# Operations Guide

This manual is for IT support staff and operations personnel responsible for deploying, monitoring, and maintaining the AI-enabled Clinical Decision Support System. Use it during initial setup, routine health checks, or when investigating system incidents.

## Overview

This section describes the system's deployment topology, network requirements (5G or equivalent), and key operational boundaries such as the 48-hour audit log retention cycle and the 5-concurrent-session cap.

## Prerequisites

This section covers what operations staff need before deployment: server access, network infrastructure confirmation, and environment configuration details.

## Core procedures

This section holds the numbered procedures ops staff perform most often: system startup and shutdown, monitoring session capacity, verifying audit log purge cycles, and responding to connectivity incidents.

## Reference

This section documents environment variables, configuration file locations, monitoring endpoints, and log formats.

## Troubleshooting

This section covers operational failure scenarios: network degradation, session capacity limits reached, and audit log purge failures.

## Changelog

This section records infrastructure changes, deployment updates, and operational procedure revisions.