Tuesday, February 22, 2011

OSG CA Distribution Release 1.17

A new release of the CA certificates is available at
http://software.grid.iu.edu/pacman/cadist/.

This is version 1.17 and uses IGTF 1.38 as the basis.


Changes to the OSG certificates package:

===== Version 1.17 ==============
Built 7 Feb 2011
IGTF 1.38 - current hash format (openssl 0.9x)

Changes from by IGTF
* Updated meta-data info file for SRCE (HR)
* Updated KEK CA root (617ff41b) with extended life time (JP)
* Updated contact email address for ArmeSFo (AM)
* Extended allowed namespace and new URL for SEE-GRID CA as EGI catch-all (EU)
* Extended allowed namespace for NAREGI CA (JP)
* Added accredited CILogin MICS CA (US)
* Extended life time for NCSA CACL (MICS) CA (US)
* Extended life time for NCSA MyProxy (SLCS) CA (US)
* Extended life time for NorduGrid CA (DK,NO,SE,FI,SI)
* Corrected namespaces file for TCS eScience Personal (EU)

Additional OSG Changes:
None

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

OSG 1.2.18 Release Notification

OSG Operations and Integration are pleased to announce the release of OSG version 1.2.18

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OSG 1.2.18 Update Notification
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Date: February 16, 2011

Affected Components

The following components are affected:

* All RSV installations

Summary

This release contains the following updates:

* RSV 3.3.6 which fixes two bugs:
* A reporting bug that prevents WLCG availability from being reported to the GOC correctly
* A bug that prevents successfully sent reports from being deleted correctly and results in those records accumulating on the system

This release fixes all the RSV bugs that were present in the previous release. However, in our post-release testing, we found a new bug that in some rare circumstances could prevent WLCG availability statistics from being reported. While this is an unlikely occurrence, we recommend that sites which depend on WLCG availability reporting should hold off to the next release that will fix this bug. We believe this bug fix can be released within a week.

Update Instructions
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 ).

Additional Information
The release notes for the VDT 2.0.0p25 release underlying this release can be found here ( http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/2.0.0/release-p25.html ).

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, February 22th at 14:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning at Tuesday, February 22th, 2010 at 14:00 UTC. The GOC reserves eight hours (14:00 - 22:00 UTC) in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered. We encourage users to test affected services before the production release.
OIM 2.31 (https://oim.grid.iu.edu)

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

(patched) Fixed a bug that prevents resource registration ticket to be created if support center for the resource can not be found (soap element count for assignee field issue)
Improved the way error log was generated during footprint ticket generation.

GOC Ticket 1.33 (https://ticket.grid.iu.edu)

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

Updated ticket title style for simple ticket updater.
Added a prompt to ask user if user really wants to submit a form without entering any update text.
Changed wording on VO form
(patched) Combined first and last name fields on ticket viewer / editor to be consistent with how name field is handled internally.
(patched) Fixed a bug on custom form (for admin only) error messages
TWiki (http://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.

TWiki's X509 authentication plugin has been replaced by GOC's custom made User authentication module which uses Apache's native x509 feature, and direct access to OIM authe/autho tables. This update will fix FNAL Certificate issue and other issues that have been discovered recently.
Fixed the MIME issue with various MS. Office documents on IE.
Setup forwarding from http to https (like it used to)

MyOSG 1.31 (https://myosg.grid.iu.edu)

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

Added a link to user feedback form.
Made OpenTickets model more error resistant (in case of GOC Ticket connectivity issue)
(patched) Added missing CSS images

OSG Display (http://display.grid.iu.edu)

Modified SQL queries used for Gratia DB which might be causing performance issue (this update has not be finalized yet, and it is experimental until proven effective)

Operating System updates
RHEL operating system patches will be applied to bring systems up to date. A reboot will be required resulting in brief outages during the maintenance period.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Bug in OSG 1.2.17: Please don't update

Hello everyone,

Today we discovered a bug in the most recent OSG software release (1.2.17, released on Monday, February 7th) that affects WLCG availability reporting for sites. Sites may go into an UNKNOWN state one day after updating.

