FY08 Tactical Plan Status Report for Network Infrastructure Upgrades

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FY08 Tactical Plan Status Report forNetwork
Infrastructure Upgrades

• Rick Finnegan
• April 22, 2008

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FY08 Tactical Plan for Network Infrastructure
Upgrades

• Relevant Strategic Plan
• Core Networking Strategic Plan FY2008 v1
• Tactical Plan Leader Rick Finnegan
• Organizational Unit home
• LSC-CNCS-NET
• Tactical Plan Goals
• Maintain network infrastructure capacity well
  ahead of current use and projected near term
  requirements
• Network infrastructure should be maintained at
  the forward end of established network technology
• Reliability of network infrastructure and
  services should be maximized
• Wireless network support should be fully
  integrated in the general network infrastructure
• The network architecture should provide for
  varying levels of access needs for attached
  systems

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Activities Summary FTEs
Level 0 Activity UPGRADES of FY Complete of FY Complete 50

Personnel Usage (FTEs)
  Allocation Allocation Actual YTD Actual YTD   Current
Tactical Plan Level 1 Activity FTE-yrs FTE-mos FTE-yrs (Ave/mo.) FTE-mos Consumed YTD FY08 Forecast
Upgrades      
Customer 0.85 10.2 0.50 3.00 30  70
Core 0.20 2.40 0.17 1.00 42 100 
Wireless 0.15 1.80 0.22 1.30 72 120 
Firewall 0.30 3.60 0.07 0.40 11 25 
WISM 0.20 2.40 0.20 1.20 50 100 
DNS-DHCP 0.25 3.00 0.12 0.70 23 70 
Total 1.95 23.40 1.28 7.60 32  
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Activities Summary MS (Internal Funding)
Level 0 Activity UPGRADES UPGRADES of FY Complete of FY Complete 50

Operating Equipment MS Operating Equipment MS Operating Equipment MS CD Internal Funding CD Internal Funding
  Operations MS Operations MS Operations MS Operations MS Operations MS Equipment MS Equipment MS Equipment MS Equipment MS
Tactical Plan Level 1 Activity FY Obligation Budget YTD Obligations RIPS YTD Obligations RIPS Spent Current FY08 Forecast FY Obligation Budget YTD Obligations RIPS Spent Current FY08 Forecast
Upgrades 263 67 67 25   100 132 46.4 35   100
Customer 0 0 0 ---   0 0 0  
Core 0 0 0 ---   0 0 0  
Wireless 0 0 0 ---   0 0 0  
Firewall 0 0 0 ---   0 0 0  
WISM 0 0 0 ---   0 0 0  
DNS-DHCP 0 0 0 ---   0 0 0  
Total 263 67 67 25   100 132 46.4 35   100
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Project Activity Network Upgrades Customer

• Projects related to Customers
• Deliverables
• These are planned upgrades to customer networks
• When throughout the year
• Acceptance criteria is the customers accepting
  and planning for the upgrades
• Recipients are Network Customers
• Key Milestones
• Switch and routers to be upgraded
• Individual upgrades planned throughout the year
• Impact is low if the date is not met
• Issues and Risks (specific to this activity,
  includes budget impact)
• Issues are that customers may have to endure
  minor outages
• Risks are the network gear will be end of life or
  outages may occur

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Project Activity Network Upgrades Core

• Projects related to Core Networks
• Deliverables
• These are planned upgrades to core networks
• When throughout the year
• Acceptance criteria is the successful completion
  of the upgrades
• Recipients are all networking Customers
• Key Milestones
• Switch and routers to be upgraded
• When planned throughout the year
• Impact is low if the date is not met
• Issues and Risks (specific to this activity,
  includes budget impact)
• Issues are that customers may have to endure
  minor outages
• Risks are the network gear will be end of life

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Project Activity Network Upgrades Wireless

• Brief Description Installation of additional
  access points
• Deliverables
• Planned installs of new Access Points for
  additional coverage in Fixed Target, DO CDF
• Actual progress is on schedule
• Acceptance criteria is the users testing the new
  Access Points
• Recipients are the customers using the new Access
  Points
• Key Milestones
• What is it implementing new access points
• When The plan is 15 of 30 for the first half of
  the year, actual is 14
• Impact is low and is felt by users needing
  additional coverage
• Metrics (see the next page for a chart of
  progress)
• Issues and Risks
• Risks are that customers will continue to have no
  coverage until new planned Access Points are
  installed

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Project Activity Network Upgrades Wireless

• Metrics for new access points to improve
  coverage.

