Support and Maintenance

The hope is that eMission will find broad usefulness and support humanitarian efforts throughout the world. So how can you get started or solve problems?

Setup

The authors are happy to help with initial setup (although there are very comprehensive instructions included).

Maintainance

We have found maintainance needs to be small.

• Physical infrastructure
  • Server is either a cloud service or a fairly standard desktop-type computer.
  • Clients are phones or other portable devices that users already own and maintain.
• Software
  • All software components are stable and free. Routine security upgrades of computers should be done.
• Data
  • We recommend backups -- which are easy via replication
  • Each portable device also contains a replica of it's mission data
• Users
  • Adding and managing users should be a small part of typical mission support.