place are considered satisfactory and risk level is acceptable
2 Service unavailable / loss of data due to software failure All Restoring of the codebase via git repository Low One to two working hours the measures already in place are considered satisfactory and risk level is acceptable
3 service unavailable / loss of data due to human error All Restoring of the codebase via git repository, restore of backup of virtual machine, restoring of data from SSM services. Low Two to Three working 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) Web frontend CESGA has redundant network connectivity to the NREN Low Close to zero, less than one hour. the measures already in place are considered satisfactory and risk level is acceptable
5 Unavailability of key technical and support staff (holidays period, sickness, ...) All More personnel have been involved in the operation of the Accounting portal, this ensures actions taken within the OLA goals every working day. There is also internal documentation with management procedures and portal architecture. Low Within the OLA targets for operational actions

Longer periods in case of bugs or maintenance (one week) because not all the personnel can develop patches to the code.

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 All The computing centre has electric backup system and fire control devices. In case of an occurrence despite the controls, the virtual machine can be instantiated elsewhere. Low 1-2 weeks, the time to deploy recover operational status at CESGA or the service to another resource centre partner of the NGI 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. Frontend and DB Daily backup are executed. Backup is stored in a separate system and can be restored in another VM Low 1-2 work hours. In case new host certificates are required, up to 2 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. Web interface NREN provides protection for DOS attacks, firewall can limit impact of the DDoS Low Depending on the attack, few hours maximum 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

Availability and Continuity test

The proposed A/C test will focus on a recovery scenario: the service has been disrupted and needs to be reinstalled from scratch. The time spent for restoring the service will be measured, using the last backup of the data stored in it (how much information would be lost?)(risks 1,2, and 6?)(how many other operational tool would be affected?).

Performing this test will be useful to spot any issue in the recovery procedures of the service.

Revision History

Version Authors Date Comments

Alessandro Paolini 2018-05-03 first draft, discussing with the provider
Ivan Diaz 2018-05-28 added a paragraph about HA configuration