{"id":7224,"date":"2018-02-27T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=7224"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:02","slug":"its-retires-uniqname-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/27\/its-retires-uniqname-service\/","title":{"rendered":"ITS retires its oldest legacy system, the Uniqname Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7299\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uniqname-1.jpg\" alt=\"screenshot of uniqname creation interface\" width=\"600\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uniqname-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uniqname-1-125x87.jpg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uniqname-1-286x200.jpg 286w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uniqname-1-200x140.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uniqname-1-60x42.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In early February, ITS retired its oldest running production system\u2014the Uniqname Service (UNS). Implemented in 1992, UNS was running on outdated hardware with an old homegrown \u201cUMCE Linux\u201d operating system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to high risk, the system had not been shut down or upgraded since 2012. \u201cWe were concerned about the fragility and technical debt associated with the homegrown UNS system,\u201d says Vasilios Pliakas, systems and middleware programming manager for ITS Infrastructure Service. \u201cIn addition, all of the original system engineers were no longer with the university.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Pliakas, the UNS team initially planned to move the system to a virtual machine in early 2017. After six months of unsuccessfully trying to migrate the outdated system, they realized they would need to build a new one. Technical experts from the Identity and Access Management (IAM) teams wrote software within MCommunity to handle uniqname creation, modification, and deactivation, as well as a user-friendly online interface for ITS Service Center staff who support these activities on behalf of faculty, staff, and students. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UNS was the second to last ITS system running in the Arbor Lakes Building 3 Data Center (ALDC3), after most other ITS systems relocated to the Michigan Academic Computing Center (MACC) in 2017. The new service is now running on a current operating system, on software that can be easily maintained, monitored, and upgraded. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe new UNS service will be more reliable and robust, which will provide a better overall experience for campus users,\u201d says Pliakas. He adds that the change also reduces the number of systems ITS Service Center staff need to use for support, eliminates the technical debt accrued over many years for IAM systems, and ensures that the university\u2019s IAM ecosystem no longer depends on a legacy system and the ALDC3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Special thanks and kudos to the following teams for their contributions to the project:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IAM Systems Middleware Operations Team<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IAM Line-of-Business Team<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ITS Storage Team<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ITS Service Center<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early February, ITS retired its oldest running production system\u2014the Uniqname Service (UNS). Implemented in 1992, UNS was running on outdated hardware with an old homegrown \u201cUMCE Linux\u201d operating system. Due to high risk, the system had not been shut down or upgraded since 2012. \u201cWe were concerned about the fragility and technical debt associated with the homegrown\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/27\/its-retires-uniqname-service\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[98,271,431],"class_list":["post-7224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-services","category-features","tag-infrastructure","tag-mcommunity","tag-uniqname"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uniqname-1.jpg",600,419,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uniqname-1-125x87.jpg",125,87,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uniqname-1-286x200.jpg",286,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uniqname-1.jpg",600,419,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uniqname-1.jpg",600,419,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uniqname-1.jpg",600,419,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uniqname-1.jpg",600,419,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uniqname-1-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uniqname-1-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uniqname-1-600x300.jpg",600,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uniqname-1.jpg",600,419,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/uniqname-1.jpg",358,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Patty Giorgio, ITS Communications","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/pgiorgio\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"In early February, ITS retired its oldest running production system\u2014the Uniqname Service (UNS). Implemented in 1992, UNS was running on outdated hardware with an old homegrown \u201cUMCE Linux\u201d operating system. Due to high risk, the system had not been shut down or upgraded since 2012. \u201cWe were concerned about the fragility and technical debt associated&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7408,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions\/7408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}