Thursday, December 27, 2012

Severe Weather Conditions at Indiana University

Due to continuing severe weather conditions the Indianapolis campus of Indiana University will be closed Thursday, December 27th (http://emergency.iu.edu). The OSG Operations Center will be operating on emergency weekend and evening procedures until at least the morning of Friday, December 28th. Critical services and emergency response will still be addressed immediately, but normal routine business items and ticket handling may be postponed until we are back on campus.

We anticipate both campuses will be operating normally by Friday but will update our status then if this is not the case.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Severe Weather Conditions at Indiana University

Due to severe weather the Indianapolis and Bloomington campuses of Indiana University will be closed Wednesday, December  26th. (http://emergency.iu.edu) The OSG Operations Center will be operating on emergency weekend and evening procedures until at least the morning of Thurssday, December 27th. Critical services and emergency response will still be addressed immediately, but normal routine business items and ticket handling may be postponed until we are back on campus.

As this winter weather situation could persist beyond today, we will update you with our operational status tomorrow morning.

Monday, December 24, 2012

Happy Holidays from the OSG Operations Center

OSG Collaborators,

From everyone in Operations we would like to wish you a happy holiday season, and wish you good fortune and progress in all of your endeavors in 2013!

The GOC will continue to provide round the clock holiday coverage in case of emergencies over the holiday season. You can continue to open tickets at https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/open, send us mail at goc@openscinecegrid.org, of call us at +1 (317)-274-9699. However, we will be operating on holiday procedures on Monday the 24th, Tuesday the 25th Monday the 31st, and Tuesday the 1st. During this time any reported non-emergency issues will be handled on the next business day.

Thanks to everyone for a very successful year! We look forward to seeing everyone at the All Hands Meeting in Indianapolis this Spring. See http://pti.iu.edu/osgahm-2013 for details and registration.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Registration Open for the 2013 OSG All Hands Meetings

I am happy to announce registration is now open for the 2013 Open Science Grid All Hands Meeting.

The OSG Operations Center and Indiana University will be hosting the annual OSG All Hands Meeting on the week of March 11th on the downtown Indianapolis campus of IUPUI. Indiana University has been a long term core partner of the OSG and has provided operational infrastructure and support services since the inception of the project. The choice of having IU and the OSG Operations Center host these meetings offers an excellent opportunity for collaborators to learn about the Operational and Support Services the community relies on to provide the Distributed High Throughput Computing environment provided by OSG.

The scheduled daily topics include:
*Monday, March 11th: US ATLAS and CMS Tier 2 Facilities Meeting; Interoperations with EGI and WLCG
*Tuesday, March 12th: Campus Infrastructures Community Workshop
*Wednesday, March 13th: State of the OSG; Scienctific Highlights; Technology Discussion
*Thursday, March 14th: Technology Discussions and User/Admin Hands-On Sessions; Meetings will conclude at approximately lunchtime.
*OSG Council Meeting: Thursday afternoon and Friday morning

Please visit the 2013 OSG AHM site at http://pti.iu.edu/osgahm-2013 for information, details, and registration.

Lothar Bauerdick, OSG Executive Director
Bill Barnett, IU Research Technologies Director of Science Community Tools
Fred Luehring, IU HEP Research Scientist
Therese Miller, Manager of Collaboration and Engagement for Research Technologies
Rob Quick, OSG Operations Area Coordinator

Thursday, December 13, 2012

OSG Software version 3.1.12 Released

Hello,

We're pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.12. This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for Scientific Linux 5 and 6, CentOS 5 and 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The changes in this release include changes that primarily affect the compute element as well as a new set of certificates.

- New release of IGTF and OSG CA certificates
- Globus GRAM Job Manager update
- GlideinWMS 2.6.2 RPMs
- netlogger logging fix
- osg-configure and system profiler fixes

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3112

Need help? Let us know: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We look forward to your feedback on this new release.

Doug Strain
OSG Software

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

OSG TWiki Available

During routine maintenance a hardware problem was encountered on the machine hosting TWiki. Service was restored at 2:30 Eastern Time. Please contact the GOC if you encounter any problems.

OSG TWiki Currently Unavailable

Currently, the OSG TWiki is unavailable due to problems with the
host hardware. The hardware will be physically examined and
a determination of the course of action will be made at that time.
The service should be restored within the current maintenance window.
Please see
http://osggoc.blogspot.com/2012/12/goc-service-update-tuesday-goc-service.html
for the maintenance announcment and schedule.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, GOC Service Update - Tuesday,

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 14:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 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 3.10

(patched) Fixed a bug caused by incorrect session validation and updated tomcat5 configuration in order to fix issues some users were having during user certificate issuing.
Fixed a bug where user contact was not enabled - after RA approves the user certificate request [OSGPKI-268]
Updated sample Perfsonar Service Detail endpoint.
Fixed HTML5 related bugs on divrep library
Added endpoint parameter for perfsonar service [OIM-52]
Added endpoint & repo config parameter for cvmfs service (prototype)
Added capability to define oasis managers in VO [OIM-53]
Trying IGNORE_COOKIES cookie policy instead of http.protocol.single-cookie-header as 2nd attempt to silence the cookie warning
Patched error message thrown when googlebot accesses certificate detail page without creating session
(patched) Fixed a bug where empty dn association list causes null pointer exception.
(patched) Fixed a bug where it was checking incorrect object for disabled contact
Updated host/user certificate request form labels.
(patched) added request comment for user cert request
Added a note on the registration form to open GOC ticket for dn / contact association for an existing account


MyOSG 2.4

Added OASIS information and enable flag filter for VO summary
Added dn.disable flag filter for support center, vo report, vo contact, dn, resource contact models
Cosmetic fixes for OIM search result page


GOC Ticket 1.59

Making Apache Solr the primary ticket search system



Reports (reports.grid.iu.edu)

Upgrading InstalledCapacityReport to version 1.0-12 https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/12385


OSG Display 1.0.12

Cosmetic updates / browser compatibility fixes


TWiki

Configuration changes for OSG Documentation [SOFTWARE-613]


Blogs

ITB version can be tested via http://blogs-itb.grid.iu.edu
Added BOSCO Blog
Added Miha Ahronovitz Blog


All Services

CIlogon CA will be added.
There will be OS updates; reboots will be required. Downtime should be minimal, and the usual high-availability mechanisms will be used to reduce service downtime even further and eliminate it in most cases. However, services may experience degraded performance, and the services without HA mechanisms (OIM and Twiki) will still experience brief downtimes.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Power Incident at UK data center

Dear OSG Sites,

The RAL Tier 1 center in the UK has had a major power incident. Their T1 network and CA services are currently down or recovering.

UK provides 4 Certificate Authorities, all IGTF-accredited and included in current OSG CA bundle. All 4 are affected by this event.  

As a result, OSG Site RSV probes checking CRL freshness will start failing. This has no adverse affect on OSG sites since RSV CRL probes are not rated as critical, and it does not affect WLCG sites availability calculations. Site admins are not expected to take any actions. 

If the CA services are restored by December 16, OSG sites will experience no adverse affects and site admins are not expected to take any action. If the services cannot be restored by then, we will send you another message describing the actions you need to take. Below we also list the expiration dates for the CRL files from these CAs. As seen, the earliest expiration date is Dec 16.

Currently, the CRL files are set to expire as follows: 
UKeScienceCA-2007 nextUpdate=Dec 16 10:41:55 2012 GMT
UKeScienceCA-2A nextUpdate=Dec 19 15:15:01 2012 GMT
UKeScienceCA-2B  nextUpdate=Dec 16 10:41:50 2012 GMT
UKeScienceRoot-2007 nextUpdate=Jan  2 16:35:43 2014 GMT

We do not anticipate further effects on OSG services but are monitoring the situation and will inform you of any developments.

Grid Operations Center Holiday Notice

From November 22 through November 25 the GOC will be operating on a Holiday
schedule. Staff will be available to respond to emergencies but
routine operations will resume at start of business Monday, November 26.

The GOC wishes its users and OSG staff a happy and satisfying
Thanksgiving Holiday.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

OSG Software Release 3.1.11

Hello,

We're pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.11. This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for Scientific Linux 5 and 6, CentOS 5 and 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. i

Major changes include:

CA cert updater: new package to update CA certificates
VOMS admin update
java security update
condor update
RSV updates for probe fixes

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3111

Need help? Let us know: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We look forward to your feedback on this new release.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

OSG 1.2.31 Update Notification

******************************
OSG 1.2.31 Update Notification
******************************

Date: November 6, 2012

Affected Components

The following components are affected:

* Java (affects all OSG installs)

Summary

This release contains the following updates to address security
vulnerabilities:

* Java 1.6.0_37

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 2.0.0p38 release underlying this
release can be found here ( http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/2.0.0/release-p38.html ).

