Tuesday, November 30, 2010

DocDB outage Wed. Dec. 1

Reminder: There will be a DocDB outage tomorrow morning around 7 a.m. CST. The outage should last no longer than one hour.

OSG 1.2.16 Release Notification

OSG Operations and Integration are pleased to announce the release of OSG version 1.2.16

The following components are affected:

* All OSG software installations


This release incorporates a variety of fixes and changes to various OSG software components. The CA cert scripts have been updated to support a new format for CA certs. The existing CA cert format is still supported but the new format will allow the security group to distribute certs that work with the hash names that OpenSSL 1.0 uses. A summary of the main changes are as follows:

* vdt-ca-manage and vdt-cert-update scripts have been updated to allow the CA certificates to be distributed in the new format
* Bestman and SRM-Client-LBNL have been updated to 2.2.1.3.16
* Bestman2, Bestman-Client, and SRM-Tester3-LBNL have been updated to 2.0.3
* Symlinks to various log files have been added to the $VDT_LOCATION/logs directory
* PHP has been updated to 5.2.14 to fix a small security issue
* UberFTP has been updated to 2.6


Update instructions can be found on the OSG Twiki under the OSG 1.2 update instructions ( https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/ReleaseDocumentation/OSG12UpdateInstructions ).


The release notes for the VDT 2.0.0p23 release underlying this release can be found here ( http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/2.0.0/release-p23.html ).

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Gratia outage 18 November - GOC Ticket # 9603

Fermilab has informed us that ongoing problems have led to a Gratia outage since approximately 3PM Central time. Please note that this will impact Gratia data in the various places where it is used, including the Gratia portions of MyOSG and OSG Display.

There is no estimated time of repair yet, but we will pass along updates as we receive them. Your patience is appreciated.

Please see ticket 9603 at:
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/viewer?id=9603

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Gratia and ReSS Planned Outage - Thursday, November 18, 2010

The Gratia and Resource Selection (ReSS) services operated
at Fermilab will be unavailable from 05:00 CST to 08:00 CST (1100-1400 UTC).
due to a repair of a circuit breaker in Fermilab's facility.
Gratia probes will automatically send all the data to the
Gratia collectors after they come back up so no action on the
part of site administrators is necessary.

Also OSG resources FNAL_FERMIGRID and FNAL_GPGRID_1 will
be unavailable from 04:00 CST until 12:00 CST.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

GOC Service Upgrade - Tuesday, November 23th at 14:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning at Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 at 14:00 UTC. The GOC reserves four hours (14:00 - 18:00 UTC) in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered. We encourage users to test affected services before the production release.
OIM 2.28 (https://oim.grid.iu.edu)
ITB version is now available for testing at https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu

* Changed the logic used to determine which downtimes can be edited by users [OIM-59]
* Added AUP Confirmation check boxes to Resource / SC and VO forms. [OIM-57]
* Updated contact association view to add details for each items as to which contact type users are associated with [OIM-61]
* (Patched Already) Installed capacity report bug fix by Karthik.

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

* Authentication method will be switched from username/password system to x509 system. [OIM-45]
* GOC Service monitor will be installed to monitor conditions of the TWiki service. [MISC-84]


MyOSG 1.29 (https://myosg.grid.iu.edu)

ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu

* Made X509 authentiation more secure by adding check for SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY
* Updated Resource Group Summary/VO Ownership to include error messages from RSV Process consolidator [MYOSG-87]
* Minor CSS changes


Consolidator : RSVProcess 1.11

* Moved various error messages generated by VO ownership XML generator from stdout to part of a generated XML [MYOSG-87]
* Various Minor bug fixes / logging update.


GOC Ticket 1.30 (https://ticket.grid.iu.edu)

ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu

* Made X509 authentiation more secure by adding check for SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY
* (Patched Already) HTML Escaped Assignee ID for GOC Ticket REST interface
* Updated resource specific form to include "Service Type" selector which assigns additional assignees for each service types. [GOCTICKET-79]
* (Patched Already) Fixed the broken formatting for ticket submitter annotation for new ticket.


BDII v5 [Test] (http://is3.grid.iu.edu)

* phpldapadmin was installed to allow user to browse current content of the BDII database. You can try this at http://is-itb.grid.iu.edu/phpldapadmin (login as anonymous) [BDII-14]

GOC Ticket Synchronizer 1.14 (GOC-TX)
For BNL

* Now passing GGUS Type of problem CF for GGUS > FP, and FP > BNL
* Now passing ASSOCIATED_R_NAME for FP > BNL


For VDT

* Added support for ticket exchange with VDT-RT


For GGUS

* Enabled GGUS title update and updated to the latest WSDL which for GGUS accessor
* Updated jssecacerts file for new iwrgustrain.fzk.de HTTP cert
* GGUS2GOC now sets ASSOCIATED_R_ID/NAME (if the selected site is a resource name)

Software Cache (https://software.grid.iu.edu)
ITB version is now available for testing at https://software-itb.grid.iu.edu

* VO Sponsor list is now loaded dynamically from MyOSG

All services

* Install RHEL updates, specifically a critical glibc security update that addresses a vulnerability described here: https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2010-3856.html
* As the glibc update requires a reboot to take effect, we will be installing all other available updates at this time, excluding those known to adversely affect performance


Wednesday, November 3, 2010

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 at 14:00 UTC.

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning at Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 at 14:00 UTC. The GOC reserves four hours (14:00 - 18:00 UTC) in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered.

BDII Service Upgrade Plan

The first step in the BDII Upgrade Plan will be implemented. This will consist of a BDII Version 5 machine being brought up at is3.grid.iu.edu. This instance will NOT be put into DNS Round Robin, but will be a production quality service available for testing of Version 5 of the BDII Software.

The full BDII Upgrade document is available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sYZyZcPtWD3ZXp6-YQF7Wzty_9wJuQRbokDcSWgd7b4/edit?authkey=CJOH65UJ&hl=en#.
RSV-Client (GOC Internal Service)
Fixed an issue where the following probes were not passing HTTP error codes to the probe output.

* apache-responsive-probe
* myosg-rgsummary-probe
* rsv-collector-available-probe

OIM 2.28 (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.

* Changed location selector on Site Editor to a required field [OIM-58]
* Updated installed capacity report scripts to generates HTML formatted report.