| XDC Operations Tasks (rev. 2010-05-04) | ||||
| Task Descriptions | Who | Effort [FTE-days] | Priority | Comments |
| Planning and coordination | Rick and Alice | 96 | high | |
| Documentation, presentations reports | All | 72 | high | |
| Field Campaign (IOP) final data processing: Verify, document, and move data to iop.archive.arm.gov | Alice, Rick, Kathy | 120 | high | Supported by Engineering (Metadata&IOP support) |
| Daily review of logs of automated collections and ingests | Lynn | 48 | high | |
| Interface with ARM participants and external data sources | All | 60 | high | |
| Obtain missing data or determine why lost | Lynn, Alice, Laurie | 42 | high | |
| Fix problems with ingests (shared with Engineering) | Laurie, Lynn, Alice, Min, Alison | ? | high | |
| Find sources for newly identified data needs | Rick, Alice | 12 | med | Attend WG meetings to learn what is needed, typically charged to Engineering |
| Create and distribute notification and release forms for external data streams (with Engineering) | Lynn, Laurie, Alice, Rick | 12 | high | |
| Perform necessary reprocessing or back processing | Lynn, Laurie, and Alice | 96 | high | Reprocessing on reproc2.archive or c1.xdc mostly performed by Lynn for expediency. |
| Keep system patches up-to-date | Bill, Rick | 6 | high | |
| Sysadmin (system configuration, user acct. management, network access control) | Bill, Rick | 18 | med | |
| DB admin | Lynn | 18 | med | |
| Web admin | Min, Rick | 18 | high | supported in part by engineering Web Apps task |
| Backups | Bill, Alison | 12 | high | |
| Upgrade COTS software (Sybase, IDL, Terascan, Legato Networker, Google Search Appliance, Sun Compilers, ARC/INFO, Erdas Imagine) as required | Alice, Alison, Laurie | 18 | low | license costs are split between operations and engineering, they should probably ALL be operations, because even if they are development tools (IDL, compilers) providing and maintaining a development environment should be an operations task |
| Upgrade in-house software (Zebra, BW, site transfer) as required | Laurie and Rick | 24 | med | |
| File DQRs and DQPRs on problems with data streams and missing data | All | 6 | high | |
| Database/Web support for ARM operations (IMMS, DQPR, SARS...) | Kathy,Min | 97 | high | |
| Create Monthly Statistics: Data Transfer, Web, database | Lynn, Alison, Kathy,Min | |||
| Collect NCDC and NWS data (quarterly) | Alice | 6 | med | |
| CSPHOT and SuomiNet Monitoring | Laurie, Lynn, Rick | 65 | high |