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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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