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, November 13th at 14:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 14:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 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.


GOC-TX 1.28

(patched) ServiceNow: Added connection timeout in order to contain attachment sync issue.
(patched) ServiceNow: Fixed the error handling issue.
ServiceNow: Updated to the latest WSDL from production instance.
Updated the log for missing submitter dn info
RT: Implemented ticket exchange veto-ing
XSEDE/BNL: Updated to allow basic auth for RT accessor.
XSEDE: Implemented accessor for XSEDE.
Added framework function to add veto-capability if destination is not reverse synced to source ticket
ServiceNow: Implemented ticket exchange veto-ing capability based on caller ID.
GGUS: Implemented ticket exchange veto-ing capability based on Origin support group.


OIM 3.9

Added check for invalidated session.
Fixed the timing when user cert status will be updated during request approval.
Changed so that GridAdmins will be not cc-ed to host certificate request ticket if the submitter is one of the Gridadmin for that domain [OSGPKI-230]
Added tool-tip for Contact DNs. Added number of DN to contact list [OSGPKI-204]
Added request_comment and request_ccs fields (optional) for host certificate request REST API. Added request_comment fiels for host certificate request form. [OSGPKI-222 / OSGPKI-229]
Added code to disable expired DN [OSGPKI-223]
Added code to update GOC ticket in case of host certificate issue failure [OSGPKI-219]
Implemented user_info REST API
Updated description made during request cancelation.
Changed the timing of user certificate counter to during RA approval [OSGPKI-168]
Updated the way host certificate timeout was implemented [OSGPKI-250]
Added reset code for user/host certificate during renewal requested.
Removed 60 seconds wait and simplified the delay logic between each loops during host certificate issuing.
Updated DOEGrids references inside RA enrollment agreement template with "OSG PKI" [OSGPKI-246]
Added precautionary check for missing user cert encryption password
Browser jump: added jump to "Other browser" in case of uknown browser
Added capability to list all enabled DN on DNModel
Updated user cert request model so that user can take over contact with nothing but disabled DN. Also fixed the bug where CN is created with null contact id during take over.
ContactModel: Submitter can now edit contact with associated disabled DN. Made isTWikiIDExist function only look for enabled contact
DNModel: Added capability to enumerate only enabled DNs.
Contact: added indicator for disabled DN
ContactForm: Allowed GOC to use duplicate twiki ID if duplicate is for disabled contact
Fixed typo [OSGPKI-233]
Added SmallTableModelBase.emptyAllCache() after resetting daily & yearly counters
Added code to post admin provided action note for revoke action (both user/host) to GOC ticket.
(patched) missing dn.disable = false during registration
Removed click event for edit - which was disallowing copy & paste for gridadmin list
(patched) Fixed incorrect user quota counter increment [OSGPKI-217]
Add a note that MIS VO can be used for certificates to access OSG web servers [OSGPKI-220]
Truncated OIMlog value at 2048 chars
Fixed the host quota check issue (off by 1)
(patched) added more log for issued cert
(patched) improved handling in case digicert returns unexpected pkcs7
Added -T option for cert-retrieve instruction if it's running in debug mode
Fixed the timing of dn.disable.
Other bug fixes.


TWiki

Added a filter for disabled DN for user authentication.


GOC Ticket 1.58

Added PKI related notification destinations [OSGPKI-253]
Added assignee override on RestController (can only be done at the ticket creation time)
Added descriptive error message for auth check failure
(patched) updated ticket title label
Made config change so that quoted metadata won't be processed as real metadata
Adjusted style for past update description
Put redirect on various deprecated forms
Refactored initSubmit in order to set submitter information and streamlined it similar to Update controller


MyOSG 2.3

Fixed an issue where Campus Grid icons weren’t displayed in RSV status map on OSG display
Made disabled entities available on the entity selector in query wizard.
Fixed label display issue for Current RSV status page
(Patched) Fixed an issue where service availability was incorrectly displaying the AR information
Various cosmetic changes and fixed typos.

All Services

There will be OS updates; reboots will be required. Downtime should be minimal, and the usual high-availability mechanisms will be used to reduce service downtime even further and eliminate it in most cases. However, services may experience degraded performance, and the services without HA mechanisms (OIM and Twiki) will still experience brief downtimes.

Monday, October 29, 2012

Save the Date, March 11-14, 2013 - Open Science Grid All Hands Meeting

On March 11-14, 2013, the Open Science Grid will host it's annual All Hands Meeting at the Indiana University campus located in downtown Indianapolis. Join collaborators, users, and staff to network, address recent developments, and explore new research being conducted using campus level and national cyberinfrastructure environments provided by the OSG. Workshops include co-located US ATLAS and US CMS computing meetings and the next face-to-face meeting in the series for the Campus Infrastructure Community.

The OSG All Hands Mmeeting brings together national and international collaborators of all sizes for the purpose of sharing ideas, resources, news and best practices within the OSG community. Registration will open soon. We hope to see you in March.

Lothar Bauerdick, OSG Executive Director
Bill Barnett, IU Research Technologies Director of Science Community Tools
Fred Luehring, IU HEP Research Scientist
Therese Miller, Manager of Collaboration and Engagement for Research Technologies
Rob Quick, OSG Operations Area Coordinator

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

New VO Package – SuberB Role Additions and LBNE Change

A new VO package is now available. This package adds new roles to the SuperB VO and removes the LBNE Sub VO from the FermiGrid VO, LBNE is now has full VO membership and is no longer a sub-VO.

A detailed list of changes is available at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Operations/PackageV43

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

This will also be part of the OSG 3.1.11 Software Release, which will be released in the near future. Instructions will be available at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/ReleaseNotes

Please see tickets at:
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/12365
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/12411

Monday, October 22, 2012

FNAL Significant Power Event

At approximately 7:00 AM (US central time) FNAL experienced a significant power event affecting the 2nd floor of Feynman Computer Center. As a result of this event OSG Operational Services located at FNAL (Gratia, DocDB and ReSS) may be unavailable. Updates from FNAL are available via Twitter feed: FNALServiceDesk

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

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

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 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.
All Services

There will be OS updates; reboots will be required. Downtime should be minimal, and the usual high-availability mechanisms will be used to reduce service downtime even further and eliminate it in most cases. However, services may experience degraded performance, and the services without HA mechanisms (OIM and Twiki) will still experience brief downtimes.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

IMPORTANT Update to OSG 3 Resources

OSG Resource Administrators,

The latest OSG 3 update contains a new CA certificates release. If your resource is using the OSG 1.2 release, you can ignore this message.

If you have OSG 3 resources and do not update, RSV monitoring could report errors in as little as 2 days from the update, lowering your WLCG availability.

If you have OSG 3 resources please check this document: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/CaCertUpdate

This document will tell you:
- if an update is necessary
- how to check if you have the latest CA certificates
- the urgency of this update based on your OSG 3 version
- how to update (either your system or the CA certificates only)

Thank you.

OSG Production Team

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

OSG 3.1.10 has been released

Hello,

We're pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.10. This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for Scientific Linux 5 and 6, CentOS 5 and 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The changes in this release include changes that affect the all osg software

Updates to OSG and IGTF CA certificates including replacements for certificates expiring within a month
Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3110

Need help? Let us know: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We look forward to your feedback on this new release.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

GOC Service Update - Tuesday October 9 2012

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 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 3.8

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

Added validator for email field in guest user certificate request.
For user certificate request form, modified to only list VOs that has RAs listed.
Another bit of update to experimental RG/WLCG values.
Updated CC-list for various registration notifications (Replaced Ruth with Lothar).
Added capability to disable DN records. Revoked DNs will be immediately disabled by OIM.
Renamed "Add GridAdmin" to "Add domain" Added code to remove registered DN if someone revokes the cert (doesn't mean digicert has actually published the serial id in crl)
CC-ed osg-ra@ for user certificate request notification tickets
Added an option for httpclient to suppress cookie warnings (experimental)
Added capability for RA enrollment request form to set SC and VO metadata.
Fixed a bug where bulk host certificates/serial ID were not listed correctly in the download link.
Made GridAdmin list page public.
Updated to allow assigning multiple gridadmins per domain [OSGPKI-172]
Updated divrep.jar to fire field validation on every key stroke for password field
Other various minor bug fixes
(patched) fixed the null pointer issue check for rarequest
(patched) fixed the null pointer issue for vo science list
(patched) allowing character 0-9, and -(dash) for domain name validator used by GridAdmin form.
(patched) Added null check for optional field in CampusGrid form.

