2019-05-13 Meeting notes

Date

May 13, 2019

Participants

  • @Abe Ahn (Unlicensed)

  • @Andrea Molinari (Unlicensed) conflict/Not Present but Updates Added

  • @Stacey Driscoll

  • @Karen Yorgy

  • @Wally Chicoine (Deactivated)

  • @Julia Murphy

  • @Leslie Ciccariello (Deactivated)

  • @Thomas Donahue (Deactivated)

  • @Frank Sorrento (Unlicensed)

Goals

  • Review previous action items

  • Collect status updates from all team members

  • Outline new action items

 

Discussion topics

Presenter

Notes

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Notes

Leslie

Lowell Server Room Clean-out Project continuing. Steve to move these servers over to the Telco Rack until we have time to transition these servers over to Rackspace.

Crosspoint Memorial Day power shut down is in order. Matt finalizing processes documentation.

Rackspace Server Assessment/Consolidation Project. Analysis still in progress. Waiting on assessments from Rackspace and server owners.

Windows 10 upgrade project. Metrics have been created. Working on data updates with Matt, creating milestone dates.

Rescheduled Authentication meeting for Boostr 5/15/19 2pm

Traffic Server Upgrade Project. Frank completed task list. Frank working on non-dependent tasks.

Corrupt Router Replacement Project. Working with Brian to create a list of all locations/ address/ contacts. etc. hoping to replace any local units first.

IPsec to SSTP Project. Working with Steve and Kofi to determine ETC see if we need to get some extra resources.

Penetration test. Discussions in the works with Jake from Riptide. Rackspace confirmed that there shouldn't be any issue with the testing. No notification is necessary. The worst that can happen is that, if you are enrolled in their monitoring services, you may get a ticket notifying you about the increased/suspicious traffic, but any further action is up to you.

Phone system/O365 update. working with Sam from Calltower to determine next steps, needs and best pricing. (working with Matt and HR to solidify total #/level user licenses needed.)

Wally

Approaching board for Network-wide upgrade: WAN with dual circuits (fiber or cable, cell backup)

current state: cell (98% uptime); multimillion cost of upgrade ($40 to $200 per site)

Advantages: security + html + streaming at 4k everywhere
Not going with NetBrain; 350k a year

18-30 month project. currently 185 routers that are compromised/breached; can still push ads but can’t get in to the router (52k to replace 185 routers manually, which is the only other option)

Movin gto a different version of Office 365; E5 entreprise (instead of business premium [ for less than 300]
gets us a bunch of built in security features, ability to use MDM (mobile device manager), intune (asset management on each device) anything that connects to our network, it will notify us and will need authority to connect

Use Teams as the communication platform

 

Julia

New High Priority Business Management Systems effort from Hans on behalf of Lucien

New requirment from Megan; may be able to use Corealue’s SVP Opportunity Rollup

More issues with NetSuite than expected, need an opportunity to talk to Andrea; she shut off everyone’s access except for herself’s, problem with backups and John Hayhow (unable to get work done all weekend)
Issues with Sandbox refreshes overwriting other projects

Boostr meeting went well; Lauren is nervous with her departure and 3 new people trying to fill her shoes

Meeting with Campsite CANCELLED: numeric vs alphanumeric field update…

Talon/Eagleclaw meeting for requirements? New thing, lots of new data requirements (screen size, orientation, etc)

To work with Abe on UAT to guide end users

Finance and NOC were unable to connect to outage management; reboot allows folks to connect but it is slow

Abe

RE Sales Ops Budget vs Contracted Models Documented in Confluence

Shifting focus to coordinating UAT and training for CoreValue report migrations - need to collect rest of report owners/testers

Pascual’s Mfg/Ops metrics completed and provided; resuming updates to be provided quarterly (which was not communicated until last week)

Matt Smocovich - Project Fields in Looker. Waiting for ticket/JIRA Issue (getting a head start based on some screenshots)

Abe vacation on Thursday and Friday, back on Monday (groomsman for a wedding in Seattle area wish me luck/good weather)

Andrea

PO Approval Workflow - in development with Core Value - call @ 10 to review with team

RES Revamp Phase 1 Deployment over this past weekend - call @ 10:30 to review results

CRM/Data API Project - updates and documentation needed for Confluence; waiting for results of today’s meeting on update re: deployment schedule; @Stacey Driscoll is the PO form for CRM available in Sandbox? Would like to include in the PO Approval Workflow project w/CV for future deployment - form, fields, Captivate SO Type, Approval flow if different than existing approval flow

Boostr Implementation - to be scheduled, possibly bring in form and field creation, follow up with Adam to offer assistance and check status of communication with NS Support re: Subsidiaries

Tipalti - reviewing documentation, prepare for 6/1 go live w/PO workflow; training

BMS Projects -

  • Scope RES Phase 2 project - review and outline process through install/invoice

  • Follow up on Asks for approved Finance projects

Confluence - Add process documents, workflows, login credentials TBA’s for existing integration connections and all projects preparing for deployment - Visibility and ability to fix any broken API/Integration connections in-house

Deployment Calendar - add to Confluence page for visibility and scheduling of projects from SB to Production

Schedule SandBox Refresh before start of next new project start

Stacey

CRM to NetSuite Project:

  • Flow of data

  • Updates to Programmatic section of Server

  • Import Misc Parts and Services into Sandbox

  • Complete Forms/Fields/Lists/Workflow spreadsheet

Work with Jacey on updating Vendor Ids

  • @Andrea Molinari (Unlicensed) has Jacey been given Vendor Import access yet?

Corevalue priority for new reports

Vistar Weekly Report

Campsite Weekly Report

Frank

  • SQL Upgrades - need Wally to approve additional cost of storage with Rackspace so we can build out the new servers

  • API Integration - need to work with Julia on the revenue reporting requirements for CoreValue. They need to know which fields we want to capture from each ad exchange, and at what aggregation level.

  • Meeting tomorrow with Logan Data about integrating our AWS environment with Rackspace and using S3 for file server

Karen

  • Tuesday - in Boston, attending Angelbeat session on Cloud/Security/Containers/AI/Digital Transformation

  • Continuing process to archive Schedule and Verify log files to AWS S3 storage.

  • Started build of QA environment in AWS, with CAP-ROCAP01, with a large sampling of the log files.
    *This will be good for Traffic upgrade testing.
    *Documenting as is for Traffic environment

  • Moved Database Archives to S3.

  • Ongoing:
    Active Directory integration with AWS / OKTA
    Troubleshooting more frequent recent failures with the Snowflake job on Cap-Corpsfa (Venueworklistvenues)
    AWS Infrastructure diagram

Action items

@Wally Chicoine (Deactivated) approve Frank’s request for additinoal cost of storage with Rackspace
@Karen Yorgy to reach out to Andrea about NetSuite Backups, whether they are not enabled

Decisions