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Introduction

This page reports on the Availability and Continuity Plan for CheckIn and it is the result of the risk assessment conducted for this service: a series of risks and threats 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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Performances

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

  • Availability: 99%
  • Reliability 99%

Over the past years, PERUN 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 Treatment Expected duration of downtime / time for recovery
1 Service unavailable / loss of data due to hardware failure All "All services/data sturctures are running on virtual machines and in high availability mode.

In case of software failure on a virtual machine the back up installation will take over. If the software is unavailable in all instances the a new virtual machine would be spawned in GRNET's private environment. High availability deployment will reduce outages due to software failures to almost zero."

Low Restore service from the backups on the new hosts which are not affected by the failure. Almost Zero
2 Service unavailable / loss of data due to software failure Load balancer, IdP/SP proxy, Master Portal "All services/data structures are running on virtual machines and in high availability mode.

In case of software failure on a virtual machine the back up installation will take over. If the software is unavailable in all instances the a new virtual machine would be spawned in GRNET's private environment. High availability deployment will reduce outages due to human error failures to almost zero."

Medium Restore service from the backups, log data analysis in order to find a reason of the software failure. Zero for the case of partial failure. 3-4 work hours if a new virtual machine need to be spawned.
3 service unavailable / loss of data due to human error Load balancer, IdP/SP proxy, Master Portal "All services/data structures are running on virtual machines and in high availability mode.

In case of software failure on a virtual machine the back up installation will take over. If the software is unavailable in all instances the a new virtual machine would be spawned in GRNET's private environment. High availability deployment will reduce outages due to human error failures to almost zero."

Medium Restore service/data from backups. Revise actions done which led to the failure and modification of the processes in order to not allow the same error again. Zero for the case of partial failure. 3-4 work hours if a new virtual machine need to be spawned.
4 service unavailable for network failure (Network outage with causes external of the site) Load balancer, IdP/SP proxy, Master Portal GRNET has redundant network connectivity Low Standard mitigation and recovery procedures made by network operators. Almost Zero. 3-4 working hours in case of maintenance
5 Unavailability of key technical and support staff (holidays period, sickness, ...) Load balancer, IdP/SP proxy, Master Portal At least one person from the core team (5 team members) is still available. Low At least one person from the core team (5 team members) is available.
6 Major disruption in the data centre. Fire, flood or electric failure for example Load balancer, IdP/SP proxy, Master Portal 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 Restore service from the backups on the new hosts which are not affected by the failure. 1-2 weeks, the time to deploy recover operational status at CESGA or the service to another resource centre partner of the NGI
7 Major security incident. The system is compromised by external attackers and needs to be reinstalled and restored. All The backend database store is operated in clustered mode, supporting streaming replication and Point-in-Time Recovery for a period of six months (minimum). Daily backups are also executed. Backups are stored in a separate system and can be restored at once, losing up to 24 hours of data. Low Restore service from backups on a new hosts. 3-4 work hours. In case new host certificates are required, up to 1 day.
8 (D)DOS attack. The service is unavailable because of a coordinated DDOS. Load balancer, IdP/SP proxy, Master Portal GRNET network provides protection for DOS attacks, firewall can limit impact of the DDoS Low Utilization of DDOS protection on the network level provided by GRNET. Depending on the attack, few hours maximum

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 and evaluating any eventual loss of information Performing this test will be useful to spot any issue in the recovery procedures of the service.

  • Start of recovery scenario test:
Tue Dec 4 09:09:02 CET 2018 One of the two VMs running the IdP/SP Proxy service instance has been disrupted and needs to be reinstalled from scratch.
  • End of test recovery scenario:
Tue Dec 4 10:40:01 CET 2018: We assumed a scenario where the second IdP/SP proxy node faced a hardware failure and a new VM had to be spawned in order to restore it and able
to provide the Check-in service in high availability/load balancing mode.

The process of spawning the new VM started at 09:25 CET (we allocated approx. 15 minutes for simulating the analysis since the detection of the VM failure at 09:09 CET).

It should be noted that during the 1,5 hours that the IdP/SP Proxy node was down the existing user sessions were not affected and new user sessions could be established without any noticeable delay.

Revision History

Version Authors Date Comments

Alessandro Paolini 2018-11-09 first draft

Alessandro Paolini