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This Live defect was originally raised on 1st March as a response to the overwhelming number of files ESR sent to us. ESR told us previously that the maximum number of full files they could send us was 3 per week. On w/c 1st of March, they sent through 9 files , for 8 distinct with 1 additional“Deaneries”.
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Trigger
Unexpected number of FULL FILES (RMF) causing an overload on the TIS-ESR interface.
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We sized Mongo on the basis we wouldn’t get many full files.
There isn’t anything to signal that Mongo is struggling before a fatal VM failure.
The VM doesn’t stop and start in a reasonable time.
The replica set isn’t as ‘highly available’ as it should be (not on separate VMs)
For the MEDROT we were sending values for their “Virtual Private Directory” “96” rather than the “096” they wanted
ESR doesn’t treats the number 96 as being different to 096
The TIS integration followed ESRs specification that this was a “variable length number”, up to 3 digits long.
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Action Items
Action Items | Owner |
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Test loading full files with a larger instance | Joseph (Pepe) Kelly … good evidence that the larger instance is processing 6 files, steadily and at a reasonable rate |
[not critical] Clean up Applicant records (for past placements) marked as | |
Calendar of releases/milestones would be useful. | Andy Nash (Unlicensed) has started this in the team calendar |
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