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Partner Services (Upstream Services)

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The following table links upstream services with their respective contact lists, maintenance notification streams, and on-call documentation. Missing data indicates gaps in this pipeline.

Shortname

Service Name

Notes

Outage/Maintenance

Mailing Lists

Contacts

On BSR?

Breakers metrics?

Monitoring

Alerting

VFT Docs

Devops Docs

Products

Source Code

Child Dependencies

Appeals

Appeals/Caseflow

 

Error log dashboard (Datadog access required)

 

OCTO slack #appeals-support

✔️ 2019-07-23

✔️ 2019-07-23

CaseflowStatus

Appeals monitors (Datadog access required)

 

 

Appeals/Caseflow

Appeals Status, Claims Status, Lighthouse

Caseflow GitHub repo

BGS, VACO

ArcGIS

ArcGIS

API not dependent on slowness due to ArcGIS as this is used in a sync job

Outage status/maintenance windows


ArcGIS contacts

No

No




ArcGIS.com




BGS

Benefits Gateway Service






No



Benefits Gateway Service

Benefits Gateway Service

Letters, Claims Status

bgs-ext (GitHub)


CorpDB

VA Corporate Database

We don’t connect directly, but we rely on systems that do





n/a








DMDC

Defense Manpower Data Center

Not an API, just a data center





n/a








DS Logon

DoD Self-Service Logon

Most common login type


Status Page is maintained by Boris Ning (VA) not DoD. No longer being used by VA.gov





No (not possible because API calls come from a browser not our servers)




DS Logon

Login



EOAS

Eligibility Office Automation System




EOAS contacts

✔️ 2019-07-23

✔️ 2019-07-23

Preneeds



Pre-need (GitHub)

Pre-Needs Burial (EOAS)

Pre-Needs Burial



EVSS

Enterprise Veterans Self Service Portal Platform


Outage/maintenance windows


Slack channels #evss-dev, #evss-prod

✔️ 2019-07-23


✔️ 2019-07-23

EVSS/Claims
EVSS/Common
EVSS/DisabilityCompensationForm
EVSS/Documents
EVSS/GiBillStatus
EVSS/Letters
EVSS/PCIUAddress
EVSS/ReferenceData

EVSS monitors

(SOCKS proxy required)


EVSS

EVSS

Claims Status, Appeals Status, Letters, Forms, Login


BGS

VBMS

EWIS

Enterprise Web Infrastructure Support

More of a subsystem than a 3rd party service?



EWIS contacts


n/a

EWIS monitors

(SOCKS proxy required)


EWIS (GitHub)

EWIS

Teamsite



GIDS

GIDS

GI Bill Data service




✔️ 2019-07-23

✔️ 2019-07-23

GI




GIDS

GI Bill Comparison Tool

gibct-data-service (GitHub)



Central Mail

Central Mail API (ICHMS)





✔️ 2019-07-23

✔️ 2019-07-23

CentralMail

Central Mail monitors (Datadog access required)

 

VA Platform Benefits Intake API

VA Platform Benefits Intake API

Many Forms, Lighthouse



ID.me

ID.me


Outage/maintenance windows


ID.me contacts


No (not possible because API calls come from a browser not our servers)




ID.me

DS Logon Sign In, ID.me Sign In User Profile



MHV

My HealtheVet

The sign in service is deprecated.
The rest of the Veteran-facing services are on VA.gov. The backend is still being supported.

My Healthe Vet Maintenance Window


MHV contacts

✔️ 2019-07-23

✔️ 2019-07-23

Rx

SM (secure messaging)

MHV monitors

(SOCKS Proxy required)


MHV (GitHub)

My Healthe Vet

Letters, MHV Sign In, Prescriptions, Secure Messaging, Blue Button



MPI

Master PersonIndex

(Formerly Master Patient Index and Master Veteran Index)

Contains mostly Vets, some beneficiaries/dependents.

Scheduled down times


MPI contacts

✔️ 2019-07-23

✔️ 2019-07-23

MVI

MPI monitors

(SOCKS Proxy required)


MPI (GitHub)

Master Person Index (MPI)

Disability Compensation



Pagerduty

Pagerduty






✔️ 2021-10-01

PagerDuty





Downtime Banners, Alerts



Search.gov

Search.gov


Search.gov system status


Search.gov contacts

✔️ 2019-07-23

✔️ 2019-07-23

Search/Results

Search.gov monitors

(SOCKS Proxy required)


Search.gov (GitHub)

Search.gov

Search



VA Profile

VA Profile (formerly
Vet360)

VAProfile aims to be the golden record of contact information within the VA. It does this by coordinating communication and data persistence between the following backends: MVI and CorpDB.


VET360PROD, VET360 PM

VA Profile contacts

✔️ 2019-07-23

✔️ 2019-07-23

VAProfile/Communication
VAProfile/ContactInformation

VA Profile monitors

(SOCKS proxy required)


VA Profile (GitHub)


User Profile, User Model, most forms


MPI, CorpDB

VIC

Veteran ID Card

Unused?





n/a








VIERS

Veteran Information/Eligibility Record Services









VIERS (GitHub)


Veterans ID Card, Claims Status



ADFS

Active Directory Federation Services




ADFS contacts






Active Directory Federation Services




iHub

Integration Hub









iHub (GitHub)

Integration Hub (iHub)




OKTA






✔️ 2019-07-23

✔️ 2019-07-23

OKTA





Lighthouse, not used by VA.gov



PPMS

Provider Profile Management System





✔️ 2019-07-23

✔️ 2019-07-23

PPMS








TIMS

The Imaging Management System

Deprecated? VONAPP?








TIMS (GitHub)

TIMS




VACOLS

Veterans Appeals Control and Locator System














VA Notify

SMS and Email Notification service






No








VBMS

Veterans Benefits Management System











Claim Status, Disability compensation



VEText







✔️ Vetext








VAOS

Veterans Online Application (VOA) Service





✔️ 2019-07-23

✔️ 2019-07-23

VAOS







VAMF, Lighthouse, PPMS, MPI

IAMSSOeOAuth

Identity Access and Management, Single Sign On external, Open Authorization






Yes

IAMSSOeOAuth








EWIS

 Enterprise Web Infrastructure Support Teamsite

Content Management system being replaced






n/a








Lighthouse - Decision Review

Lighthouse Appeals






✔️ DecisionReview





Notice of Disagreement, Higher level review



Central mail, Caseflow,

VHA Access

Health Care Access & Quality Information






✔️ VHA_Access_PWT








HCA

Health Care Application






✔️ HCA








GIBFT

Gi Bill Feedback Tool

In salesforce





✔️ GIBFT








Debt Management Center







✔️ Debts









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