Tuesday, November 24, 2009

GOC Service Update

The GOC has upgraded the OIM, MyOSG, and Ticket services successfully this morning.

The change log is attached.

OIM 2.10 (oim-itb.grid.iu.edu)

Upgraded DivRep framework which includes various bug fixes such as

Fixed carriage return character issue with DivRepFormElement for IE
Added new DivRep common controls.
Added new parameter to divrep() function to accept action override
(Patch) set minimum window width

MyOSG 1.11 (myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu)

Moved rsvprocess to a new dedicated VMware instance.
Added Google Wave Widget URL
Added Google Calendar subscription option for RG downtime
Simplified CSS dependencies for mobile content
Fixed the RSV status map detail overflow issue.
(Patch) set minimum window width

Ticket 1.10 (ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu)

Added ability to log user access to GOC
Set shorter network timeout for FP call in order to detect n/w issue and present more user friendly error message.
Made GOC notification form's RSS check box to be checked by default.
(Patch) set minimum window width

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

OSG 1.2.4 Release Announcement

OSG Operations and Integration are pleased to announce the release of OSG version 1.2.4. This update affects all CE installations and OSG based installs of XRootd, XRootdFS, Bestman, XRootd-GridFTP, and GridFTP, GUMS, and VOMS.

This update adds a RSV probe to monitor the status of Gratia probes as well as the ability to specify which ReSS, BDII, or Gratia servers a CE should send information to. Other changes include support for configuring standalone instances of several storage components (xrootd, xrootdfs, bestman, xrootd-gridftp, and gridftp). This allows configure-osg to be used to configure these components.

Sites not planning on using the RSV gratia probes or not interested in configuring the storage components mentioned above can skip this update.

The following packages have been updated:

* OSG-RSV
* osg-config
* osg-version
* Xrootd
* XrootdFS
* Xrootd-GridFTP
* Tomcat
* VOMS Admin
* GUMS
* EDG-Make-Gridmap

The following packages have been added to the production cache:

* GridFTP

Complete update instructions can be found at https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/ReleaseDocumentation/OSG124UpdateInstructions

GOC Service Update 11-24-2009

The GOC will upgrade the OIM, MyOSG, and Ticket services beginning at Tuesday, November 24th at 14:00 UTC. No service outages are expected during this upgrade. ITB versions are now available for testing at myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu, ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu, and oim-itb.grid.iu.edu and we encourage users to test these services before the release. Attached is a change log.


OIM 2.10 (oim-itb.grid.iu.edu)

Upgraded DivRep framework which includes various bug fixes such as

Fixed carriage return character issue with DivRepFormElement for IE
Added new DivRep common controls.
Added new parameter to divrep() function to accept action override
(Patch) set minimum window width

MyOSG 1.11 (myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu)

Moved rsvprocess to a new dedicated VMware instance.
Added Google Wave Widget URL
Added Google Calendar subscription option for RG downtime
Simplified CSS dependencies for mobile content
Fixed the RSV status map detail overflow issue.
(Patch) set minimum window width

Ticket 1.10 (ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu)

Added ability to log user access to GOC
Set shorter network timeout for FP call in order to detect n/w issue and present more user friendly error message.
Made GOC notification form's RSS check box to be checked by default.
(Patch) set minimum window width

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Indianapolis BDII server maintenance (Nov 4th and 5th 2009)

On Nov 4th 2009, 19:00 UTC, the GOC will be removing the Indianapolis-based BDII server (is2.grid.iu.edu) off of round-robin (is.grid.iu.edu) to perform a network re-configuration; the Bloomington based BDII server (is1.grid.iu.edu) will continue to serve BDII users.

On Nov 5th 2009, 21:00 UTC, the GOC will be restore is2.grid.iu.edu back into round-robin (is.grid.iu.edu), assuming the above maintenance goes as planned.

No user-level outage is expected.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Update: OSG GOC Services experiencing intermittent difficulties.

The OSG GOC was experiencing intermittent difficulties with services including, but not limited to, BDII, GOCTicket, OIM, MyOSG and the OSG TWiki.

The network outage affected the IUPUI campus as noted here:

http://itnotices.iu.edu/notice.aspx?id=13611

Most services returned to availability shortly after 17:00 Eastern Time, while GOCTicket returned to service at a later time as it waited for underlying systems to return to the network.

Any Bloomington-based services were still available during this time.

We apologize for any inconvenience this caused.

Notification for Tuesday November 10th Service Maintenances

The GOC will upgrade the MyOSG, Ticket, and OIM services beginning at
Tuesday, November 10th at 14:00 UTC. No service outages are expected
during this upgrade. ITB versions are now available for testing at
myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu, ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu, and oim-itb.grid.iu.edu
and we encourage users to test these services before the release.
Attached is a change log.

MyOSG 1.10

Important changes:
Updated the all XML exports to include XSD schema location.
Updated the home page.
Changed the past downtime check box to a select box in order to allow
user select the range of past downtime to display. (Added a check to
port old query to interpret as show all downtime)

Minor changes:
Patched some internal warnings messages
Updated the top banner
Added check to make sure XML content exists when user request CSV (CSV
depends on XML)

Ticket 1.9

Important changes:
(no important changes)

Minor changes:
Updated the top banner

OIM 2.9

Important changes:
Added capability to set confirmation dates for VO, SC, and Resource
similar to Contact confirmation.
Made the contact association information in the contact list to be
only available for GOC.
Added user's associated contact information on home page
Updated the divrep.jar to include the latest bug fixes for UTF-8
handling.
Added Ruth to the CC-list for all FP registration tickets (Resource,
VO, and SC)
Fixed various unicode handling issues.

Minor changes:
Added link to OIM hierarchy presentation on the OIM hompage.
Updated the top banner

Bug Fixes (already applied to current production):
Fixed for the downtime editor's oddness where minute won't be reset.
Updated Footprints registration message template
Moved the htmlview template to the right location

Monday, November 2, 2009

GOC Maintenance (Bloomington)

The GOC will be performing emergency maintenance on the secondary power
supply to our machine rack in Bloomington at 8AM (15:00 UTC) on Tuesday,
November 3rd.

No GOC service -- including BDII, MyOSG, and the Software Cache that are
hosted jointly in Indianapolis -- are expected to be affected by this
maintenance.