OSG 1.2.24 Release Notification

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OSG 1.2.24 Update Notification
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Date: October 25, 2011

Affected Components

The following components are affected:

* CE installations
* CEMon
* GUMS/VOMS
* OSG client
* OSG wn-client
* Any other installation that uses Java

Summary

This release contains the following security updates:

* Java JDK 1.6.0u29

This update updates the Java JDK distributed with OSG software to
address multiple security vulnerabilities found in the Java JVM
and class libraries.

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 2.0.0p31 release underlying this
release can be found here ( http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/2.0.0/release-p31.html ).

IUPUI Network Maintenance - October 19, 2011

At 6:00 AM (eastern) October 19th Indiana University network engineers
will perform an emergency reboot of the primary and secondary
routers in the Indianapolis machine room. No outages are
expected and GOC personnel will be standing by during the reboots.

The GOC apologizes for the short notice and any potential inconvenience.

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, October 25th at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, October 25th, 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.
OSG Display 1.0.9

(This is a re-release of Oct 11th release.) Please be aware the GOC makes reasonable effort to support all major browsers current versions but cannot guarantee proper behavior for all browsers and browser versions.

ITB version is now available for testing at http://display-itb.grid.iu.edu
Fixed grammatical errors
Reduced the flickering caused by content resizing
Added jQuery mobile skin for mobile access
MyOSG 1.42

ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
Added mechanism to pull metric detail from the complete source (MetricRecord_Xml) if the detail seems to be truncated at 255 by Gratia collector.
GOC Ticket 1.44

ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu
Fixed a typo [Jira TICKET-28]

OS Updates

As is usual for the second update cycle in a month, the GOC will be updating the operating systems of all physical and virtual machines with the latest security and bugfix patches from the OS provider. In the case of BDII, we will be using the DNS round-robin to redirect traffic to the host not undergoing maintenance, but in all other cases expect a few minutes of downtime.

New VO Package - LBNE, GROW, and GLOW Updates

A new VO package is now available. This package updates the LBNE VO, removes the GROW VO, and changes the address of the GLOW VOMS.

A detailed list of changes is available at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Operations/PackageV40

OSG Operations 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

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 tickets at:
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/10929
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/10877
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/11072

OSG CA Distribution 1.24 Release Notification

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

This is version 1.24 and uses IGTF 1.42 as the basis.


Changes to the OSG certificates package:

====== Version 1.24 =============
Built 11 Oct 2011
IGTF 1.42 release
Changes from IGTF
Corrected signing_policy file for UKeScience CA 2B (UK)

FNAL Planned Power Outage - Saturday, October 15

Fermilab will have an outage of its Feynman Computing Center on Saturday, October 15. Services will begin going off at 03:00 AM Central. Power to the Feynman Computing Center building and computer rooms will be off from 06:00-14:00 Central. All services are expected to be restored by 17:00 Central at the latest.

OSG Gratia accounting reporting services, OSG VO VOMS/VOMRS service, and OSG ReSS services will remain available due to redundant facilities in another building.

The gatekeepers FNAL_FERMIGRID and FNAL_GPGRID_1 will be unavailable during the above time frame. The main www.opensciencegrid.org web page and OSG DOCDB will be unavailable during the above time frame. All LISTSERV lists for OSG will also be unavailable. Gratia Accounting collection services will be unavailable but the Gratia system is configured to recover automatically after the outage so there will be no data loss.

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, October 11th at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, October 11th, 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 Client (GOC Internal Service)

Adding a new RSV probes to monitor a service under development.

MyOSG 1.41

ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
Modify service status dashboard to display status of a service under development.
[MYOSG-22]
Hidden DN information from rgdowntime(&xml) page
Added DN information to vosummary / rgsummary / scsummary / miscuser (&XMLs) pages
Fixed the XML parser issue on vovomsstatus XML
Modified ResourceContact, VOContact, VOReportContact, SupportCenterContact, and Contact models to pull DN records for each contact
Improved mobile content view (added viewport meta element and fixed various CSS issues for mobile content)

OSG Jira

ITB version is now available for testing at http://jira-osg-itb.grid.iu.edu
Upgrading to version Jira 4.4

OSG Display

ITB version is now available for testing at http://display-itb.grid.iu.edu
Fixed grammatical errors
Reduced the flickering caused by content resizing
Added jQuery mobile skin for mobile access
VM Moves

The GOC will be moving the virtual machines “software2” and “rsvprocess2” from the IUPIU data center to the IUB data center. No service interruption is expected, but software.grid.iu.edu may experience somewhat slower performance. myosg1 and data1, both currently hosted at IUB will be moved to a new host also located at IUB. A brief outage for MyOSG should be expected.