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Attendees:
- Stephanie Ayers
- Esmé Cowles
- Kate Lynch
- Kevin Reiss
Agenda:
- Review about statement
- Brainstorm action items for December/January
Notes:
- Applications/services to sunset
- Video Reserves Database
- Pufla Help Form
- Omeka/mediawiki transcription
- Front-end to Council of Foreign Relations mp3 files
- EAL Apps (Tom Ventigmilia)
- Supplemental catalog (?)
- Firestone Lockers and Carrels Database
- Access Office MDB
- Old Reserve System MDB+PDFs (think these files are on DBserver)
- Preservation Tracking Application
- MASC (Read only SC)
- PPLCAT (Read only Archive)
- PULFA
- PUDL + PUDL test
- Loris
- Meridian (maybe?)
- Veridian (bluemountain, papersofprinceton)
- Libserv64 (SC digitized content)
- Libserv39 (SC static websites)
- Solr 7
- PHP 7.2 (EOL)
- Legacy databases (MariaDB / Postgres 10 / MySQL) - move all to virtual clusters
- Graylog
- Matomo (using up 250GB of disk space)
- SFX (Post July 2021)
- libimages*
- Voyager (Post July 2021)
- Collection Space https://collectionspace.org (SC)
- liphp-prod/libphp-dev applications
- Whatever is on LibDBServer
- Audit the list of physical servers to see if anything should be added to this list.
- Develop procedures for enabling ease of adoption of sunsetting procedures, throughout the software lifecycle.
- Some way of adding something to a list of things that we would like to sunset, that is not yet sunset, as a way to flag “this is a deprecated service, please don’t add to it” when the service itself is not ready to be sunset.
- Combat the “libserv64 effect” when a service is turned off and feedback is only received after the service is decommissioned
- Develop best practices for things to avoid because they will make sunsetting more difficult
Exercise: Sunsetting PULFA
- Arks in PULFA changing in PULFAlight, how to manage
- Figgy harvests and loads data from/to PULFA
- How are staff using PULFA SVN repository?
- abID functionality and label generation
- Disconnect the network (service still up in the event that a restore is needed, and this does not require a reboot)
- Backup virtual server, and power off
- Backups of physical servers are more difficult.
- We tend to have fewer and fewer physical servers.
- Step 1 - PULFALight (create a successor system)
- Step 2 - Determine Product Owner(s) (stakeholder who can back up decision to sunset old service)
- Step 3 - Determine other service dependencies on this service
- Step 4 - Work with stakeholder to determine all of the uses and dependencies of the users
- Step 5 - Decommissioning process in stages
- Step 6 - Keep backups of powered off services for 1 year (communicate this to stakeholders and product owners).
Action items
- (Stephanie) Add a “deprecated services” list to service catalog (from the notes above) in Confluence
- (all) Review and update the service catalog.
- (Kate) Find a regular time to meet in 2021, plan to meet on 12/18.
- (Kate) Create a template for sunsetting exercise (to be ultimately turned into a checklist for decommissioning)