King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association et al v. J. Kenneth Blackwell et al

Filing 118

BRIEF on Jurisdiction, Discovery and Evidence Issues Identified by the Court re 113 Order by Plaintiffs Willis Brown, Miles Curtiss, Paul Gregory, King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association, League of Young Voters/Columbus, Ohio Voter Rights Alliance for Democracy, Matthew Segal & Harvey Wasserman. (Attachments: # 1 Appendix Att 1 Architecture Map, # 2 Appendix Att 2 Connell Deposition, # 3 Appendix Att 3 GovTech Voter DB K, # 4 Appendix Att 4 GovTech Mirroring & Website, # 5 Appendix Att 5 SmarTech Proposed Map, # 6 Appendix Att 6 RFK Jr Evidence Summary) (Arnebeck, Clifford) Modified on 7/18/2011 to clarify text (kk2)

SOS Election Production System Configuration for Web Results Entry, EN Staff Results Entry and Web Queries 11/02/04
Legend - Normal Operations. Secondary Operations within SOS facilities. Hot site operations in event of normal and secondary site failures. Hot stand-by with manual cutover requiring 1 - 10 minutes. Fail points with tested fail over plans are numbered.
VJ Masson is primary, Alan Dillman is secondary, for technology issue escalation and resolution decisions. Fail over plans used successfully on election night included 1, 4, 10.

13

Fax
EN Results

SERKDB

14

Compaq 3000R

3
SOS SOCC
EN Results Web Entry
Test & Actual:
51 Counties

SOS SOCC / Borden
EN Results On-line Entry
Test & Actual: 6 EN Staff
88 Counties

Smart Tech
EN Results
On-line Entry

1 at
2314 hrs.

Router

1 at
2314 hrs.

Testing Step 2
Mercury Interactive
Stress Test Results:
10/27 @ 10,000 users:
5 - 40 seconds
SOS requests application changes
to add Presidential Summary
Query, other changes to improve
application response time.

10/28, 10/31 @ 15,000
users: 2 - 9 seconds

Testing Step 1
SOS Staff
SOS Dry Run testing
5 XP Clients running:
MS Web App Test Tool
500 - 5,000 users
to confirm Application
Functionality
Results: No Errors

Web Switch 1

Alteon AD3
Web Switch

8 EN Staff
at SOCC Training Room
EN Results On-line Entry

Jeremy
Bryan, Carolyn
EN Results Web
Help Desk
Entry by Counties
App. & User Support

Moorthy
EN Results On-line
Entry by EN Staff

ERAC
Results
DataBase

Compaq
DL380G2
9i Oracle Rac
Compaq 3000R
9iAS ver1

Wired - 200MB
Actual: 250MB spikes;
170MB - 195MB nominal

10 at 1930 hrs.
SerForm2

4
at 2315 hrs.

Compaq DL580
9iAS ver1

TaskSmart2

Compaq Cache Server
Wired 100MB
Actual: 150MB spikes;
80 - 90MB nominal
CPU: 95 - 99%
HTTP Cache refresh
reset from 2.5 to 15
minutes on both servers
to handle load

8

SERRAC1

SerForm

ProLiant DL 580

Implemented Dual DNS
Smart Tech Wired - 200MB
Actual: 100 - 120 nominal;
Spikes to 150MB

15

A
l
t
e
o
n
A
D
3

IIS .NET

9

Compaq DL380g2
Cluster
SQL server

6

SerEn2

SERRAC2
Compaq
DL380G2
9i Oracle Rac

8a

SERRAC3

ORAC
Results
DataBase

Compaq
DL380G2
9i Oracle Rac

Compaq
DL380g2

Re

pli
ca
tio
ev
n
m ery
inu 3
te
s

SERRAC4

Test & Actual:
CPU 5% nominal

Compaq
DL380G2
9i Oracle Rac

Smart Tech
Results
DataBase

Test & Actual: CPU
5% nominal

Cliff
Solar Winds Network,
Bandwidth Monitor

Cliff
TaskSmart
Peformance Monitor

Bob M, Terry
Spotlight on Web Servers

Oracle Replication
every 3 minutes

SOS SOCC
EN Results Web Query/
Dashboard
Target: 10,000 @
5 seconds
Actual: >250,000 users
2 - 14 seconds
1800 - 0900 hrs

Gov Tech - Mike H.
Results Web Query,
RSS Feed
Application Support

2

SOS Wired - 200MB
Actual: 170 - 190 nominal;
Spikes to 250MB

7

GCR Ltd. - 10 Staff
Results Web Query
(EE, NetScape, Mac)
Response Time Measures

A
l
t
e
o
n
A
D
3

12

Election
Web
Content
DataBase

SerEn1
Compaq
DL380g2

Compaq
Cache Server
Wired 100MB
Actual: 150MB
spikes;
80 - 90MB
nominal
CPU: 95 - 99%

Alteon AD3
Web Switch

Public
Internet

SOS SOCC
RSS Media Feed
AP, UPI, etc.
Tested: 50 users
Actual: 251 users

Web Switch 2

VPN
100 MB

5

TaskSmart1

11

Or
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mi icati
nu on
tes

SOS SOCC / Borden
EN Results
Fax Plan & Actual:
37 Counties

Smart Tech
EN Results Web Qwery
10/29 Test: 15,000
2 - 10 seconds
Actual: >150,000 users
2 - 14 seconds
2314 - 0130 w/
Dual DNS during peak

SerMail

Bob M, Terry
Spotlight on Oracle