Legacy NST IA Lab Allocation¶
This page gives an overview of Legacy NST IA Lab Allocation, describing its current status, where and how it's developed and deployed, and who is responsible for maintaining it.
Service Description¶
This system is responsible for supporting the annual process of allocating students to Laboratory Practical groups for the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part IA (NST IA).
The overall process is overseen by the NST Co-ordinator.
There are three main phases:
- Registration (College staff enter Student choices in September/early October)
- Allocation (Start of Michaelmas term)
- Publishing (Allocation results available online)
During the rest of the year, there is also behind-the-scenes work to manage any proposed changes to the timetable, and to configure the system.
Registration and Publishing are handled by an external-facing web interface.
Allocation is handled internally by UIS staff.
Public-facing information for Information for College Staff.
Service Status¶
Legacy NST IA Lab Allocation is currently live, and plans are underway to replace the system in due course.
Contact¶
Students should contact College and Departmental staff in the first instance.
Staff should contact the NST Co-ordinator.
UIS Staff should refer to Confluence.
The Registration and Publishing servers (see below) are overseen by UIS Servers and Storage Team (infra-sas).
Environments¶
Legacy NST IA Lab Allocation is currently deployed to the following environments:
| Name | URL | Supporting VMs |
|---|---|---|
| REGISTRATION+PUBLISHING: | ||
| Production | https://nstreg.admin.cam.ac.uk/robots.txt Note there are no world-visible UI pages. |
nstreg-live1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk nstreg-stby1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk (Hot standby) |
| Database | webdb3.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk/nstreg_live | |
| Staging | https://nstreg-staging.admin.cam.ac.uk/robots.txt Note there are no world-visible UI pages. |
nstreg-staging1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk |
| Database | webdb3.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk/nstreg_staging | |
| ALLOCATION: | AWS: see Confluence. |
Technologies used¶
The following gives an overview of the technologies Legacy NST IA Lab Allocation is built on.
| Category | Language | Framework(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Server | Java | Spring, Hibernate |
Further Information¶
For further information relevant to UIS staff, please see Confluence.
Service Management and tech lead¶
The service owner for Legacy NST IA Lab Allocation is TBD.
The service manager for Legacy NST IA Lab Allocation is TBD.
The tech lead for Legacy NST IA Lab Allocation is: see Confluence.
The following engineers have operational experience with Legacy NST IA Lab Allocation and are able to respond to support requests or incidents: see Confluence.