• Issues Risks
• The risks are that if the new access points are
  not installed we will continue to have areas with
  not enough coverage.

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Project Activity Network Upgrades Firewall

• Brief Description Rolling out the yellow zone
  to new subnets
• Deliverables
• What is it moving user subnets to the yellow
  zone
• When The plan is based on soliciting volunteers
• Acceptance criteria is users being put behind the
  transition tool and accepting traffic flows
• Recipient is Customer subnets
• Key Milestones
• What is it number of subnets converted to the
  yellow zone
• When plan is dependent on soliciting new
  customers
• Impact is low this is a security concern and
  not a functional requirement
• URL Project Plan http//netweb/projects/firewall
  .html
• Metrics none at this time, the project is on
  hold
• Issues and Risks (specific to this activity,
  includes budget impact)
• The Risks are that we are not getting
  groups/subnets to volunteer to move to the yellow
  zone. This has slowed the progress of the
  project, however, BSS has agreed to move to the
  yellow zone.

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Project Activity Network Upgrades WISM

• Brief Description - wireless access point
  upgrades to Wism
• Deliverables
• Planned upgrades of Access Points from IOS to
  WISM
• Actual progress is ahead of schedule
• Acceptance criteria is the users testing the
  converted Access Points
• Recipient is the customers using the Access
  Points
• Key Milestones
• What is it the number of access points
  converted
• When planned vs actual 260 for the year, 240
  are done at this point
• Impact is medium Customers of unconverted
  access points are still functioning but they do
  no support the WISM blocking
• URL Project Plan http//netweb/projects/wism.htm
  l
• Metrics (see the next page for a chart of
  progress)
• Issues and Risks
• Issues are that customers may not be willing to
  take minor outages, this is the case currently
  with the Accelerator Division

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Project Activity Network Upgrades Wireless

• Metrics for upgrades of access points from IOS to
  WiSM

• Issues Risks
• Devices remaining to be converted are from the
  Accelerator Division. The timing is dependant on
  AD, there are no risks.

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Project Activity Network Upgrades DNS-DHCP

• Brief Description Upgrading DNS/DHCP software
• Deliverables
• What is it Upgrading DHCP/DNS to Linux and the
  latest software also converting all systems to
  standard builds to be taken over by central
  server management.
• When planned vs actual the current progress
  is slightly ahead of the plan
• Acceptance criteria is testing DHCP and DNS from
  selected areas of the lab
• Recipients are all Customers at the lab.
• Key Milestones
• What is it The number of servers converted
  compared to the total, 13.
• When planned vs actual The plan is to have
  half the servers converted
• Impact is high because the current software we
  are running is unsupported
• URL Project Plan http//netweb/projects/dns.html
  
• Metrics (see the next page for a chart of
  progress)

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Project Activity DNS/DHCP Upgrade

• Metrics for DNS/DHCP Upgrade.

• Issues Risks
• The risks are that the current software is so old
  that we can not receive support from the vendor.

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Tactical Plan Issues and Risks

• Action Items
• We need to stay focused on project upgrades even
  though we have a reduction in FTEs.
• Issues and Risks (includes overall budget impact)
• Reduction in staff could cause delays in
  projects.
• Fewer resources could cause delays in projects.
• There are no serious consequences for CD and
  stakeholders
• Fewer resources working on projects due to
  operational activities
• Estimated probability of occurring is medium.
• Estimated impact is that some projects could get
  pushed in to next year.
• Fall-back or Contingency plan is to add resources
  to key projects from other parts of the
  networking team.

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Tactical Plan Status Summary

• Status Summary
• FTEs for Operations are slightly below the
  targets. This will be fixed with the new hire.
• A reduction in staff for the first 6 months has
  adversely affected the number of hours spent on
  projects.
• Fewer resources results in a higher percentage of
  time spent on operations resulting in less
  availability for projects.