June 30 Maintenance on OIM, RSV, TWiki and Other GOC Production Services

The OSG GOC has completed their maintenance and all systems are functioning as expected.

Some users may experience outages due to DNS propagation not having yet happened.

Also, you may try clearing your local DNS Cache in one of the methods listed here:

http://www.techiecorner.com/35/how-to-flush-dns-cache-in-linux-windows-mac/

June 30 Maintenance on OIM, RSV, TWiki and Other GOC Production Services

On June 30th 2009 19:00-20:00 UTC the OSG Operations Group will be performing maintenance on the following production services:

oim.grid.iu.edu
rsv.grid.iu.edu
scan.grid.iu.edu
software.grid.iu.edu
ticket.grid.iu.edu
twiki.grid.iu.edu
voms.grid.iu.edu
vors.grid.iu.edu

The real outages are expected to last a few minutes but the GOC reserves the entire hour for maintenance. We will let you know when the maintenance is complete.

MyOSG 1.4.1 released

MyOSG 1.4.1 release includes

• Standardized the header / footer style with other GOC application
• Made ITB part of GIP information optional on GIP validation page
• Improved error handling due to catastrophic failures
• Decommissioned long deprecated /history page (replaced by http://myosg.grid.iu.edu/wizardstatushistory)
• Fixed the current downtime issue where it was not displaying all of current downtimes.
• Made page style to be more consistent at http://myosg.grid.iu.edu/vosummary?datasource=summary&all_vos=on&active_value=1

If you need need any new features in MyOSG, then please open a feature request at http://code.google.com/p/osggoc/issues/entry

Tomcat Restart Request for Affected Resources

Many resources are not reporting to ReSS after it was recently moved to a new IP address. Please go to http://osg-ress-1.fnal.gov:8080/ReSS/ReSS-prd-History.html to determine if your resource was affected. The issue can be resolved by restarting tomcat.

VDT 1.10.1y released

Hi,

The release instructions follow:

The VDT team has released an update to VDT 1.10.1.

This release includes:
- a security update for Java

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- bug fix updates for Bestman, the SRM Fermi client, the Generic
Information Provider (GIP), and RSV.
- an update to the PPDG cert scripts

Further details and instructions to update the affected VDT packages
are located here:
http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/1.10.1/release-y.html

Once again, the new VDT Updater can be used to update your software.
See the URL above for more information.

After updating the VDT packages on your installation, you will need to
run:

pacman -update osg-version

in order to update your osg-version number.

ReSS Collector Maintenance 6-18-2009

The OSG production collector osg-ress-1.fnal.gov will change ip numbers on 6/18/2009. There will probably be some delay for the DNS to propagate to the rest of the network. Also anyone running anything less than vdt-1.10.1v will have to restart their tomcat so that the correct osg-ress-1 ip is used.

Reference:
http://myosg.grid.iu.edu/wizarddowntime/index?datasource=downtime&summary_attrs_showservice=on&summary_attrs_showrsvstatus=on&summary_attrs_showfqdn=on&gip_status_attrs_showtestresults=on&gip_status_attrs_showfqdn=on&account_type=cumulative_hours&ce_account_type=gip_vo&se_account_type=vo_transfer_volume&start_type=7daysago&start_date=06%2F16%2F2009&end_type=now&end_date=06%2F16%2F2009&r=on&r _238=on&gridtype=on&gridtype_1=on&active_value=1&disable_value=1

SWITCH SLCS CA Service downtime June 21

Due to a power upgrade the SWITCH SLCS service will be in downtime next
Sunday June the 21st from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. CET: during this time the
service as a whole will not be available and therefore the root and
online CAs CRLs will also not be downloadable.

The service will be resumed immediately afterwards.

MyOSG 1.4 released!

The GOC is pleased to announce the release of MyOSG 1.4 -- this release includes fixes and content in the support center / VO and miscellaneous sections.

Here is a detailed list of changes:

Resource section

• Resource to display list is more user friendly - users do not have to uncheck "All Resource" button to select another option

Resource Summary (WizardSummary)

• Presents FQDN aliases if applicable for any resource, if "Show FQDN" checkbox is checked

• In WLCG section, fixed LDAP URI issue to use resource group name instead of resource name

Status Map:

• Using different map type; and defaults to zoom level of continental U.S

• User's pan/zoom location is embedded in URL, and can be bookmarked or added to iGoogle/Netvibes

• Added additional filters/selectors including default "production resource group" filter

Support Center and VO sections

• Added contact information.

• Secure web URL provides email and phone number to authorized personnel.

Resource RSV Current Status

• Improved the style on expired / not reported metrics

Miscellaneous section:

• Added a resource-service count option in "Information to Display"

Home page

• Updated the content of the home page. Quick links give results for all production resources; VO-user use-case includes environment variables.

RSV Brief Outage

The production RSV collector (rsv.grid.iu.edu) experienced a brief service outage shortly before 3pm EDT today. Service has now been restored. No RSV records are expected to be lost -- the RSV clients will resend the records when the server comes back up, and RSV-SAM transport will also catch up by itself.

Security updates: VDT 1.10.1x and 2.0.0p2

The VDT team announces the immediate availability of VDT 1.10.1x and 2.0.0p2, which contain an important security update to Glexec. You can read about the VDT updates and the security advisory on these pages:

http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/1.10.1/release-x.html
http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/2.0.0/release-p2.html
http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/advisories/glexec-0.5.36.html

We recommend updating installations of VDT 1.10.1 and 2.0.0 right away.

VDT 1.10.1w released

The VDT team has released an update to VDT 1.10.1.

This release includes:
- a security update for Java
- bug fix updates for Bestman, the SRM Fermi client, the Generic
Information Provider, and RSV
- an update to the PPDG cert scripts

Further details and instructions to update are located here:
http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/1.10.1/release-w.html

Once again, the new VDT Updater can be used to update your software.
See the URL above for more information.

OSG CA distribution v1.7 Released

The OSG security team has released an update to the OSG CA package. This update should be picked up by vdt-ca-update or 'yum update', assuming you are using one of those mechanisms to receive CA certificate updates from the GOC.

References for OSG CA package distribution:
http://software.grid.iu.edu/pacman/cadist/
http://yum.grid.iu.edu/
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Security/CADistribution

MyOSG 1.3 Released

MyOSG 1.3a has been released.

Following are the changes made.

- Display version number at the bottom of MyOSG page.
- Fixed bug caused by adding new authentication types.
- Added associated services check box under Misc / RSV Metric page.
- Improved Resource / Downtime page and added optional "past downtime"
information.
- Added missing field for Resource / Downtime XML page.
- Added class / severity / DN fields for Resource / Downtime page.
- Added VO parent information on VO / Summary page.
- Added label for non-critical services on Misc / RSV Metric page