MyOSG 2.2
ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu

Fixed broken xml issue on misccount page.
Updated login URL so that user can stay on the same page that is logging into.
Added detection for unregistered DN, and disabled DN/contact.
Switched to use CampusGrid table for status map.
Updated thumbnail images on the home page
made availability models more efficient in case of empty resource list
(patched) fixed ServieAR model issue where it fails to load empty list when no resource_ids are selected
(patched) added multi-domain google analytics back

GOC Ticket 1.57

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

Added feature to handle disabled contact / dn
Added support for recaptcha through https
Fixed an issue where field column are overlapped in ticket viewer
Updated login URL so that user can stay on the same page that is logging into.
Made submitter DN to show up only if it is necessary.
Fixed the issue where user can’t copy & paste content from ticket description by moving the ticket anchor link to a dedicated icon outside of the description.
Made "close window" button hidden if there are no window to close (no window.opener).
Deprecated old pages that were causing cookie issues (Navigatorold, Naviagator2, admin)
Other various minor bug fixes
(patched) fixed the checklist click issue
(patched) added cookie remove code for old navigator


OSG Display 1.0.11

ITB version is available at http://display-itb.grid.iu.edu

Upgrading to jQuery-UI 1.8.24 (to fix the radio button issue)

Repo

ITB version is available at http://repo-itb.grid.iu.edu

Upgrading mash to version 0.5.22-2.osg

GratiaWeb

ITB version is available at http://gratiaweb-itb.grid.iu.edu

Upgrading graphtool to version 0.6.6-13 [GRATIAWEB-24]
Blogs

ITB version can be tested via http://blogs-itb.grid.iu.edu

Added Mats Rynge Blog
Added Trevor McKay Blog
Added Robert Rati Blog

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

New OSG Mailing List for CVMFS

OSG Operations and Support Centers Mailing List Members,

We have created a new mailing list for the technical discussion of CVMFS. This list is at osg-cvmfs@opensciencegrid.org and moderated by Operations and Dave Dykstra, if you have any interest in participating or observing discussion about CVMFS please feel free to subscribe to this forum.

To subscribe send a mail to listserv.fnal.gov with the following information in the body of the mail:

SUBSCRIBE osg-cvmfs@opensciencegrid.org FIRSTNAME LASTNAME

Thursday, September 27, 2012

OSG 1.2.30 Has Been Released

******************************
OSG 1.2.30 Update Notification
******************************

Date: September 26, 2012

Affected Components

The following components are affected:

* Java

Summary

This release contains the following updates to address security
vulnerabilities:

* Java 1.6.0_35

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 2.0.0p37 release underlying this
release can be found here ( http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/2.0.0/release-p37.html ).

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

OSG Software release 3.1.9

We are pleased to announce OSG Software release 3.1.9. This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for Scientific Linux 5 and 6, CentOS 5 and 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The changes in this release affect both clients and compute elements:

• JDK 1.6.0_35 is a recommended security update
• Condor 7.8.4 contains a number of bug fixes and minor security updates
• GRAM updates that fix some critical bugs
• GSI-OpenSSH now sets the LCMAPS environment
• Several updates to networking tools: NDT, bwctl, and nuttcp
• Plus many other updates and fixes!

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release319 .

Need help? Let us know: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure .

We look forward to your feedback on this new release.

Friday, September 21, 2012

OSG Campus Infrastructures Community Workshop at UC Santa Cruz

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to a workshop on shared campus high throughput computing infrastructures, and engagement of science communities that use them, to be held November 14-15, 2012 at the University of California, Santa Cruz. While we realize this comes at a non-ideal time for many (during SC12), the time and venue correspond to co-located meetings where there is overlap of interested groups and expertise, namely the U.S. ATLAS Distributed Computing Facilities meeting and the U.S. CMS Anydata Anywhere Anytime meeting. A second workshop is planned for March 2013, to be co-located with the OSG All Hands meeting in Indianapolis.

Registration, lodging and travel details, and a preliminary agenda are available at https://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=5927. While we hope most can attend in person there will be a video service for remote participants.

Best Regards,

Rob Gardner

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

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

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, September 25th, 2012 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 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 3.7

ITB version can be tested via https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu

CampusGrid form is now in production. The information will eventually fed to MyOSG’s status map to render CampusGrid icons.
Applied various input from Derek
Added VO name in the title of the user certificate request email



GOC Ticket 1.56

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

Updated to bootstrap styling.
(patched) Fixed incorrect assignment of ASSOCIATE_VO metadata during ticket submission.



RSV-SAM

ITB version is now publishing data to stomp://sam-validation.msg.cern.ch:6163

Updated logic used to determine which RSV records are sent to SAM. RSV-SAM is now capable of looking up OIM’s resource aliases as well as URI overrides in service detail to determine which resource group each metric record belongs. This change may require some sites to adjust OIM’s resource alias / URI override in order to ensure continued forwarding of the metrics. GOC will be identifying affected sites during the ITB window.



GOC-TX 1.27

Update will be released on 9/26 to coincide with GGUS SOAP upgrade (except the LVS update).

LVS enabling tx.grid.iu.edu (tx2 will be a standby)
Updating GGUS SOAP interface to use the new consolidated interface



JIRA

Internally, the JIRA server will be renamed to jira.grid.iu.edu rather than jira-osg.grid.iu.edu, but its jira.opensciencegrid.org will not change.



All Services

There will be OS updates; reboots will be required. Downtime should be minimal as the LVS and DNS-round-robin mechanisms will be used to reduce service downtime even further.
This update will see the completion of the transition from the old 129.79.14.* IP addresses to the new 129.79.53.* IP addresses with the removal of the logical network adapters that were listening on the old addresses. The old IP addresses will then be retired.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

OSG PKI Training registration now available for RAs, Grid Admins

Dear prospective OSG PKI Registration Agents and Grid Admins,

The new OSG PKI that will go into operation in October, while being very similar to the DOE Grids PKI, will have changes to its interface and workflows. Hence the transition team is offering training to Registration Agents and Grid Admins.

Training sessions will be available via webcast and will involve hands-on approval of certificates via the OSG test PKI. Times and URLs for registration are below.

** Please register at least a week in advance so that we can grant you access to the training system. **

Note that one change is how responsibilities are divided between Grid Admins and Registration Agents. In the new OSG PKI, Registration Agents will be solely responsible for certificates for people, while Grid Admins will be responsible solely for host and service certificates. We expect some individuals will be both Registration Agents and Grid Admins.

If you have any questions, please feel feel to contain Von Welch (vwelch@indiana.edu), OSG PKI Transition Project Lead, Mine Altunay (maltunay@fnal.gov) or Jim Basney (jbasney@illinois.edu), OSG PKI Training Leads.

Thank you,

Von

* Monday Oct 1 12-4pm CT: Registration Agent Training Session 1
https://indico.fnal.gov/event/2012OSGRATrain1

* Monday Oct 8 12-4pm CT: Grid Admin Training Session 1
https://indico.fnal.gov/event/2012OSGGATrain1

* Monday Oct 22 12-4pm CT: Registration Agent Training Session 2
https://indico.fnal.gov/event/2012OSGRATrain2

* Friday Oct 26 12-4pm CT: Grid Admin Training Session 2
https://indico.fnal.gov/event/2012OSGGATrain2

For the latest information on OSG PKI training, please see https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Security/OSGPKITraining

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Special Maintenance window for GOC Production Glidein Factory - Tuesday, September 18, 2012 17:00 UTC

Operators will perform maintenance on the GOC Glidein Factory beginning Tuesday, September 18, 2012 from 17:00 - 18:00 UTC.

It has been discovered the factory will not work with any frontends that have already upgraded to GlideinWMS v2_6_1 until we also upgrade the factory to v2_6_1.

The upgrade will be quick and the factory should not be down for more than 20 minutes. It will not adversely affect any currently running glideins in any way and UCSD will continue to serve the frontends as usual while the GOC Factory is down.

Monday, September 10, 2012

DOE Grids service transition

Dear colleagues,

As we have been communicating with you over the past several months, ESnet will be fully transitioning support for the DOE Grids certificate service to a new service operated by the Open Science Grid (OSG).

We have reached a critical juncture in the transition where it is necessary for you to begin solidifying your organization’s future certificate service plans to ensure no interruption of service. We encourage you to read the following information carefully.

In mid-March 2013 the DOE Grids PKI will cease issuing new certificates. The exact timing will coincide with the planned Large Hadron Collider (LHC) shutdown. The exact date of the shutdown is still being determined and we will share that specific date as soon as it is set. After DOE Grids concludes offering certificate services, all users will either need to use the OSG certificate service (the “OSG PKI”), or some other provider, to obtain or renew certificates. All certificates issued by DOE Grids prior to its cessation of service in mid-March 2013 will continue to function for 12 months after the date of issue.

