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Weekly change newsletter 11/21/2024 -Update

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Each week, the CMS Cloud program provides a list of upcoming changes, maintenance windows, and updates to help customers build awareness and plan effectively and summarizes changes from the previous week.

This newsletter includes:

* Completed change summary for the week of 11/14/2024 [ #CC ]
* 11/24/2024 - DevOps Services Maintenance [ #DevOps ]
* 11/24/2024 - Splunk HTTP Event Collector (HEC) maintenance  [ #Splunk ]
* 11/24/2024 - Cloud Storage Virus Scan Version Upgrade [ #Cloud ]
* 11/27/2024 - Non-Marketplace PROD SSM Patching [ #NMSSM ]
* Reminder - Open Enrollment (OE12) - Moratorium [ #OE12 ]

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Completed change summary for the week of 11/14/2024

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11/15/2024 - CMS Cloud Monthly Gold Image Release [ https://cloud.cms.gov/News ]


* 11/15/2024 - Enterprise Confluence Update [ https://cloud.cms.gov/News ]
* 11/17/2024 - Recycle Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS) Services - PROD [ https://cloud.cms.gov/News ]
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11/17/2024 - Apply WSUS group policy for Domain Controller [ https://cloud.cms.gov/News ]


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11/17/2024 - Enterprise JIRA Maintenance [ https://cloud.cms.gov/News ]

  To learn details about previous changes please go to the News and Updates [ https://cloud.cms.gov/News ] section on cloud.cms.gov. (Secure Access required)

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11/24/2024 DevOps Services Maintenance

*Summary*

CMS Cloud will be performing maintenance updates on its DevOps tools.

*Actions we are taking*


* Upgrade CloudBees Jenkins CI, Jfrog, ans SonarQube
* Upgrade nodes to latest EKS gold image for CMS Cloud Jfrog, CBJ and SonarQube
* Upgrade EKS add-ons and supporting components

*When is this happening?*

Start time: Sunday, 11/24/2024 at 12:00 a.m. ET
End time: Sunday, 11/24/2024 at 4:00 a.m. ET

*Who will be impacted?*

All AWS Commercial and GovCloud customers of CloudBees, JFrog, and SonarQube.

*What is the impact? *

Customers should expect a short downtime for each service as instances are restarted within the maintenance window.

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11/24/2024 - Splunk HTTP Event Collector (HEC) maintenance 

*Summary*

In order to keep the logging environment up to date and performing well, the CMS Cloud team will conduct maintenance on the Cloud instances of the Http Event Collector (HEC) infrastructure this Sunday November, 17.

*Actions we are taking*


* Restart Production HEC Servers 
* Relaunch Production HEC Servers (This will prepare the instances to support the Queue Tuning)
* Implement Queue Tuning on HEC Cluster

*When is this happening?*

Start Time: Sunday, 11/24/2024 at 9:00 a.m. ET
End Time: Sunday, 11/24/2024 at 12:00 p.m. ET

*Who will be impacted?*

Customers will not be impacted by this change. 

*What is the impact? *

The old HEC instances will be replaced and restarted in batches. There should be no downtime or data loss experienced during the upgrade.

*Benefits of the change *

The HEC forwarders will be able to support the increased size of the Persistent Queue which will improve performance.

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11/27/2024 - Cloud Storage Virus Scan Version Upgrade

*Summary*

CMS Cloud team will assist the customer in deploying a new Cloud-Storage Virus Scan application version.

*Actions we are taking*

Deploy new CloudFormation template to update the 3rd party Cloud Storage Virus Scan application.

*When is this happening?*

Start time: Sunday, 11/24/2024 at 9:00 a.m. ET
End time: Sunday, 11/24/2024 at 12:00 p.m. ET

*Who will be impacted?*

Customer FFM_HIOS.

*What is the impact? *

There will be no customer downtime with this update.

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11/27/2024 - Non-Marketplace SSM patching - PROD

*Summary*


* Non-Marketplace PROD
* SSM Linux & Windows Vulnerability Patching

*Actions we are taking: *

As part of our normal patching, the CMS Cloud team will apply the latest Windows and Linux patches on Wednesday, 11/27/2024 at 9:00 p.m. ET.  The week's patches will impact the PROD environment for the affected Non-Marketplace applications noted below.

*When is this happening?*

Start Time: Wednesday, 11/27/2024 at 9:00 p.m. ET

End Time: Thursday, 11/28/2024 at 2:00 a.m ET

*Who will be impacted? *

Reboot - CEDAR, Million Hearts, FFSDCS, RASS, OC Base- eLDAP, SC CLIA, NTP LMS, Spott MACBIS, MDP, OC Base- WNMG, NEIL/HRES, OC Base- EWST, MacFin, eAPD Hi-C, OC Base- CMS Cloud Legacy, OC Base- DevSecOps SecDevOps, iServ, MDP, PECOS2.0, SEI, NDW, OC Base- PWSS, TRA, CMS ARTS, MCIM, RAD Analysis Tools, MCIM, Perm,  CMS Cloud - CRE, CMS Cloud - Enterprise Agile Tools, CMS Cloud tamer, CMS Cloud - CARD, CMS Cloud - ECS Fargate, CMS Cloud - Direct Connect, CMS Cloud - Jfrog SonarCube, CMS Cloud - DNS Prod, CMS Cloud - SRE, CMS Cloud - Governance 2.0, MEOWx, CMS Cloud - CloudBees Jenkins, CMS Cloud - CET, CMS Cloud - DevSecOps, CMS Cloud - Utilities, CMS Cloud - Testrail, CMS Cloud - CircleCI, CMS Cloud - Sam GSS Security GovCloud, SWIFT

No reboot -  MEPBS, EACMS, MacPro, PS&R, RDS, OC Base- APIM GEO, 1115 PMDA, CMS Cloud - Governance 2.0, CMS Cloud - QuickDNS, CMS Cloud - CMSNet, CMS Cloud - CCG Web Content, CMS Cloud - Network Arch, CMS Cloud - VPC Automation, CMS Cloud - Security Team, CMS Cloud - CCG Web Content, CMS Cloud Temporal, CMS Cloud - Splunk, CMS Cloud - CET, AWS GSS Security GC, CMS Cloud - Splunk GovCloud Dev

*What is the impact? *

Patches will be transmitted to the affected areas. For some customers, reboots may occur depending upon the tags applied.

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*Reminder - Open Enrollment (OE12) - Moratorium*

*Summary*

To help ensure that we maintain good system performance and stability during CMS Healthcare Open Enrollment, an annual Moratorium period has been established to shift the scheduling of production system changes into a designated weekly maintenance windows which occurs on most Sundays.

*KEY DATES*: (click to download the OE12 schedule and key dates pdf file [ https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/USCMS/2024/09/25/file_attachments/3010280/OE%2012%20Moratorium.pdf ])

Start time: Tuesday, October 1, 2024 at 12:00 a.m. ET

End time: Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. ET

*Maintenance Windows: *Sunday 12:00 a.m. ET – 12:00 p.m. ET **


* November 3, 10, 17, 24 
* December 1, 8, 22, 29 

*Who will be impacted?*

Any Hybrid Cloud IT Operations team planning to make a change to a system supporting the CMS Healthcare Marketplace either directly or indirectly.  

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