Customer: Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

Programme: Pléiades

Supply Chain: CNES > CS Group SPACE

Context

CS Group responsabilities for Pléiades ground support are as follows:

• Maintenance, operational support, 4 engineers team

The features are as follows:

• Installation and configuration of software versions ; hardware checks and inventory ; first-level failure investigation ; hardware replacement
• Support to board, mission and orbitography teams
• Participation to coordination meetings ; technical issues management
• Bugs fixing ; Specification improvements ; SDGC components technical follow-up
• SDGC Software Component Installations and Configurations
• Operational procedures writing and Operations support

Project implementation

The project objectives are as follows:

• Ground operation to maintain routine operational monitoring activities
• Technical follow-up of some components of the SDGC
• Implementation and monitoring of exceptional operations
• Preparation and implementation of tests

The processes for carrying out the project are:

• Floor support in delegation of tasks

Technical characteristics

The solution key points are as follows:

• Multi component architecture and platforms
• Sensitive context (defense)
• Maintenance under operational conditions
• Interface with other CNES services

The main technologies used in this project are:

Domain	Technology(ies)
Hardware environment(s)	IBM PC servers,PC
Operating System(s)	Redhat Linux Enterprise 5, Windows
Programming language(s)	C ++, scripts
Interoperability (protocols, format, APIs)	ntp, XML, ACL, syslogNG, kde
Production software (IDE, DEVOPS etc.)	Kerberos, LDAP, QT, Nagios, Apache, dns, lprNG, TiNa, auditd, Tripwire, SAN