To help ensure a seamless transition of service, beginning October 1, 2012, the OSG PKI will begin issuing production-ready certificates. This will allow you time to transition to the new service and resolve any issues that may arise before the DOE Grids service ends. The new OSG PKI will have a new look and feel, but effort has been made to keep the workflow and processes similar to the DOE Grids PKI. There is friendly testing already underway. If you would like to participate in this current trial, please contact Von Welch at vwelch@indiana.edu.

Your organization should begin planning for the effort involved in the transition. Specifically, please note the following action items that will need to be taken:

* Registration Authorities (RAs) and Grid Admins will need to register with the OSG PKI. This will involve making a formal request for the service and accepting the OSG/DigiCert agreement. A draft process can be found here: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Operations/OSGPKITrustedAgent

* In the new OSG PKI, the role of the Grid Admin will change. Virtual Organization (VO) RAs will approve users in their VO and Grid Admins will approve hosts in a given domain (e.g., iu.edu).

* In the new service, users identities (distinguished names) will change. VOs will need to prepare for the extra effort for handling this change. For example, VOs will need to be prepared to re-register users in the Virtual Organization Management System (VOMS) or other access control mechanisms, if applicable.

* The DigiCert CA used by the new OSG PKI is in the IGTF CA distribution starting with the January 2012 v1.44 distribution. VOs and Sites should ensure they update as soon as possible. Please see: https://dist.eugridpma.info/distribution/igtf/current/accredited/

* Beginning in October 2012, training and other resources will be available to help organizations prepare for the service transition. We will be sending an update to this mail list when training is scheduled or otherwise available. Please contact Von (vwelch@indiana.edu) if you have interest in participating in this training so we can plan appropriate venues and delivery mechanisms. For more information, visit: https://opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Security/DigiCertTrainingPlan

Von is also currently hosting weekly calls on Tuesdays at 3pm ET focused on details of the transition. All are invited to join these calls to discuss your needs and to learn the progress of the roll-out. Call-in details can be found below and on the OSG PKI Planning Website, which provides up to date information on all aspects of the transition.

Ruth Pordes (ruth@fnal.gov) and Von (vwelch@indiana.edu) together with our ESnet staff are available at anytime for individual conversations about the service to answer any questions you may have. We will be contacting each of you in the coming weeks to schedule a one-on-one conversation to answer questions and ensure your transition planning is underway. We look forward to speaking with you soon.

Regards,
Von Welch
OSG PKI Transition Project Lead

For the latest information:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Security/OSGCATransition2012

Conference call details:
Weekly calls Tuesday at 3pm ET
Phone Number: (800) 940-6112 or (812) 856-3600
Participant PIN: 001174#

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

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

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, September 11th, 2012 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 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.


MyOSG 2.1

ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
CPU count will be increased to 2 on myosg1/2
remove osg-xsede from the status board
Minor cosmetic updates on VO summary / resource list
Updated stylesheet for various error pages
(patched) Fixed the IE base url issue
(patched) Fixed broken status map url issue


Reports / Installed Capacity Report 1.0-12

Adding sites supported by USCMS_Tier2 Support Center to the report.
Moving report script from OIM to reports.grid.iu.edu
Add deprecation message to RSV reports.


RSV-Client

Rebuild VM instance using the latest install script which uses the RSV v2 RPMs.


OIM 3.6

ITB version can be tested via https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu
Added display for log based on composite key (not through topology class yet) [OIM-23]
PKI / Added domain name validator for GridAdmin [OSGPKI-89]
PKI / Added search capability for user/host certificates [OSGPKI-105]
Added check for session destruction to report private key deletion [OSGPKI-80]
Improved the URL handling for login/out.
PKI / Differentiated the behavior of user certificate approval process between new approval and renew approval.
PKI / Reset CSR when user certificate renewal is requested.
PKI / Added serial number to log comment
PKI / Updated label from Serial ID to Serial Number
Updated the Google Map API from v2 to v3.
PKI / Added listing for "certificate I approve" for user/host certificates.
Updated returned content type to application/json for all REST APIs.
Removed error message in case of missing session for message (could happen on error page)
PKI / Removed the 500 error code reporting of the OIM Rest API error return.
PKI / Improved the way secure / guest URLs were composed.
Made IP address to be displayed at all time
PKI / Updated cert-retrieve-new to osg-cert-retrieve based on recent name change.
PKI / Added VO name in the title of GOC ticket generated for user certificate request
PKI / Added more checks for various error condition during host cert request.
PKI / Made read-only GridAdmin page for non PKI staff.
PKI / Added GridAdmin & RA enrollment request buttons.
PKI / Added capability to assign VO managers
PKI / Enabled user cert revoke capability
Implemented logout action to invalidate current session.
(patched) removed anti-session spoofing mechanism.
Other minor bug fixes


All Services

We will be updating all RHEL 5 and RHEL 6 hosts to the latest Red Hat packages, and we will be updating the firmware on physical hosts where updates are available. This will require reboots.
DOEGrids host certificates on ITB services will be changed to DOEGrids host certificates with SHA-2 signatures.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

OSG Software version 3.1.8 has been released

Hello,

We're pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.8. This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for Scientific Linux 5 and 6, CentOS 5 and 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The changes in this release include changes that affect the client, and the compute element:

Condor 7.8.2 is a recommended security update.
A new version of the Gratia probe that fixes various bugs
A new version of osg-cleanup that fixes a bug that prevented it from cleaning up all appropriate files.
A new version of lcmaps that makes it work better with Condor. Please note that you will get an updated lcmaps configuration file that you need to merge with your existing configuration. (/etc/lcmaps.db)

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release318

Need help? Let us know: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, August 14th at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, August 14th, 2012 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 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 3.4
ITB version can be tested via https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu
Limited availability for OSG PKI user interface


MyOSG 2.0
ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
Updated look & feel.
Compacted various pages to fit more information.


GOC-TX 1.26.2
ITB version can be tested via https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu
Updated FNAL/ServiceNow SOAP client to the latest version which is to be released on 8/10 at FNAL.


GOC Ticket 1.55
ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu
Added campus research club request form (prototype)


Blogs
ITB version can be tested via http://blogs-itb.grid.iu.edu
Added Erik Erlandson Blog


Installed Capacity Report 1.0-10
Adding sites supported by USCMS_Tier2 Support Center to the report.
Moving report script from OIM to reports.grid.iu.edu


VM Maintenance

We will be reorganizing the files on the VM hosts to improve performance -- most have already been done; this is the last group of changes. On Tuesday, August 7, only ITB VMs will be affected (and then only data-itb, display-itb, gratiaweb-itb, myosg-itb, rsv-itb, ticket-itb, and tx-itb). All other ITB VMs have already been reorganized. On Tuesday, August 14, the last production VMs will be reorganized. The only public-facing services experiencing downtime will be display.grid.iu.edu, tx.grid.iu.edu, and twiki.grid.iu.edu. Ticket.grid.iu.edu may experience degradation of service due to load but will remain online. Production downtime should not exceed 20 minutes.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

OSG Software version 3.1.7 has been released

Hello,

We're pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.7. This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for Scientific Linux 5 and 6, CentOS 5 and 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The changes in this release include changes that primarily affect the OSG CE, the Bestman SE, and the HDFS SE. Changes include:

Several bug fixes, especially:
* Fixed missing dependencies for Bestman2
* Fixed lcmaps integration for xrootd
* Fixed GridFTP HDFS integration so files are properly deleted when requested.
Updated software, especially:
* New version of glideinwms, 2.6.0
* Condor job manager now respects max_wall_time RSL parameter

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release317

Need help? Let us know: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We look forward to your feedback on this new release.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, July 24th at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, June 24th, 2012 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 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.

GOC Ticket Synchronizer (GOC-TX) 1.26.1

ITB version can be tested via https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu
Updated default value for FNAL/SNOW Reported Source to “Direct Input”.
Fixed FNAL/SNOW mapping for pending status (was unknown previously)
Updated default assignment group for SNOW to be “Service Desk”.
Replaced GGUS/concerned VO to GOC/SC conversion with GGUS/notified site to GOC/SC [GOCTX-21]


MyOSG 1.53

ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
Added campus grid site marks on RSV Status Map (to be exposed via OSG Display)


OSG Display 1.0.10

ITB version can be tested via http://display-itb.grid.iu.edu/
Requesting MyOSG to render Campus Grid site icons on Status Map tab


Blogs

ITB version can be tested via http://blogs-itb.grid.iu.edu
Added OSG Security Blog


OIM 3.3

ITB version can be tested via https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu
Added capability to display all DNs associated with the user contact, and show which cert was used to login.
Added email display for contacts in contact editor.
Various updates related to OSG PKI certificate interface.


