The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (MDPSCS) migrated its OpenFox Message Switching system from the AIX environment to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) virtual machines (VMs). Computer Projects of Illinois (CPI) provided the MDPSCS with an overall structure, schedule, development, testing, and implementation of the necessary products and services based upon the requirements and information supplied by the MDPSCS through documentation and information exchanges.
Scope of Work
CPI migrated all existing OpenFox functionality in the AIX server environments to the new Linux/RHEL VM environments, including the following OpenFox components:
- OpenFox Message Switch
- OpenFox Configurator
- OpenFox Operator Aid (OpAid)
- OpenFox Online Validations (“VLD”)
- OpenFox NextGen Archive (“ARC”)
CPI provided documentation outlining recommended system specifications as a deliverable of the discovery and design phase.
Maryland is CPI’s 28th customer to convert from AIX to Linux.
Benefits of migrating from AIX to Linux include avoiding unsupported OS risks, lowering initial and ongoing expenses, streamlining & automating processes, and enhancing the Agency’s operating system to the industry-preferred RHEL platform. The Maryland OpenFox System is the 28th operating system conversion from AIX to Linux completed by CPI. The conversion of the operating system enables component upgrades for the OpenFox Configurator and Desktop applications, which are already installed on the Maryland OpenFox development system.
