Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 110 - TECHNICAL STANDARDS › Section 112-110-8 - Central computer system; general hardware specifications

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) Each CCS shall
			 be a state-of-the-art, fault-tolerant, redundant, and high-availability system.
			 Any CCS may be configured in a duplex, triplex, or multiredundant
			 configuration. All computer system components and peripheral equipment,
			 including front-end communications processors, system printers, and tape
			 drives, shall be fault-tolerant and redundant and maintain high availability.
			 No performance degradation or loss of system functionality shall occur with the
			 failure of a single system component. The central computer system's storage
			 management solution shall provide fault tolerance and scalability.
(b) The performance of each CCS shall match
			 or exceed the performance of any similar systems installed by North American
			 lotteries or gaming central control systems in casinos in the last three
			 years.
(c) The functions of each
			 CCS shall not interfere with players, employees who require real-time
			 monitoring of security events, cashiers who handle financial transactions of
			 the electronic gaming machines, or attendants who service the EGM.
(d) Performance of each CCS shall not degrade
			 noticeably during ordinary functionality. The CCS shall provide capacity to
			 accommodate EGM populations, play volumes, user sessions, and event recording
			 consistent with all specifications.
(e) All hardware and ancillary peripherals
			 comprising the CCS shall be new equipment that has not previously been used or
			 refurbished.
(f) The supplier of
			 each CCS shall be able to produce system checksums or comparable system file
			 checker reports when requested by Kansas lottery or the commission.
(g) Each supplier of CCS hardware and
			 software shall obtain written approval from the Kansas lottery director or the
			 director's designee before making any enhancement or modification to the
			 operating software.
(h) Each CCS
			 supplier shall provide all hardware, operating system software, third-party
			 software, and application software necessary to operate the CCS.
(i) Each CCS shall be able to operate 24
			 hours a day, seven days a week, with the database up and running. Off-hours
			 backup shall be able to run without shutting down the database. The Kansas
			 lottery shall be able to do a full system backup, which shall include backing
			 up the operating system and any supplier software.
(j) The central processing unit and
			 peripheral devices of each CCS shall employ physical security measures in the
			 form of sealed casings, lockable containment, or any other means of physical
			 security approved by the Kansas lottery and the commission.
(k) Each CCS shall be able to support gaming
			 in at least seven gaming facilities in the state of Kansas.
(l) Each CCS shall have one or more
			 management terminals located at each of the facilities. Management terminals
			 may be accessed only with the permission of the Kansas lottery. A monitoring
			 terminal shall also be located at the Kansas lottery headquarters.
(m) Each CCS shall have two or more
			 monitoring terminals at each facility, as approved by the commission, with at
			 least one terminal to be utilized by the commission. A monitoring terminal
			 shall be located at the commission headquarters.
(n) The responsibility to audit all lottery
			 gaming facility revenues shall rest with the commission. Each CCS supplier
			 shall provide a separate data feed that contains the original accounting data
			 from the EGM before any adjustments and means to reconcile the values or other
			 means of validating any adjustments are made to any data on the system. This
			 separate data feed shall be approved by the commission.