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For the purposes of this document, production systems are defined as any system, to include allocated systems, intended to provide reliable computational and/or data services to a networked constituency. These systems include not only “customer facing” hosts, such as web servers, file servers, login nodes, etc., but also the infrastructure required to support these systems, such as backend database servers, backup and storage systems, authentication servers, etc.
NCSA
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Information Infrastructure Board (IIB)
The leaders of ADS (Advanced Digital Services), ITS (Information Technology Services), and Security are responsible for application of this policy. These three groups are the service providers of infrastructure at NCSA and meet regularly to discuss security issues and strategy for providing better services.
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Definition:
This zone includes all Raised Access Floor (RAF) space in the NCSA building, as well as a logical extrusion into NPCF for redundancy. Most of this space maps physically to the 3rd floor server room, 3003 NCSA.zone in the NPCF data center.
Types of Systems:
This zone is for servers supporting R&D projects and internal services at NCSA. The ITS director IIB determines which systems are placed in this zone based on space, power, cooling, security and usage networking considerations together with ADS and Security. Systems in this zone do not have the same 24/7 level of service, uptime requirements, network bandwidth and security services available to them baseline service level guarantees as those in the HPDC zone, including security services provided.
Servers, whether supporting internal NCSA services or NCSA projects and their customers, are important, and their compromise can have a significant effect NCSA productivity and reputation. Whether or not they are even considered production servers, the impact can be significant if the data on the systems is exposed due to privacy considerations, regulatory & legal requirements, or confidentiality agreements. Therefore, certain accountability is still required of all these systems.
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