Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Issue Date: November 14, 2014

Program Area: Distributed Data Collection (DDC) for RA Including HCRP/EDGE Server

Question: How does the On-Premise EDGE server provisioning process differ from the Amazon EDGE server provisioning process?

Answer: For Amazon EDGE servers, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will initiate an automated provisioning process to install the EDGE server software stack and configure the server. For On-Premise servers, issuers will initiate a manual provisioning process. Prior to provisioning, issuers will load Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), JAVA and MySQL. Following EDGE server registration, On-Premise issuers will run a provisioning script provided by CMS to set-up the servers. For more information about the differences between the On-Premise and the Amazon EDGE provisioning processes, please refer to the On-Premise and the Amazon EDGE Provisioning Job Aids posted in the REGTAP Library (www.regtap.info).

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