GOC Service Update - Tuesday, August 23rd at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves four hours (13:00 - 17:00 UTC) in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered. We encourage users to test affected services before the production release.

RSV-SAM Uploader

Minor update to the logging & monitoring script to allow verbose / debug logging to be separated from the normal error log.

Software Cache

Installing service monitor.

OSG Display

ITB version is now available for testing at https://display-itb.grid.iu.edu
Made graph titles consistent across all graphs types. [DISPLAY-1]

Gratiaweb

ITB version is now available for testing at https://gratiaweb-itb.grid.iu.edu
Fixed proxy timeout issues. This fix allows long running queries to be properly processed and passed to the user. [METRICS-1] / [METRICS-3]

TWiki

ITB version is now available for testing at https://twiki-itb.grid.iu.edu
Removed old twiki controllers. Although twiki’s native login managers were replaced by GOC’s custom X509 authentication module, old controllers were still available and partly functioning [TWIKI-4]
TWiki will be moved to a new host (jazmine.uits.indiana.edu).

Network Outage at Indiana University

At 4:15 EDT today Indiana University experienced a network outage. This outage was resolved and service was restored at 6:35 EDT. During this period all OSG Operations Services located at IU were offline, this includes the OSG BDII and MyOSG critical level services along with the OSG Software Cache, RSV, OIM, OSG Display, Ticket, TWiki and the VOMS for MIS and OSGEDU. Details of the outage will be reported at the weekly Operations (https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Operations/ProductionMeetingMinutes) and Production (https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Production/WeeklyProductionMeetings) Meetings.

OSG 1.2.21 Release Notification

OSG Operations and Integration are pleased to announce the release of OSG version 1.2.21.

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OSG 1.2.21 Update Notification
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Date: August 11, 2011

Affected Components

The following components are affected:

* All RSV installations
* CE installations
* Gratia

Summary

This release contains the following updates:

* GIP updates
* Gratia probe updates
* JDK update
* Bestman2 update to 2.0.14
* LFC update

Several other updates are also included in this release, see
the VDT update page for more details

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 2.0.0p28 release underlying this
release can be found here (http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/2.0.0/release-p28.html ).

OSG RPM CA Distribution Problem

This message is for the OSG site administrators who have used rpm or
yum mechanisms to update their certificate authority (CA) caches since
9:00 EDT 8/9/11. If you retrieve CA caches via pacman updates, you can ignore
this message.

There was a problem in the production rpm cache that began with the
cache update yesterday (8/9/11) and was corrected this afternoon
(8/10/11). If you did a yum update during this time (yum update
osg-ca-certs), your site may have ended up with CA caches that may
cause problems. You may also see RSV CA probe failures. We have fixed the
problem in the software cache. In order to get rid of the incorrect
package and install the new one, please run the command:

rpm -Uhv --oldpackage http://software.grid.iu.edu/yum/rpms/noarch/osg-ca-certs-1.20-0.noarch.rpm
(all one line)

To understand whether you installed the incorrect package, go to
TRUSTED_CA directory and check the installed package version. If you
see 1.20NEW in CHANGES file, you have the incorrect package. If you
see 1.20, then you have the correct version, and you do not need to take
any action. You can also go inside TRUSTED_CA/certificates directory
and do an ls -al, if you see a large number of symbolic links, you
have the incorrect package.

Our sincere apologies for this mistake. Please contact us immediately
if you have questions.

Mine Altunay (OSG Security Coordinator)
Scott Teige (OSG Operations Technical Lead)

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, August 9th at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves four hours (13:00 - 17:00 UTC) in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered. We encourage users to test affected services before the production release.

OIM 2.37

ITB version is now available for testing at https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu
Added blogs and display service links on the application header

OSG Display 1.0.8

ITB version is now available for testing at http://display-itb.grid.iu.edu
Made the auto-rotation of the tab to stop when user switch a tab.
Updated the data refresh frequency from every 10 minutes to every 15 minutes [GOC Ticket 9245]

MyOSG 1.38

ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
Added GOC glidein service to the Operations Status Overview page.
Added blogs and display service links on the application header & home page. Moved BDII information browser page to the sample page list on the home page.

GOC Ticket 1.41

ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu
Added check to make sure at least one assignee was assignee [TICKET-8]
Moved the location of the assignment override logic back to NextAssignment model
Added a functionality on ticket viewer to show who is currently viewing the same ticket
(already patched) Fixed the issue where page redirection was broken if the ticket's the auto-window closing feature somehow does not work on the browser.
Fixed the issue where incorrect ticket ID was displayed for security announcement ticket access control page.
Added blogs and display service links on the application header

InCommon HTTP/SSL certificates

We will be replacing various DOEGrids-issued HTTP/SSL certificates with our new UserTrust/InCommon-issued certificates. This change was postponed from the previous update cycle due to OS updates. 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

IUPUI Power Maintenance - Aug 4, 2011

IU engineers have scheduled power maintenance for the University Library at IUPUI from 5:30 to 7:30 AM EDT Thursday, August 4, 2011. Some network equipment used by OSG is sited there. Emergency power will be supplied to the network equipment and no outages are anticipated. GOC will monitor the status and respond as appropriate should failure occur.