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 12/19/2024
To learn details about previous changes please go to the News and Updates section on cloud.cms.gov. (Secure Access required)
12/26/2024 - 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 Thursday, 12/26/2024 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: Thursday, 12/26/2024 at 9:00 p.m. ET
End Time: Friday, 12/27/2024 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.
12/29/2024 - Splunk HTTP Event Collector (HEC) maintenance
Summary
In order to keep the environment performing well, the CMS Cloud team will conduct maintenance on the Cloud instances of the Http Event Collector (HEC) infrastructure this Sunday, December 29th.
Actions we are taking
- Restart Production HEC Servers
When is this happening?
Start Time: Sunday, 12/29/2024 at 9:00 a.m. ET
End Time: Sunday, 12/29/2024 at 12:00 p.m. ET
Who will be impacted?
Customers will not be impacted by this change.
What is the impact?
Restart Production HEC Servers - There should be no downtime or data loss experienced during the upgrade.
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)
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
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.
Need help? We are here to support you.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to your assigned Hosting Coordinator. CMS IT Support can be reached via cloudsupport@cms.hhs.gov, or call (800) 562-1963, and is documented here at Support Page on cloud.cms.gov.
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