Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Announcing OSG Software version 3.1.20

We are pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.20!

This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for:

* Scientific Linux 5 and 6
* CentOS 5 and 6
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6

This release affects the CA certificates. Changes include:

* Update OSG CA packages with the IGFT 1.53 distribution

Release notes and pointers to more documentation can be found at:

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3120

Need help? Let us know:

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We welcome feedback on this release!

The next release (3.1.21) is expected on July 9th.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

UW-Madison CompSci infrastructure outages Wed, June 19 6:30AM Central

I apologize for the late notice, but the University of Wisconsin-Madison's
Computer Sciences department will be performing scheduled maintenance to
our infrastructure early tomorrow morning (6:30AM - 8:00AM Central). There is a 1.5 hour maintenance window, during which time a few
OSG resources may be unavailable. We believe that this outage will not
cause significant problems for OSG users in general, mostly just OSG
Software staff. Affected systems include:

* The old VDT website (vdt.cs.wisc.edu, largely deprecated now)
* The VDT Pacman caches (now end-of-lifed)
* The OSG Subversion repository (mostly used for development)
* The OSG Software upstream cache (used for OSG Software builds in koji)

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

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered.  We encourage users to test affected services before the production release.


GratiaWeb

* 'gratia-fix-unknown-vo'; and a correction to the 'apel_url'. This apel_url correction allows the wlcg_reporting and jot_reporting pages to successfully query APEL data (GRATIA-108)
* Unspecified updates made for GratiaWeb version 1.2-5.


GOC Ticket 1.65

* Disabling /itb and /storage URLs which were deprecated in February (TICKET-57)  
* (patched) removed unnecessary sql value escape for Data model
* Updated the close icon on alert message
* Fixed the way Apache Solr indexer URL was configured


MyOSG 2.12

* Releasing Perfsonar VO Matrix page which displays Perfsonar mesh result in a single view for all endpoints participating in a particular VO.
* Added perfsonar test result parameters for OSG full matrix popover.
* Updated the close icon on alert message
* Fixed the issue with CSV export where newline characters inside RSV detail was not escaped (MYOSG-68)
* Added display for Virtual Organization / cert only indicators (OIM-67)


OSG-Xsede

* Updates to the OSG stack


OIM 3.20

* Adding “Certificate Issue Only” check box for Virtual Organization (OIM-67)
* Add validation to only allow ascii char for user certificate requester name (OIM-63)
* Updating Apache POI library (For exporting Excel doc) and running tomcat server as “headless” to prevent issues associated with X Window / Display parameters.
* Allowing admin_gridamdin to revoke host cert, and admin_ra to revoke user cert.
* (patched) added user cert DN contact ID reset code if it doesn't match with the requester


Confluence 5.1.3 - https://confluence.grid.iu.edu
* Upgrading from 5.0.1 to 5.1.3 (jumping 6 releases - https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Release+Notes)


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.  Updates include, but are not limited to:
* [RHSA-2013:0847-01] Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update
* [RHSA-2013:0869-01] Important: tomcat6 security update
* [RHSA-2013:0870-01] Important: tomcat5 security update
* [RHSA-2013:0911-01] Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

OSG 3.1.19 Released

We are pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.19!

This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for:

* Scientific Linux 5 and 6
* CentOS 5 and 6
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6

This release affects the cvmfs, frontier-squid, glideinwms, gratia-probe, npad, oasis-config, ost-ca-scripts, osg-test. Changes include:

* CVMFS updated to version 2.0.19
* GlideinWMS updated to version 2.7.1
* gratia-probes do not report over 100% efficiency

This release also contains HTCondor 7.9.6 in the upcoming repository.

Release notes and pointers to more documentation can be found at:

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3119

Need help? Let us know:

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We welcome feedback on this release!

Thursday, June 6, 2013

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 at 14:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 at 14:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered.  We encourage users to test affected services before the production release.

OASIS

* Port 80 will be placed behind a reverse (accelerated) proxy. The change will be transparent to our existing users (OO-1)


RSV-SAM

* (postponed from May 28th) Switch production SAM publisher from rsv.grid to rsv1.grid


Jira - https://jira.opensciencegrid.org

* Upgrading to Jira 6.0 (https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+6.0+Release+Notes)


MyOSG 2.11.2 - https://my.opensciencegrid.org

* Added Perfsonar Mesh Configurations page (no xml yet)
* Fixed a bug where empty resource ids results in selecting all resources in various models.
* (patched) fixed rgpf controller issues


Perfsonar Datastore / Collector

* Updating datastore to the latest version which fixes various bugs and add meshconfig loader.


OIM 3.19 - http://oim.grid.iu.edu

Note: OIM update will cause a brief service outage on OSG PKI interface which is part of OIM.
* Allowing GOC to switch hash algorithm requested to DigiCert via configuration (we will stay on sha1 until further notice)
* Allowing OSG PKI staff to cancel user/host certificate requests


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

* (postponed from May 28th) Upgrading UI wrapper to the new version.


Blogs - http://blogs.opensciencegrid.org/

* Added Rob Gardner’s Blog.

Monday, June 3, 2013

REMINDER: Power maintenance in the Indiana University - Bloomington Data Center - June 4, 2013

Tomorrow, June 4th, from 8:00 to 17:00 EDT there will be extensive work in the Bloomington data center involving power maintenance. The portion of the data center hosting GOC services should not be affected and OSG operations staff will be available in the unlikely event of an inturruption.