If you have not yet updated to version 1.2.17, we recommend that you wait until version 1.2.18. We expect to release it on Tuesday, February 15th.

If you have already updated to version 1.2.17, an easy workaround exists; we will have details available tomorrow after we conclude an initial round of testing. If your site has already reported as UNKNOWN, the GOC can help update the accounting records so that your site is not incorrectly marked as UNKNOWN.

In addition, we have identified the reason that we missed this bug in testing, and we have updated our Integration Testbed procedures to catch this type of problem in the future.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

-alain
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Alain Roy
Open Science Grid Software Coordinator roy@cs.wisc.edu
http://opensciencegrid.org http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu

Monday, February 7, 2011

OSG 1.2.17 Release Notification

OSG Operations and Integration are pleased to announce the release of OSG version 1.2.17

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OSG 1.2.17 Update Notification
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Date: February 7, 2011

Affected Components

The following components are affected:

* All OSG software installations

Summary

This release incorporates a variety of fixes and changes to various OSG software components. RSV has been changed to use a new rsv-control script that allows for more control when starting, stopping, and running RSV probes. RSV now also has better support for a standalone RSV monitoring system. Bestman and Bestman2 have been updated to more recent version with several improvements and bug fixes. In addition, a new version of GIP has been included. The GIP update includes several job manager related bug fixes as well as support for WLCG site attributes..

* RSV has had a major overhaul to how it works. See theRSV documentation ( http://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/MonitoringInformation/RSV33 ) for full details.
* Bestman and SRM-Client-LBNL have been updated to 2.2.1.3.18
* Bestman2, Bestman-Client, and SRM-Tester3-LBNL have been updated to 2.0.5
* SRM-Client-Fermi has been updated to 1.9.5-23
* GIP has been updated to 1.1.14 and now supports advertising of WLCG site information
* MyProxy has been updated to address a security issue
* Gratia has been updated and now supports HTPC accounting

Update Instructions
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 ).

Additional Information
The release notes for the VDT 2.0.0p24 release underlying this release can be found here ( http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/2.0.0/release-p24.html ).


Thursday, February 3, 2011

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, February 8th at 14:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning at Tuesday, February 8th, 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 2.30 (https://oim.grid.iu.edu)

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

Made Site Form to not allow user from selecting disabled or inactive support centers.
Added a new OIM authorization action in order to allow security team to update contact information.
MyOSG / GIP-Validator

top-level-wlcg-bdii-monitor / Added LDAP timeout (5 seconds for each host) to handle unresponsive WLCG LDAP instances in order to avoid script timeout.
VO Matrix (v1.12) / Fixed bugs on VO matrix generator where invalid VO information from RSV can cause null pointer exception.

OSG Display (http://display.grid.iu.edu)

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

Updated Gratia SQL used to query source data in order to improve query performance.
TWiki (http://twiki.grid.iu.edu)

To correct a networking irregularity, the virtual server on the OSG TWiki's virtual machine host must be restarted. No other virtual machines share the same host, so no other services will be affected. The total downtime should not exceed 15 minutes.

We appreciate your understanding for the delay in this announcement. Weather emergencies in Indiana have caused staffing difficulties.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

New VO Package - GOC Ticket # 9835

A new VO package is now available. This package removes the GRASE VO, which is now functioning under the NYSGrid VO. It also removes the FNAL CMS VOMS entry from the vomses file, due to an error experienced by CMS users when this instance is used.

A detailed list of changes is available at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Operations/PackageV34

The GOC suggests backing up your installation before running any
update commands.

To pull the new VO Package for an OSG 1.0.x or 1.2.0 Resource please
use:
# cd $VDT_LOCATION
# source setup.sh
# pacman -update vo-package

Please remember a UNIX account for 'hcc' will need to be set up.

To pull the new VO Package for the OSG Client 1.0.x or 1.2.0 please use:
# cd $VDT_LOCATION
# source setup.sh
# pacman -update vo-client

Please see ticket 9835 at:
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/viewer?id=9835