TWiki

ITB version can be tested via https://twiki.grid.iu.edu
Fixed the Mime type issue for MS Office documents


All Services

We will be updating all RHEL 5 and RHEL 6 hosts to the latest Red Hat packages, and we will be updating the firmware on physical hosts where updates are available. This will require reboots.

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Needs Your Opportunistic Cycles

OSG Resource Providers,

The LSST VO (http://www.lsst.org/lsst/) is looking for cycles. LSST is currently running on OSG resources using the North West Indiana Campus Grid (NWICG) VO as an umbrella VO for their activities. Eventually, we would like for all of the LSST work to be accounted to the LSST VO. Please take a look to see if your resource is enabled to allow LSST VO jobs, and if it is not please consider enabling it. Below is a description of the application. LSST jobs run already on the OSG and the LSST simulation group can work closely with the OSG support group and the resource providers in case of need. If you'd like to help please enable the LSST VO: we are happy to provide assistance if help is needed.

Thank you in advance for your participation,
Rob Quick
OSG Operations Coordinator

Gabriele Garzoglio
OSG Support team

John Peterson
LSST Photon Simulator Coordinator


About LSST simulations
-----------
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will image a large area of the sky with each exposure. This will help it in accomplishing its science missions:
1.Probing dark energy and dark matter
2.Taking an inventory of the solar system
3.Exploring the transient optical sky
4.Mapping the Milky Way

One of the main features of the telescope is a 3.2 Gigapixel camera, which is anticipated to produce about 15TB of uncompressed image data a night. Another is its large mirror, which allows the telescope to quickly detect faint objects in a large area of the sky.

The OSG user support team and the LSST simulation group have collaborated in 2010 to port the LSST image simulation application to the OSG. Today, LSST simulation jobs "overspill" to OSG from Purdue whenever additional cycles are needed. Simulated images are used to refine and validate the data analysis software used to accomplish LSST scientific missions. For one exposure the software simulates the path of 1011 photons from their sources, through the atmosphere, the telescope optics, and to the CCDs.


LSST Simulation Execution on the OSG
--------------------------

The client supports following important features:

* integration with glideinWMS
* automatic recovery of jobs through glideinWMS
* full support for eviction of jobs, automatic suspend and restart of the job
* ~30 MB data stage in / stage out per job without a need to prestage data at sites
* 1-5 hours per job
* the "unit" of computation is a "visit" of the sky i.e. two 15 sec exposures of all 189 camera CCDs i.e. 378 jobs. This takes ~1000 CPU hours.


Benefits of running LSST Simulation on your Site
--------------------------------------

LSST simulation runs approximately monthly "bursts" of job "overspilling" from Purdue to OSG and other resources. These jobs will utilize idles cycles at your site that might otherwise not be utilized. At the same time, through the integration with GlideinWMS, the jobs will not flood any one site.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

OSG Software version 3.1.6 has been released

Hello,

We're pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.6. This is the new
OSG Software distributed via RPMs for Scientific Linux 5 and 6, CentOS
5 and 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The changes in this
release include changes that affect RSV installations.

- A bug has been fixed that was introduced in RSV 3.7.2 installations
that affected the use of user proxies
- The RSV log rotation configuration has been adjusted to not affect
global log rotation behavior

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release316

Need help? Let us know:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We look forward to your feedback on this new release.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

OSG 3.1.5 Has Been Released

Hello,

We're pleased to announce OSG Software version . This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for Scientific Linux 5 and 6, CentOS 5 and 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The changes in this release include changes that affect the client, compute element, RSV, and Bestman2 based storage elements.

* Security update to java (java 1.6.0_33)
* CVMFS now included
* Updates to bestman2 and xrootd
* Updates to the CE including osg-configure, globus gram jobmanager updates for condor
* Condor updated to 7.8.1
* RSV updates and bug fixes
* GIP updates
* Updated VO packages

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release

Need help? Let us know: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We look forward to your feedback on this new release.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

OSG 1.2.29 Has Been Released

******************************
OSG 1.2.29 Update Notification
******************************

Date: June 26, 2012

Affected Components

The following components are affected:

* Java

Summary

This release contains the following updates to address security
vulnerabilities:

* Java 1.6.0_33

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 2.0.0p36 release underlying this
release can be found here ( http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/2.0.0/release-p36.html ).

New VO Pakcage - COUPP Addition and LSST Update

A new VO package is now available. This package adds the COUPP VO and makes an address change to the LSST VO in the gums.template.

A detailed list of changes is available at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Operations/PackageV42

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

This will also be part of the OSG 3.1.5 Software Release, which will be released later today. Instructions will be available at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/ReleaseNotes

Please see tickets at:
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/12008
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/12275

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, June 26th at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 at 13:00 UTC.
The GOC reserves 8 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.

MyOSG 1.52

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

Fixed an issue where status map's anchor parameters aren’t sent to igoogle gadget
Added more CampusGrid markers [DISPLAY-11]

GOC Ticket 1.54

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

Updated BDII service detail to avoid user from submitting critical ticket by accident.

BDII


Updating cache-resource-list with the latest MyOSG URL. Removing condition to have CE service in order for BDII to process incoming data.

Repo


Installing Multi-SAN https certificate in order to support repo.opensciencegrid.org under HTTPS.

All services

All service hosts will have operating system updates. Reboots will be required and short outages should be expected.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

OSG CA Distribution 1.29 Release Notification

A new CA bundle v. 1.29 was released today (6/12/2012). OSG sites using the CA RPM packages must run yum update in order to install the latest package ( |e.g. yum update osg-ca-certs). Without this update, RSV probes will report your site in a "WARNING" status. If your site is currently in this status, you must apply the yum update manually ASAP. RSV probes are configured to switch from a warning status to a failure status in 48 hours. The failure status will cause WLCG sites appear unavailable to WLCG.

You can check the status of your site here:

http://tinyurl.com/c33w84g

If your site does not appear, it is not in warning status.

CORRECTION: OSG 3.1.4 Has Been Released

From the Software Team, a corrected release notice:

Hello,

We're pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.4. This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for Scientific Linux 5 and 6, CentOS 5 and 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The changes in this release are:

Updated IGTF CA cert packages
Updated OSG CA cert packages
Updated globus gram gatekeeper packages to address memory leaks

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release314

Need help? Let us know: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We look forward to your feedback on this new release.

- Suchandra
--------------------------------------
Suchandra Thapa
Open Science Grid Software Team
sthapa@ci.uchicago.edu
http://opensciencegrid.org

OSG 3.1.4 Has Been Released

Hello,

We're pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.4. This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for Scientific Linux 5 and 6, CentOS 5 and 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The changes in this release are:

Updated IGTF CA cert packages
Updated OSG CA cert packages
Updated globus gram gatekeeper packages to address memory leaks

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release304

Need help? Let us know: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We look forward to your feedback on this new release.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 at 13:00 UTC.

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 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
ITB version is now available for testing at https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu

Synchronizing with OIM-ITB on various PKI related tables, entities to assist PKI development.

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

Bar graphs show 15 bins (days) rather than the claimed 14 [GRATIAWEB-17]

MyOSG 1.51
ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu

Adding CampusGrid markers on Status Map (experimental)
Fixed an issue on the tinyurl generator for Chrome on OSX.
Fixed StatusMap export issue with netvibses
Added FQDN on current status page and ticket submission links [MYOSG-47]
Added DN information for contact list, and grouped contacts by name

GOC Ticket 1.53
ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu

Added Campus Grid VO submission form [TICKET-52]
Added capability to insert ticket description template (used for CampusGrid)
Added email validator for Footprints model [TICKET-54]
Updated captcha to reCaptcha.

System Administration

DNS change for repo.grid.iu.edu
Rename repo.grid.iu.edu to vip-repo.grid.iu.edu (don’t change IP!)
Setup CNAME repo.grid.iu.edu which points to vip-repo.grid.iu.edu
(Soichi) Reconfigure LVS for repo to use vip-repo.grid.iu.edu
Install SAN https certificate (for both .grid.iu.edu & .opensciencegrid.org) on following services

myosg1/2
ticket1/2
oim

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

OSG Software Version 3.1.3

Hello,

We're pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.3. This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for Scientific Linux 5 and 6, CentOS 5 and 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The changes in this release are:

* We have updated to the latest version of the IGTF-accredited CA certificates.
* Bug fix for GridFTP which acted as wrong user when an authorized user account doesn't exist.

