Wednesday, April 21, 2010

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, April 27th at 14:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning at Tuesday, April 27th at 14:00 UTC.

Special Note about short expected intermittent outages
A short intermittent outage of (~5 minutes) is expected for all the services listed below while the GOC adjusts the virtual machine settings one VM host at a time; For example, myosg2 might be down for 5 minutes while myosg1 will still available be for anyone trying to access myosg.grid.iu.edu; Additionally, the GOC reserves four hours (14:00 - 18:00 UTC) in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered. Services impacted include:
  • GOCTicket (Round-robined between two service endpoints)
  • GOC-TX
  • GOC VOMS
  • MyOSG (Round-robined between two service endpoints)
  • OIM
  • OSG Display
  • Secmon RA Agent (For security team)
  • Software Cache (Round-robined between two service endpoints)
  • Twiki


OIM 2.17 (https://oim.grid.iu.edu)

ITB version is now available for testing at https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu; we encourage users to test this service before the production release.

Release Notes:
  • Update MySQL Connector and patched various connection related issues (some of the critical fixes are already installed on the current production instance)
  • Various minor bug fixes 

MyOSG 2.17 (https://myosg.grid.iu.edu)

ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu; we encourage users to test this service before the production release.

Release Notes:
  • Added status change XML that can be optionally pulled from RGstatusHistory XML
  • Updated logic on RSV status map to remove resource groups that do not have any resources reporting RSV status data
  • RSV status map will now honer disabled field on site table
  • Added HEPSPEC XML tag to misccpuinfo per Brian's request
  • Under Resource Group / GIP validation status page
  • Updated the way LDIF URLs to match resource name, and not resource_group name; Placed LDIF URL links under resource
    • Added "Show LDIF URLs" check box under "Show Resource" as parent item.
    • Updated HTML/XML views so that LDIF URLs are now displayed under each resource
  • Various other minor bug fixes

GOC-TX Ticket Exchange/Sync System 1.4 (tx.grid.iu.edu)

The ITB TX server has been functioning properly.

Release Notes:
  • Improved the way ticket origin note was handled
  • Added ticket origin note for GGUS / RT tickets
  • Updated ticket origin information on custom field for RT
Issues patched on production

  • Patched the GGUS null values to be handled elegantly
  • Fixed the duplicate solution issue with GGUS by using history information for detailed solution just as it does for other diaries
GOC Ticket 1.17 (https://ticket.grid.iu.edu)

ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu; we encourage users to test this service before the production release.

Release Notes:
  • Added capability for all registered OIM users to update CC list on the ticket.
  • Fixed the issue when guest user try to submit a form, the full name will be reset to "Guest".
  • Added email mailto link for email address for OIM users (previously displayed as static text)
  • Adjusted layout of ticket viewer for OIM users
  • (For Ticket Editors ONLY) Added notification suppression check boxes
  • Upgraded Zend Framework
  • Various minor bug fixes
Issues patched on production
  • Fixed the issue where next assignee rule didn't honer local time zone
  • Fixed the issue where resource issue was not routed to a correct TX target
  • Patched the issue when guest user try to submit a form, the full name will be reset to "Guest".