# CSD-RnD-and-Ops-discussion-topics_713175513
## Introduction

This document tracks down the requests from one side to the other, on SMAX, Aviator and DCA farms: upgrades, improvements, infrastructure changes etc.

## Roles

| Role | Label |
| --- | --- |
| Cloud Service PMO | CLOUD PMO |
| Cloud DevOps Engineer | CLOUD OPS |
| Core CPE Brindusa K. | CORE CPE |
| PPM Dean Clayton | PPM |
| Aviator PMO | AV. PMO |
| Aviator RnD Engineer | AV. RND |
| SMAX PMO | SMAX PMO |
| ESM PM/RnD | ESM PRND |
| UCMDB PM/RnD | UCMDB PRND |
| OO PM/RnD | OO PRND |
| OP PM/RnD | OP PRND |
| DCA PM/RnD |  |
| Automation Center RnD |  |

## SMAX, Aviator and DCA farms here

## Questions, requests, opportunities, micro-projects between SMAX, Aviator and DCA Ops and RnD teams

## Format (The rules of the game)

#  
Topic title: Title of the topic  
Details: As many tracking details as possible including at least: what is the current status, what is the next step, what are dependencies, who is the owner of this thread  
Requested by: What team initiated it  
Requested to: Who is the final answer being awaited from  
Pending: Who is this topic pending on at the moment  

Aviator

|  | Status | Topic title | Details | Requested by | Requested to | Pending | Replies |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | ONGOING | Staging documentation on Aviator upgrade | Asked via email thread "Aviator 25.3 post-upgrade discussion", [Adina Lehene](https://confluence.opentext.com/display/~alehene) | CLOUD OPS | AV. RND | AV. PMO or AV. RND |  |
| 2 | ONGOING | Aviator on EKS 1.32 compatibility and upgrade | Asked via email thread "AWS EKS 1.32 on Aviator", [Adina Lehene](https://confluence.opentext.com/display/~alehene) | CLOUD OPS | AV. RND | AV. PMO or AV. RND | Ops to start planning along with AL2023 AMI |
| 3 | ONGOING | Amazon Linux 2023 CCOE AMI compatibility and upgrade | Asked via email thread "Aviator change AMI to Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) by November 26, 2025", [Adina Lehene](https://confluence.opentext.com/display/~alehene) | CLOUD OPS | AV. RND | AV. PMO or AV. RND~~ 19 Sep 2025 | R&D certified AL2023 CCoE AMI. Ops need to adopt along with EKS 1.32 upgrade and start testing in September |
| 4 | ONGOING | Switch gp2 to gp3 on Aviator farm(s) | Asked via email thread "EU30-PROD Aviator farm needs more disk space and more nodes (additional costs)" [Adina Lehene](https://confluence.opentext.com/display/~alehene) | CLOUD OPS | PPM | CORE CPE or PPM | R&D is testing on their Staging environment.  Saravanan will update soon. |
| 5 | ONGOING | New upcoming Aviator farms requests | Asked via email thread "Aviator farms of OSM", [Adina Lehene](https://confluence.opentext.com/display/~alehene)   Follow-up: Tuesday 05 Aug 2025 | CLOUD OPS | PPM | AV. PMO or AV. RND and PPM | Still in discussion with management level for CSR |
| 6 | ONGOING | EU30 farm disk size issue | Asked via email thread "EU30-PROD Aviator farm needs more disk space and more nodes (additional costs)" [Adina Lehene](https://confluence.opentext.com/display/~alehene) | CLOUD OPS | PPM | CORE CPE or PPM | This can be executed along with gp2 to gp3 conversion |
| 7 | ONGOING | EU32-PROD replicated env. into RnD env. | Driving the email thread "EU30 and EU32 Aviator farm CI's"   Asked verbally in a CSD team meeting via Sajith Kumar. CLOUD OPS to prepare a comparison between EU30 and EU32, [DILIP BEHERA](https://confluence.opentext.com/display/~dbehera2) and [Adina Lehene](https://confluence.opentext.com/display/~alehene) | AV. RND | CLOUD OPS | CLOUD OPS | Comparison document is ready and shared with R&D |
| 8 | ANSWERED | Aviator 25.3.1 and 25.3.2 compatibility with SMAX inquires | Asked via email thread "EU30-Aviator upgrade to 25.3 - Language Models issue 22/07/2025", [DILIP BEHERA](https://confluence.opentext.com/display/~dbehera2) and [Adina Lehene](https://confluence.opentext.com/display/~alehene) | CLOUD OPS | AV. RND | AV. RND | 1\. If Aviator-SMAX will work if: SMAX on 25.2.2 and some\* HF’s, while Aviator on 25.3.1?   **Tanuj: Yes, it should work this combination and also SMAX+ Aviator on 25.3.1 should work.**  2\. If Aviator-SMAX will work if: SMAX on 25.2.2 and some\* HF’s, while Aviator on 25.3.2? **Tanuj: Yes, it should work this combination as this is a patch.**  3\. For an Aviator farm on version 25.3, in order to upgrade it to 25.3.2, is the 25.3.1 patch strictly necessary to get applied on it or 25.3.1 may be skipped? **Tanuj: NO, We have GEMINI feature introduced on 25.3.1,so please upgrade to 25.3.1 then to 25.3.2 and that's the plan we agree upon for all the farms as 25.3.2 will still take time.** |
| 9 | ONGOING | All Aviator farms | Asked via email thread "Identifying relevant logs for Aviator module investigation workflow", [Adina Lehene](https://confluence.opentext.com/display/~alehene) and [DILIP BEHERA](https://confluence.opentext.com/display/~dbehera2) | AV. RND | CLOUD OPS | AV. RND |  |

  
SMAX

|  | Status | Topic title | Details | Requested by | Requested to | Pending | Replies |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | ONGOING | X4X not provisioning trial tenants after ESM upgrade on US2-PROD | Email thread: "ESM Trial requests - US2-PROD", [Adina Lehene](https://confluence.opentext.com/display/~alehene) | CLOUD OPS | CLOUD OPS Shanghai | CLOUD OPS Shanghai |  |
| 2 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

  
DCA

|  | Status | Topic title | Details | Requested by | Requested to | Pending | Replies |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | ONGOING | DCA farms upgrading ITOM and EKS vers. | Asked via email thread "DCA SaaS", [Adina Lehene](https://confluence.opentext.com/display/~alehene) | CLOUD OPS |  |  |  |
| 2 | DONE | One DCA farm decommissioning | Discussed in the meeting "SA Reporting SaaS account - Migration to Operations Platform Multitenant", [Sajith Kumar A R](https://confluence.opentext.com/display/~ssajith) and [Adina Lehene](https://confluence.opentext.com/display/~alehene) | CLOUD OPS |  |  | Thread closed. |
| 3 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

Automation Center (AC)

|  | Status | Topic title | Details | Requested by | Requested to | Pending | Replies |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | ONGOING | Enabling AC on a SMAX tenant on EU28 | Email thread: "Automation Center on SMAX farms", [Adina Lehene](https://confluence.opentext.com/display/~alehene) | CLOUD OPS |  | [Vunnava Tanujaraja](https://confluence.opentext.com/display/~tvunnava) |  |
| 2 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