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release313

Need help? Let us know: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We look forward to your feedback on this new release.

-Alain Roy

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 at 13:00 UT

MyOSG 1.50

ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
Replaced link for OSG Software Cache with that of OSG Repository (repo)
Updated GOC Ticket URL to point to the consolidated submission form.
Rounded number passed to Google chart in order to avoid a case where chart URL is too long to be accepted.
Made AR metric controller to run more efficient SQL to avoid out of memory issue.
MyOSG / RSVProcess 1.19

Rebuilding service to increase disk space from 8G to 128G [MYOSG-43]
Added resource group id & previous status to the AMQP event posted for status change.
(patched) Added code to declare AMQP exchange that publisher is publishing to.
Blogs

ITB version is now available for testing at http://blogs-itb.grid.iu.edu/campus
Establishing new blog space (/campus) which contains campus grid specific blogs.
GratiaWeb

ITB version is now available for testing at https://gratiaweb-itb.grid.iu.edu/gratia/
Enabling https access (InCommon Cert) [GOCADMIN-136 & GRATIAWEB-14]
OSG Repo

Updating DNS / LVS configuration to make it more standard.
OS Updates

We will be updating all RHEL 5 and RHEL 6 servers to the latest packages from Red Hat. This will require reboots.
Virtual Machine Hosts

VM host “vm01” is being updated to the same version of VMware as all other VMware hosts. As this will take place at the same time as OS updates that require reboots, this will not make a noticeable difference in downtime.

OSG Software version 3.1.2 has been released

Hello,

We're pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.2. This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for Scientific Linux 5 and 6, CentOS 5 and 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

This release includes various Globus fixes that affect the GRAM job manager, including a fix for a major bug where it occasionally deleted job directories, and a fix for a memory leak. Also included is a new production release of the Gratia services, and packaging updates to the GridFTP HDFS plugin and GUMS.

The xrootd-lcmaps-0.0.4-5 RPMs have been removed due to dependencies on software that isn't ready yet.

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release312

Need help? Let us know:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We look forward to your feedback on this new release.

-Matyas Selmeci
OSG Software Team

Thursday, May 3, 2012

OSG Software version 3.1.1 has been released

Hello,

We're pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.1. This is the new OSG
Software distributed via RPMs for Scientific Linux 5 and 6, CentOS 5 and
6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

The only change in this release is a rollback of the
globus-gram-job-manager package distributed in 3.1.0 to the previous
version, due to a critical bug. Although labeled 13.34r23, this
version is equivalent to upstream version 13.23, which was distributed
in release 3.0.9 of the OSG Software stack.

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release311

Need help? Let us know:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We look forward to your feedback on this new release.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, May 8th at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 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 3.1
  • ITB version is now available for testing at https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu
  • Fixed various minor issues with bootstrap & responsive CSS.
  • Added IP address to OIM log
  • Added composite primary key field to OIM log for better grouping and searching of log records.
  • Fixed the way user context was stored, and optimized DB connection pool.
  • Removed Footprints ID field from VO table.

MyOSG 1.49
  • ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
  • Operations Status Overview: Added GOC-VOMS and alphabetized the lists
  • Updated the “Report Bug” link to the new GOC Ticket form
  • Added check for null DN ID for GOC event viewer

GOC Ticket 1.52
  • ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu
  • Stopped setting originating / destination VO information.
  • Removed originating VO selector from ticket submitter.
  • Hidden ticket metadata from public view, and replaced originating / destination VO, ticket ID section with metadata display for ticket viewer.

GOC Ticket Synchronizer (GOC-TX) 1.26
  • ITB version can be tested via https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu
  • Removed mapping of GGUS VO field to GOC’s Dest/Orig Footprints ID.

OSG Repo
  • ITB version is now available for testing at http://repo-itb.grid.iu.edu
  • Disk space to be increased from 16G to 128GB. 

Misc.
  • www.grid.iu.edu will be retired
  • An idle VM host will be moved from Indianapolis production rack to Bloomington production rack.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

OSG Software version 3.1.0 has been released

Hello,

We're pleased to announced OSG Software version 3.1.0. This is the new
OSG Software distributed via RPMs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and
6-compatible distributions.

This is the first full release of the software stack for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6-compatible distributions, including support for the
CE, VOMS, client, and SE. Also included are updates for RSV to 3.7.0,
and updates to glexec, lcmaps and associated packages based on the
latest versions released for EMI, as well as various bugfixes to
Globus and other components.

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release310

Need help? Let us know:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We look forward to your feedback on this new release.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

New VO Package - LSST VO and ALICE Update

A new VO package is now available. This package adds the LSST VO and makes an address change to the ALICE VOMS.

A detailed list of changes is available at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Operations/PackageV41

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

This will also be part of the OSG 3.1.0 Software Release, which will be released later today. Instructions will be available at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/ReleaseNotes

Please see tickets at:
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/11723
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/11194

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Tuesday, April 24th at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 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 3.0

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

*Enabling http access for guest user access. Redefined user types and redesigned the way user types are discovered according to the apache configuration changes.
*Added RA/Sponsor in VO as a placeholder to store information for upcoming PKI update.
*Replaced Footprints SOAP API with GOC Ticket REST API.
*Added osg-security-team@OPENSCIENCEGRID.ORG to VO registration form’s CC list.
*Updated stylesheet (bootstrap) and page layouts on various pages.

GOC Ticket 1.51

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

*Removed http to https forwarding (in preparation for oim v3 style user login system)
*Refactored the way footprints assignees were verified during ticket submission
*Refactored & improved GOC local access checker which does not require specific IP addresses to be configured.
*Added GOC local access test for REST API. Added open and submit APIs
*Fixed various attachment handling issues (removing some characters (#, and &) from the attached file name; increased the maximum file size to 10M; fixed the thumbnail request URL)
*(patched) Fixed the issue that resource/vo fblist on consolidated submitter doesn't repopulate after reload
*(patched) removed unnecessary loading of “careof” feature for non-admin user.

GOC Ticket Synchronizer (GOC-TX) 1.25

Update is scheduled on Wednesday 4/25 during GGUS update at CERN.

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

*Updated to the latest GGUS WSDL. Removed setStartRecord & setMaxLimit functions

OSG Display

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

*Updating OSG_Display_Data-1.0.3-2 which improves SQL query performance in order to avoid SQL query pileup issue on the Gratia Db [DISPLAY-7]

All Services

*Updates to RHEL packages will be applied, but this will not require reboots.
*Services which use Tomcat5 will need to be restarted due to a security update, but this should cause only a momentary interruption in service.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

OSG Software version 3.0.10 has been released

Hello,

We're pleased to announced OSG Software version 3.0.10. This is the new
OSG Software distributed via RPMs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and
6-compatible distributions.

This release contains updated OSG and IGTF CA certificate packages.

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3010

You can ask support via the usual channels. We look forward to your
feedback on this new release.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

UPDATE: DOEGrids Certificate Service Problems

On Monday, April 2, 2012, users started experiencing problems renewing existing certificates and obtaining service certificates from DOEGrids CA. As of approximately 8pm EDT, April 3, 2012, this problem was corrected. Users are now able to renew certificates and obtain service certificates as expected using both the certificate scripts and the web interface.

Please inform us immediately if you have any problems.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, April 10th at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 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.

Server Moves
Two servers previously hosting retired services will be removed from the production rack and moved to the ITB rack for re-purposing.

IP Changes

Some GOC servers have been moved to a new, larger IP range already, but the remaining ones will be moved. They will continue to respond to both old and new IP addresses until it is certain that the DNS is directing all traffic to the new addresses. This process should be transparent to end users.
MyOSG 1.48

ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
Upgraded Google Map API from version 2 to version 3 [MYOSG-14]

OSG Repo (repo.grid.iu.edu)

ITB version is now available for testing at http://repo-itb.grid.iu.edu
Downgrading to EPEL version of mash in order to reduce the repo's dependency on custom software, since the patch is no longer necessary.

UPDATE: DOEGrids Certificate Service Problems

There are no problems with requesting new service and user certificates to the DOEgrids web interface.
The gridadmins who need new service certs: use the cert-request script to generate a new request. This works fine. Later the gridadmin or an RA Agent can log into the DOEGrids web interface and approve the request via the browser interface (https://pki1.doegrids.org:8100/).

For user certificates: request a new certificate for the end user. Fill out the form at https://software.grid.iu.edu/cert/certreg.php. Make sure to fill out the "Expired Certificate (Keeping your Old DN) (Optional) " field. You should put your existing DN in this field so that you can still get the same certificate. This will make sure VOMS registration and other registrations will work without a hitch.

We will continue to debug what is wrong with renewal interfaces.

