Failover Exercise 


ISS are undertaking failover proving exercises for all virtualised IT servers and services.

Failover Exercise Log

10/09/2011 - ISS Failover Exercise

The scheduled failover exercise was undertaken on Saturday and proved useful in providing information about how the virtual infrastructure systems perform in potential failure scenarios. This information will enable ISS to improve the service.

All services should now be fully restored.


 

Affected Services

The following services should be considered at risk during this period:

    Agresso

    Alumni

    Attendance monitoring (Attlog)

    Car Parking

    CASIGMA (Careers)

    Cesagen Sociomics Desktop (web portal)

    CETAD's web pages (www.cetad.lancs.ac.uk)

    Cognos

    DCS web (www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/)

    Dynamics CRM

    Eduroam wireless access
    (only for new connections made while server down)

    Employee Self Service

    Engineering website

    E-Sight (Power management utility)

    Facilities Planon Helpdesk

    Flexible Benefits

    FOI requests

    iLancaster

    Incident reporting (IRIS)

    JISC Advance RSC Northwest:
     - Web Pages (http://www.rsc-northwest.ac.uk/)
     - Moodle (http://moodle.rsc-northwest.ac.uk/)

    Job Vacancies

    Libweb

    Library Catalogue

    Library Ezproxy

    Library Metalib/SFX

    LUMES

    LUSI Online

    LUVLE

    Nuffield Theatre ticketing

    PFACT

    Planon

    Postgraduate Applications

    ProClarity

    Remedy (ISS Service Desk)

    Residences (Kinetix)

    ResNet connectivity
    (only for new connections made while server down)

    Resourcelink (HR & payroll)

    SharePoint services

    Timetabling & Room bookings

    TS2000 (Time sheets)

Members of ISS will be on campus working on this throughout the period. ISS will continue to monitor the systems after the exercise is completed and will work with service and virtual server owners to ensure their services are fully available by Monday morning. Any service owner who wishes, will be contacted by email to check their systems after the exercise.

If you have any further questions please contact Graeme Hughes (g.d.hughes /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)

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