New IP address ranges for SUS+ may need changes to local firewall settings
16 June 2022
Migrating SUS+ to a cloud platform means a new range of IP addresses will be used to permit access to the SUS+ extract portal and to the Data Landing Portal. Users may need to change the settings of their local firewall to allow communication with these cloud-based services.
Existing IP addresses recognised by local firewalls will remain in place until SUS+ has moved to the new platform and should remain active.
Both sets of addresses can co-exist and acting on this notice will allow users to seamlessly transfer from the current infrastructure to its cloud-based replacement.
The new IP ranges to allow are:
VPCSubHSCNDmzA = "155.231.64.0/27" # HSCN DMZ Primary Subnet A
VPCSubHSCNDmzB = "155.231.64.32/27" # HSCN DMZ Secondary Subnet B
Successfully pinging any one of the addresses in the range will show that the local firewall allows communication without further work.
All sites should complete this local configuration change by 1 August 2022. Request is to ping the about IP addresses just to test.
Users wishing to participate in testing the cloud-based portals will need to make these changes by 1 July 2022.
Thank you to those users who have offered their help with testing. New volunteers for testing are requested to contact sm.celleight@nhs.net
CDS v6.3 XML schema
15 June 2022
An issue has been identified with the CDS v6.3 XML schema (v6.3.0).
In CDS Types 150 and 160 the Birth Episode structure is incorrectly specified as mandatory in the schema, despite all the data items within this structure being required or optional.
As a result, submissions using the v6.3.0 schema would be rejected unless the Birth Episode structure is included.
A new CDS v6.3 schema (v6.3.1) will be issued shortly which corrects this issue. No other amendments (other than changes to reflect the updated version numbering) are expected to be made.
In the meantime, we would recommend that development work using v6.3.0 of the XML schema should proceed with caution and should take into account the above issue. Once v6.3.1 is issued, v6.3.0 will be removed from TRUD and should no longer be used. A further communication will be issued to confirm this.