OSG Operations and Global Research Network Operations Center Disaster Recovery Drill

On Saturday, November 9th, OSG Operations will be participating in a disaster recovery drill with the Global Research Network Operation Center (GRNOC). During this time internal monitoring services and ticketing services will be tested. No OSG monitoring services outside the GOC internal monitoring will be part of this drill. This will occur between the hours of 10:00 and 14:00 EST Saturday, November 9. We expect this drill to be transparent to all OSG users.

GOC Services Update - Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013 at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, October 22nd, 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.

OSG Homepage
* Adding requirement x509 cert on wp-admin pages on top of wordpress user/pass authentication.
* Adding a new carousel image for OSG summer school

MyOSG 2.17+
* Updated GOC real time event page to use local nodejs/socket.io server instead of GOC comet server.
* Installing a GOC event consolidator implemented in nodejs. Installing nodejs and init script for the node-event server.

OIM 3.24
* Fixed the issue where searching with capitalized name in contact editor doesn't show all matching names (OIM-73)
* (patched) Updated from "parent" to "sponsor" for project table.
* (patched) Fixed the bug on GridAdmin notification suppression during approval

GOC Ticket 1.69
* Shorten the label “Only Visible for OIM users” which was displaying unnecessary spacing inside ticket list on ticket viewer.
* (patched) Fixed incorrect API call for REST / ticket notification suppression.

GratiaWeb 1.2-17
* Implemented changes requested in Jira GratiaWeb-40 'Field of Science Integration'

Save The Date for the 2014 Open Science Grid All Hands Meeting April 7-11th at the SLAC National Accelerator Lab

We are pleased to give you first information for the 2014 OSG All Hands Meeting. This will be April 7-11th 2014 at the SLAC National Accelerator Lab in California. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/

The schedule will follow the successful format from previous years:

* US ATLAS and US CMS distributed facility – Tier-2 and Tier-3 – and the next Campus Infrastructure Community (CIC) meetings on the Monday and Tuesday.
* Plenary talks from scientists, researchers and OSG leaders on the Wednesday.
* "Ask the Experts" and other workshops on Thursday.
* And the OSG Council face-to-face – open to Consortium members – at the end of the week.

Information about hotels and other logistics will be posted in about a month. Don't hesitate to contact us for more information, as well as if you are interested to contribute and participate in the program planning and program itself.

CORRECTION: Announcing OSG Software version 3.1.25 (Additional Information)

The previous announcement did not have a complete set of information. The following notice is the up-to-date announcement:

We are pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.25!

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 client, compute element, GUMS servers and BeStMan SEs. Changes include:

* Gratia probes now filter and log unreasonbly huge GPU times
* GUMS now gets VOMS attributes from SSL connection to facilitate glidein authentication
* Globus log rotation performed by copy and truncate
* Updated to jGlobus 2.0.6 (BeStMan and GUMS rebuilt)
* glideinWMS 2.7.2
* VO Package v48

Also with this release, we changed the internal structure of the Yum repositories in preparation for a new OSG software release series (3.2.x, coming soon). The changes are backward compatible with the old layout and should be transparent to users. Further, the osg-release RPM, which contains the repository definitions, still works and will always be the preferred way of defining the OSG repositories. Thus, this change requires no action on your part. For more information about the preparations for OSG 3.2 and beyond, see:

https://twiki.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/SoftwareTeam/SP021_NewVersions

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

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3125

Need help? Let us know:

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

We welcome feedback on this release!

Announcing OSG Software version 3.1.25

We are pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.25!

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 client, compute element, GUMS servers and BeStMan SEs. Changes include:

* gratia probes: now filters and logs unreasonably huge CPU time values
* GUMS: now extracts VOMS attributes from SSL connection
* Globus: Log rotation now performed by copy and truncate
* jGlobus 2.0.6: new version with many bug fixes
* BeStMan recompiled with new jGlobus
* GUMS recompiled with new jGlobus
* glideinWMS 2.7.
* Log XACML failures

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

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3125

Need help? Let us know:

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

We welcome feedback on this release!

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, October 8th, 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.

OSG Homepage
Upgrading to Wordpress 3.6.1
Updating various plugins for WP 3.6.1

OSG-XSEDE
Upgrading to condor 8.0.3 (by Mats Rynge)
/etc/php.ini - setting output_buffering to off

RSV-SAM Publisher
GOC has certified the proper operations of our new RSV-SAM publisher (rsv1.grid.iu.edu), and rsv1.grid.iu.edu will take over the role of production RSV-SAM publisher currently performed by rsv.grid.iu.edu. OSG RSV records will continue to be gathered at rsv.grid.iu.edu which is then replicated to rsv1.grid.iu.edu.