DOEGrids Certificate Service Problems

At approximately 10pm EDT on Monday, April 2, 2012, users began experiencing problems obtaining new certificates and renewing existing ones from DOEGrids servers. This is affecting both the certificate scripts and the web interface.

The problem is currently ongoing and a ticket has been opened with ESNet. We will update the community with any information as it comes to us.

Friday, March 30, 2012

OSG Software version 3.0.9 has been released

We're pleased to announced OSG Software version 3.0.9. This is the new
OSG Software distributed via RPMs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and
6-compatible distributions.

This release is primarily a bug fix release and includes fixes for
Globus GRAM, Gratia Probes, OSG-Configure and OSG-Cleanup. This
release also includes an update to Xrootd 3.1.1.

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release309

You can ask support via the usual channels. We look forward to your
feedback on this new release.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

www.opensciencegrid.org not responding

During today's maintenance, the www.opensciencegrid.org domain name's DNS change request was not fulfilled by the end of business. Because of this, www.opensciencegrid.org is currently not pointing to the correct IP address and is therefore unavailable. All content on www.opensciencegrid.org can be accessed by going to https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/ .

A separate reminder request for a DNS update has been submitted and the DNS entry will be updated tomorrow morning.

We apologize about this inconvenience.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, March 27th, 2012 at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, March 27th, 2012 at 13:00 UTC.The GOC reserves 8 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.

All Services
All hosts, physical and virtual, will be updated with the latest security patches from the OS provider; this will require system restarts
All physical hosts will be updated with the latest firmware versions from the hardware provider


OIM 2.43
ITB version is now available for testing at https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu

Added "show non-editable view" buttons on edit pages. Added "edit" button on view-only pages.
Fixed the missing contact information bug [OIM-30]
Added LogID to the AMQP published event log


MyOSG 1.47
ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu

Added JIRA and OSG-XSEDE to the status overview page
Updated miscevent to show user name looked up from DNID
Updated GOC Realtime event page to include OIM LogID and made cometd url configurable (used by miscevent)
(patched) Fixed the SQL join issue causing non-oim user contact to not be shown on various contact information sections.

GOC Ticket 1.50
ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu

Added a new consolidated ticket submission form.
Changed the home page to new consolidated ticket submission form.
Replaced last remaining calls for split() with explode(). Added GOC-TX ID “fp114_rt1” for TX ID lookup function in order to silence google hit
Updated the sorting algorithm for quick description field [TICKET-23]
Updated to DataTables-1.9.0 for ticket navigator.
Fixed the “accessible” typo [TICKET-40]
Fixed the double click issue on fb list
(patched) enabling captcha for all public submission forms

GOC Ticket Synchronizer (GOC-TX) 1.24
ITB version is now available for testing via https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu

Added new jssecacerts for ggus test instance. Removed the remedy config from factory
Updated snow incident stub (adding u_family)
Added new status conversion logic for GGUS:closed > GOC:Closed
(Patched) Fixed the issue where Attachment synchronization could enter incorrect sync. records during reverse ticket update events.
Removed unnecessary code from ServiceNowAccessor
Change the timing of inserting source-to-destination attachment sync record.
(Patched) patched null assignment group issue for ServiceNow

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

DocDB upgrade Wednesday, March 21, 7 a.m. - 8 a.m. (CDT - Chicago)

All times following are CDT (Chicago).

From Fermilab's Service Desk:

============================================

Hello,

On Wednesday, March 21 beginning at approximately 7:15 a.m. staff members will upgrade DocDB to the latest version, r8.7.16. You will be able to read documents during this time, however, we recommend you do not administer DocDB or update or create new documents, as you might experience some odd behavior.

Once the DocDB upgrade is complete, we will patch and reboot the computer that hosts DocDB. This part of the upgrade will begin at approximately 7:40 a.m. and will include an outage expected to last between five and ten minutes.

DocDB r8.7.16 changes include:

1. Corrects some of the issues introduced to fix cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the current version that cause special characters such as "&" to display incorrectly.

2. Increases the length of the "related documents" field to 2048 characters long. This should allow you to enter several hundred related documents.

3. Fixes an incompatibility between the operating system and the zip command that prevented the download of document files into a zip archive.



Fermilab Service Desk
http://servicedesk.fnal.gov
servicedesk@fnal.gov
(630) 840-2345


============================================

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

MonALISA down due to hardware issue

The MonALISA service hosted at the Grid Operations Center (monalisa.grid.iu.edu) is down due to hardware issues. Service stopped responding at approximately 15:30 UTC (11:30 EDT).

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Indiana University Scheduled Network Maintenance

On Monday, March 12 and Wednesday March 14, from 09:00 UTC to 11:00 UTC, Indiana University network engineers will be performing maintenance. There may be a brief interruption on all OSG Operations Services hosted at IU during the maintenance window.

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, March 13 at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 4 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.

MyOSG

Added JIRA and OSG-XSEDE, removed OSG-homepage from http://myosg.grid.iu.edu/miscstatus/index?datasource=status&count_sg_1=on&count_active=on&count_enabled=on

Software

Updated the instructions at http://software.grid.iu.edu/

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Certificate Update on OSG TWiki

At 15:00 EST OSG Operations will be updating the certificate for twiki.grid.iu.edu, twiki.opensciencegrid.org, www.opensciencegrid.org, and opensciencegrid.org to complete the maintenance and webpage move started yesterday. This operation will take an Apache restart, downtime should be less than one minute.

OSG Software version 3.0.8 has been released

We're pleased to announced OSG Software version 3.0.8. This is the new OSG
Software distributed via RPMs for Scientific Linux 5, CentOS 5, and Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This release also includes the worker node
client packages for Scientific Linux 6, CentOS 6, and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6.

The RHEL 5-compatible packages have the following changes:

1. The Oracle JDK has been updated to version 1.6.0_31. *Note:* This
version fixes critical security flaws and we recommend upgrading
to it as soon as you can.
2. glite-ce-monitor, osg-configure, osg-cert-scripts, rsv-consumer
bugfixes.
3. gratia-probes bugfixes for PBS and Condor probes; can be
started/stopped as a service.
4. More logging has been added to osg-system-profiler.
5. glideinwms packages have been upgraded to 2.5.5.

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release308

Also, we have found a critical bug in the
globus-gram-job-manager-13.14-1.2.osg.el5 package that was distributed
as part of the previous release. We do not have a fix ready yet, so we
currently recommend that if you have that version of the package (which
you can verify by typing "rpm -q globus-gram-job-manager" and comparing

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the versions), that you downgrade to the previous version of that
package by typing "yum downgrade globus-gram-job-manager". The highest
working version is 13.5-14.osg.

You can ask support via the usual channels. We look forward to your
feedback on this new release.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

OSG 1.2.28 Update Notification

******************************
OSG 1.2.28 Update Notification
******************************

Date: February 28, 2012

Affected Components

The following components are affected:

* Mysql
* Java

Summary

This release contains the following updates to address security
vulnerabilities:

* Mysql 5.0.95
* Java 1.6.0_31

This update includes updated versions of mysql and java to
address security vulnerabilities.

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 2.0.0p35 release underlying this
release can be found here ( http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/2.0.0/release-p35.html ).

OSG Home Pages Moved

During today's Operational Service upgrade the OSG Home page was moved from it's location on an externally hosted web server to the OSG TWiki. The address www.opensciencegrid.org now resolves to it's new home on the OSG TWiki. We are aware this site is currently showing warnings due to the certificate name (twiki.grid.iu.edu) being aliased to www.opensciencegrid.org. We will correct this with a new certificate within the next few business days. Please send mail to goc@opensciencegrid.org to report any other issues you observe due to this change.

Ticket Exchange Attachment Interface Available

The ability to exchange attachments on GOC-GGUS tickets
has been restored as of 10:00 (eastern) 28/Feb . All other
ticket exchange functionality remains unchanged and operating
as before. Please contact the OSG Operations team if you
encounter and problems.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

OSG Software version 3.0.7 has been released

Hello,

It has come to our attention that during the maintenance release on 2/14 we announced the 1.2.27 update, but did not announce the 3.0.7 update. Here is the update notification for version 3.0.7.

I'm pleased to announced OSG Software version 3.0.7. This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for Scientific Linux 5, CentOS 5, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

1. CA certificate packages have been updated.
2. Bugfixes are available for Bestman2, Condor, Globus-Gatekeeper,
Globus-GRAM-Job-Manager and RSV.

