Deployment Lessons

This wiki page outlines the lessons learned when deploying to our first alpha site.

Actors	Pre-Deployment	Deployment	Post-Deployment
Lab		Deploy as early in the work week as possible, avoiding long weekends and holidays when support from OSP is unavailable. Best to have at least 2-3 days left in the week when OSP support will be available if needed.
		Have staff available outside of regular working hours. May be difficult to work remotely while site's network is active.	Have staff available outside of regular working hours. May be difficult to work remotely while site's network is active.
		Make sure deployment staff have good network connectivity to scoophub. This means that they should probably not be at the clinic but in a location with good connectivity to the hub, good monitors, etc. Not the clinic server room where it might be hard to get an outside network connection to UVic.	Make sure deployment staff have good network connectivity to scoophub. This means that they should probably not be at the clinic but in a location with good connectivity to the hub, good monitors, etc. Not the clinic server room where it might be hard to get an outside network connection to UVic.
	Be sure to update Endpoint Oscar just before shipping to clinic and again before starting it up if changes have been made. Was a problem for Bayswater since the installed version of Endpoint Oscar needed updates.	Update query-gateway if necessary when deployed. Wasn't necessary for Bayswater but could be an issue if the endpoint is in transit for an extended period before deployment or we are making frequent code updates.
	Have a suite of Data Quality SQL queries to diagnose problems seen during the E2E export/import	Make sure that there is a root cronjob to restart autossh before deploying the server. (Not a problem for Bayswater since I made sure there was. Don't know whether the network has been sufficiently unstable that it was needed but it is there if needed.)
OSP	Confirm availability of OSP during installation	Re-confirm availability of OSP during installation
	Confirm no practice OSCAR updates are occurring at the same time as the SCOOP node deployment	Re-confirm no practice OSCAR updates are occurring at the same time as the SCOOP node deployment
Clinic	Confirm no practice OSCAR updates are occurring at the same time as the SCOOP node deployment
	Have clinic indicate any outstanding service request issues relating to Network, Servers, and OSCAR / back up.	Have clinic indicate any outstanding service request issues relating to Network, Servers, and OSCAR / back up.
	Ask clinic for number of active patients so we know how many E2E records to expect.