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

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OSG 1.2.28 Update Notification
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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

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OSG 1.2.27 Update Notification
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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.