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release307

You can ask support via the usual channels. We look forward to your feedback on this new release.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, February 28 at 14:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 14:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 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.

opensciencegrid.org

Ownership of the opensciencegrid.org domain will change from FNAL to Indiana University. We anticipate no outages during this changeover.
OIM 2.42

ITB version is now available for testing at https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu
Added more models for oim log [OIM-4]
Removed unnecessary GUI type field from service form.
Added ReportDataServlet which uses displays cached error report for users authorized with action: read_report.error
Added miscservicedetails class for service detail. Fixed logics to validate & load service details records in case service detail gui is not yet provided.
Added dn and comment information to oim event publisher
Added code to declare exchange (topic) before publishing
Added java mysql/j connector to /lib
MyOSG 1.46

ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
Added experimental GOC realtime event page.
Fixed the z-index issue for "Double click to see all" button on fb_list
(patched) Escaped the single quote characters on the map overlay icon
MyOSG/RSVProcess 1.18
Added resource group id to the event posted for status change
Added previous status to published event
Jira

Installed Service Monitor
Set default time zone in setenv.sh in order to suppress warnings in the log
TWiki

Secured attachment behind /viewfile controller by apache RewriteRule for all /twiki/pub contents.
Blogs (OSG Planet)

Installed awstats
Software Cache

Enabled LVS

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

OSG 1.2.27 Update Notification

******************************
OSG 1.2.27 Update Notification
******************************

Date: February 14, 2012

Affected Components

The following components are affected:

* Curl
* Apache

Summary

This release contains the following updates to address security
vulnerabilities:

* curl (advisory ( http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20120124B.html ))
* Apache httpd 2.2.22 (vulnerabilities/changelog ( http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.2.22 ))

This update includes a security fix for curl to correct a
security vulnerability when using curl is using openssl. In
addition, Apache httpd has been updated to address multiple
security vulnerabilities.

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 2.0.0p34 release underlying this
release can be found here ( http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/2.0.0/release-p34.html ).

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 at 14:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 at 14:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 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.

TWiki

Installing Explicit Numbering Plugin (http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/ExplicitNumberingPlugin)
Updating X509 SSLRequire configuration for /bin/configure

GOC-TX 1.22

Added empty string check for GGUS’s affected site to GOC resource converter.
Gratiaweb

Add GRID filter to Glidein Graphs [GRATIAWEB-7]
Change Glidein Title to include Campus Grid [METRICS-8]
Repo

Updating directory structure to contain version (3.0) and EL version (el5&el6). All structural changes are backward compatible.

Software
https://software.grid.iu.edu/cert/certrenew.php update
CA distribution to version 1.26
MyOSG/RSVProcess 1.17

Added AMQP event posting code in case of resource status change while generating the current status cache
GOC Ticket 1.49

ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu
(Patched) Added logic to add SC/VO ID for VO form.
Added logic to convert DOS formatted notification content to UNIX format before signing the content.
Various minor bug fixes related to php53 upgrade.

All Hosts — OS Updates

We will be installing updated packages from the OS provider on all physical and virtual hosts, including updates to the kernel. There will be downtime during the day for most services, but in most cases it should not be more than 15 minutes. In the case of the CEMon-BDII aggregator service, we will use the DNS round-robin to shift traffic away from the server undergoing maintenance, so no downtime is required, but there may be some degradation of service during this time.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Ticket Exchange Attachment Interface Unavailable

OSG Operations has discovered a problem with file attachments to tickets originating at GGUS. This problem was introduced during a recent update to the GGUS ticketing system which caused an inability to access the SOAP attachment interface. Support tickets have been opened at (https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/11560 and https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=78844) and direct communication with GGUS developers has been initiated. This only affects file attachments to tickets, all other ticket exchange functionality is normal.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

OSG 1.2.26 Software Release

OSG 1.2.26 Update Notification

Affected Components

The following components are affected:

* Gratia PBS probes
* Tomcat

Summary

This release contains the following updates:

* Tomcat 5.5.35
* Gratia-Common-Probe 1.07.02e-2.osg

This update includes a fix for a DOS vulnerability ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750521 ) in tomcat.
This update also provides a new version of the Gratia probes that
fixes a critical accounting error.

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 2.0.0p33 release underlying this
release can be found here ( http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/2.0.0/release-p33.html ).

Problems Accessing opensciencegrid.org Pages - GOC Ticket # 11521

OSG Collaborators,

Another outage with Tilted Planet, which hosts www.opensciencegrid.org, caused the OSG webpage to be unavailable. We have been in touch with Tilted Planet who has linked this to continued network issue. The affected OSG webpages was unavailable from 17:00:07 UTC to 18:40:05 UTC.

Thank you for your patience.

Please see ticket 11521 at:
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/11521

Monday, January 23, 2012

Problems Accessing opensciencegrid.org Pages

OSG Collaborators,

A major outage with Tilted Planet, which hosts www.opensciencegrid.org, caused the OSG webpage to be unavailable. We have been in touch with Tilted Planet who has linked this to a network issue. The affected OSG webpages have resumed normal operations as of 19:30 UTC.

Thank you for your patience.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, January 24th 2012 at 14:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 at 14:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 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.

Server rack maintenance
Machines hosting ITB instances will be removed from the single rack currently containing all OSG operations servers. They will be moved to newly obtained space in a second rack. This move will address power issues in the current rack. No outages of production services are anticipated.
RSV-SAM (rsv.grid.iu.edu) upgrade (Take 3)

We will upgrade RSV-SAM system to the latest version. This update will remove various DB dependencies and fix bugs discovered within the last 12 month. It will also add new fields requested by CERN SAM team for new SAM.
RSV reporting

RSV-gridview reports will be discontinued. RSV-MyWLCG reporting is already in place.
Remove references to t2.unl (RSVSAM-12)
GratiaWeb

Switching from neb-koji-rpm.repo to repo/osg-release repo [METRICS-6]
OIM 2.41

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

Configuration change will be made for USCMS support center to switch to GOC-TX as the ticket exchange system on 1/26 (not 1/24).
Updated StaticConfig class to use Property config instead of XML + predefined parameters.
Added Event Publisher, and OIM log to publish events to GOC event server.
Added "admin" check for disabled (removed) contacts
Added sorting code for authorization matrix page
Added various authentication checks for toplogy page.
Consolidated Facility, Site, Resource Group, and Resource list to a Topology page (requires view_topology action authentication)
Moved the OIM report out of admin area into a separate menu item (requires "read_report" action authentication)
Fixed the bug where adding new contact will cause null pointer exception on contact association view. Moved some overly verbose field descriptions to tooltips on various pages
Removed Ex. assignment ID editor from VO editor
Added ability to apply template parameter anytime before render() call.
Added ability to include custom CSS file
Renamed the resource model's getAll function to be consistent with others.
Moved the help content to home page and removed the help page.
Added extra links from home page to show all entities (just to make it more obvious why they aren't seeing "all")
Removed unnecessary page titles from various pages.
Added link to register downtime & resource group from the resource edit page.
Added ability to pre-populate various topology related fields on various forms.
Made contact association view available to non-admin
Fixed the content modify flag incorrectly set on VO form.
Renamed the add item function on ItemTableView to be more consistent with other view class
Added ability on facility, site, resource group, resource, and contact page to display specific entity (for directly URL)
Fixed the button height issue in chrome
Adding read_report / view_topology actions
MyOSG 1.45

ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
(patched) Fixed the missing id issue on wizard control
Added experimental page which shows realtime resource events
Updated RSV status history detail so that all non-OK status probe will open detail box by default. Also hidden non-reported probe results, and sorted the probe by name [MYOSG-18]
Fixed the default timezone setting issue
No more expand button for critical / non-critical probes. Created expandable section for non-critical expired probes [MYOSG-29]
Added link to Fermilab Gratia Graph interface [MYOSG-30]
GOC Ticket 1.48

ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu
Updated to PHP 5.3 in order to use php-amqp.
Added Event Publisher which publishes ticket create / update events to GOC event server.
Patched an issue where missing ticket group xml can crash the app.
Redesigned attachment interface and exposed it to non-admin & non-guest interface. [TICKET-38] [TICKET-39]
Updated the URL for OpenSearch destination
Fixed broken "close window" button [TICKET-35]
OSG Repository (repo.grid.iu.edu)

ITB version is now available for testing at http://repo-itb.grid.iu.edu
Made configuration changes to keep old rpms in the repo [SOFTWARE-406]
Software (software.grid.iu.edu)

correct bug in debian CAdist
twiki (twiki.grid.iu.edu)

ITB version is now available for testing at https://twiki-itb.grid.iu.edu
Installing LinkOptionPlugin [TWIKI-12]
VOMS (voms.grid.iu.edu)

Installing latest version of VOMS (voms 2.0.6 and voms-admin 2.6.1) for OSGEDU, CSIU and MIS VOs.