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Weekly change newsletter 08/01/2024 -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 07/25/2024 [ #CC ]
* 08/03/2024 - Enterprise Testing Services Maintenance [ #testing ]
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08/04/2024 - Marketplace SSM Patching - PROD [ #mssm ]


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08/04/2024 - BigFix Relay Affiliation - Phase 2 [ #big ]

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07/25/2024 Completed changes

* 07/25/2024 - DevOps Services Maintenance [ #DO ] 
* 07/25/2024 - batCAVE Infrastructure Maintenance - PROD [ #Bat ]
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07/26/2024 - Splunk Version Upgrade [ #Splunk ]


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07/27/2024 – BigFix Inventory Patch  [ #BigFixP ]


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07/28/2024 - BigFix Relay Affiliation [ #BigFixRA ]


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07/29/2024 - Kion (cloudtamer) Browse Permissions Update [ #Kion ]

 To learn details about previous changes please go to the News and Updates [ https://cloud.cms.gov/News ] section on cloud.cms.gov and select the topic "Changes" (VPN required).

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08/03/2024 - Enterprise Testing Services Maintenance

*Summary*

In order to keep up to date with the latest versions and security advisories, the CMS Cloud team will be performing maintenance updates on Enterprise Testing tools.

*Actions we are taking*


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Upgrade Selenium Box to the latest version


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Update Selenium Box Hub and Executors with the latest Amazon Linux 2 Gold Image for CMS Cloud.

*When is this happening?*

Start time: Saturday 08/03/2024 at 9:00 a.m. ET

End time: Saturday 08/03/2024 at 11:59 a.m. ET

*Who will be impacted?*

All AWS Commercial and GovCloud customers of Selenium Box.

*What is the impact? *

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



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08/04/2024 - Marketplace SSM Patching - PROD

*Summary*


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Marketplace PROD


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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 Sunday, 08/04/2024 at 12:00 a.m. ET.  The week's patches will impact the PROD* *environment for the affected Marketplace applications noted below. 

*When is this happening?* 

Start Time: Sunday, 08/04/2024 at 12:00 a.m. ET

End Time:  Sunday, 08/04/2024 at 6:00 a.m ET

*Who will be impacted?*

FFM_Opera, FFM MLMS, FFM SERTS-SERVIS, FFM_TWS, VAMS, CRMS, XES - CyberArk, XES - Service Virtualization, MCIM, zONE

*What is the impact? *

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

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*08/04/2024 - BigFix Relay Affiliation - Phase 2*

*Summary*

Grouping of BigFix relays for load balancing.

*Actions we are taking*

As part of system maintenance, the CMS Cloud team will streamline client communication with the BigFix relays.  This maintenance is the second of two phases.

*When is this happening?*

Start Time: Sunday, 08/04/2024 at 10:00 a.m. ET

End Time: Sunday, 08/04/2024 at 5:30 p.m. ET

*Who will be impacted?*

The users will not be impacted by this maintenance.

*What is the impact? *

The maintenance will change the configuration file from manual to automatic relay selection and update relay affiliation settings in a limited subset of the total environment. This change will not cause endpoints to restart, so customers will experience no impact or outage during the change. 

*Benefits of the change*

Upon completion of this change, client communication will have improved performance.

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