Saturday, July 30, 2011

IUPUI Network Outage - July 30, 2011

At 6:40 EDT Saturday July 30th, network connectivity was lost in the Indianapolis machine room.
Recovery was complete by 8:25 and all GOC services are currently operating normally.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, July 26th at 14:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning at Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves eight hours (13:00 - 21:00 UTC) in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered. We encourage users to test affected services before the production release.
OIM 2.36

ITB version is now available for testing at https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu
Update DivRep library to the latest version
Cosmetic updates due to FF / Chrome updates.
Installed capacity report / Removed the bin/wlcg.sh dependency and added a rpm builder.

MyOSG 1.37

ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
Updated BDII information page to have sortable tables for various BDII objects such as Service, CE, SE, Storage Areas, and Cluster. Each records can be expanded to display detailed information [MYOSG-10]
On Resource Group / Gratia Accounting Graphs pages, switched gratia graphs URLs from UNL to gratiaweb.grid.iu.edu.
Updated various GOC Ticket URLs to use shorter URLs.
Cosmetic updates due to FF / Chrome updates.
GOC Ticket 1.40

ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu
Updated GOC Tickets URLs that were still using long URL format.
Fixed a bug where ticket ID was not correctly displayed on security ticket template.
Cosmetic updates due to FF / Chrome updates.
Software

ITB version is now available for testing at https://software-itb.grid.iu.edu/cert/certreg.php
Removed Sau Lan Wu and John Huth from the VO sponsor list for ATLAS VO [GOC Ticket 10700]
InCommon HTTP/SSL certificates

We will be replacing various DOEGrids-issued HTTP/SSL certificates with our new UserTrust/InCommon-issued certificates. Affected services are myosg, oim, software, ticket, and twiki. InCommon certificates are trusted on all major browsers by default and do not require users to manually trust our certificates anymore. In order to ensure a smooth transition, please start testing them on our ITB instances.
https://myosg.grid.iu.edu
https://oim.grid.iu.edu
https://software.grid.iu.edu
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu

New Service: GratiaWeb

The Gratia graph service is now available from the GOC at http://gratiaweb.grid.iu.edu The previous instance http://t2.unl.edu/gratia/ currently forwards to the GOC site. If you are using the old URL, please update to http://gratiaweb.grid.iu.edu
New Service: “Planet OSG” - Blog Aggregator

OSG Planet service is now available from the GOC at http://blogs.grid.iu.edu
This service allows you to read blogs written by people from the Open Science Grid community by aggregating various blogs into a single URL. You can read them directly on this URL, or via your favorite Atom/RSS reader by subscribing to its feeds.
All Services: Operating System Upgrades

We will be installing updated packages from Redhat for all production systems. This will mean downtime, although in the case of the BDII service, we will use the DNS round-robin to direct traffic to the currently unaffected server. These OS updates have already been installed on all ITB systems, and you are encouraged to test them.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Network Outage Notice Sunday July 24

Indiana University network engineers will perform maintenance effecting the Indianapolis machine room between 6:00 and 8:00 AM EDT on Sunday July 24th. This maintenance will interrupt network connectivity to the Indianapolis instances of GOC services. The actual outage is expected to be much shorter than the maintenance window and is currently estimated to be 10-15 minutes. Disruptions to GOC services are expected to be minimal.

New VO Package - GOC Ticket # 10666

A new VO package is now available. This package updates the CMS GUMS information to add the cmssoft group and contact information for the DREAM VO.

A detailed list of changes is available at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Operations/PackageV39

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 to add local accounts for cmssoft as necessary.

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 10666 at:
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/viewer?id=10666

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

New VO Package

A new VO package is now available. This package adds the GCVO (Grid Colombia VO), the GCEDU (Grid Colombia Education VO), SuperB, and DREAM.

A detailed list of changes is available at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Operations/PackageV38

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 accounts for these new VOs to be properly mapped. The GCEDU VO is an educational VO and will contain student users, please only enable this VO if you support the OSG Education projects.

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

Monday, July 11, 2011

Maintenance Notification - July 14 and 15

IU Electrical Engineers will perform maintenance potentially effecting theIndianapolis machine room between 8am-5pm EDT on both Thursday and Friday, July 14 and 15. While this work is not expected to cause any outage to OSG Services, there are minor risks associated with any power maintenance. If there is an outage, we will immediately inform the community and take proper corrective action. All services located in Bloomington will not be affected.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 1400 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning at Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 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.

GOC-Ticket Exchanger 1.20

(Postponed from 6.14 release) Exchanging submitter DN between GGUS and Footprints so that ticket submitted through Footprints can be edited in GGUS via the same submitter.

GOC Ticket 1.39

ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu
Updated various GOC ticket viewer links to use shorter URL (/goc/123)
Removed unnecessary invocation of GOC assignee logic on Custom Form.


All Services: Network Port Reorganization

As part of the process of adding new servers to the Bloomington rack, we will be reorganizing the network ports on July 12 to keep them in an intuitive and maintainable order. Although every server will be affected, outages longer than ten seconds are not expected. We will be monitoring in case of more lasting consequences.

Coming Soon - InCommon HTTP/SSL certificates


We will be replacing various DOEGrids-issued HTTP/SSL certificates with our new UserTrust/InCommon-issued certificates on July 26th. Affected services are myosg, oim, software, ticket, and twiki. InCommon certificates are trusted on all major browsers by default and do not require users to manually trust our certificates anymore. In order to ensure a smooth transition, please start testing them on our ITB instances.
https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu
https://software-itb.grid.iu.edu
https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu
https://twiki-itb.grid.iu.edu

Outage notification - Sunday July 10

Network engineers will perform maintenance effecting the Indianapolis
machine room between 6:00 and 8:00 AM EDT on Sunday July 10th. This
maintenance will interrupt network connectivity to the Indianapolis
instances of GOC services. The actual outage is expected to be much
shorter then the maintenance window and is currently estimated
to be 10-15 minutes. Disruptions to GOC services are expected to be minimal.