GOC Service Update - Tuesday, January 28th, 2013 at 14:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, January 28th, 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

Updating grid-mapfile updater to allow same user(DN) to be listed for multiple VOs (OO-20)

OIM

(DB Update) All host certificate request records with approver VO ID not set will be reset based on CNs and current configuration of GridAdmin table.

MyOSG 2.20

Minor cosmetic update on Resource Group / downtime page.
Filtered disabled contact on vooasisuser
Fixed the issue where contact model does not return all DNs. Updated HTML/XML to return list of DNs instead of a single DN.

RSV collector - rsv1.grid.iu.edu (1.13.10-1.1.osg.el6)

(Re-try from last week’s update aborted)
Upgrading to version 1.13.10
(already applied) Increased tomcat memory size to 2G/512M-perm to prevent GC out of memory problem, and increased OS memory size to 8G.

OSG Homepage

Currently, /pub URLs such as https://www.opensciencegrid.org/twiki/pub/Security/PKIDocumentationIndex/DigiCert_Grid_API_August_2012.pdf are not forwarded to Twiki. Fixing RewriteRule to forward such URLs.

Repo (repo-itb/repo1/repo2.grid.iu.edu)

Updating the mirror script to add connection timeout and locking

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.

New VO Package Available

OSG Operations would like to welcome two new Virtual Organizations to the OSG Consortium.

This includes the Cherenkov Telescope Array and the XENON Dark Matter Search

Please add these new VO’s along with the recently released ENMR VO that is attempting to gain a foothold.

A detailed list of changes is available at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Operations/PackageV50

The GOC suggests backing up your installation before running any update commands.

Announcing OSG Software versions 3.1.29 and 3.2.3

We are pleased to announce OSG Software versions 3.1.29 and 3.2.3.

Both 3.1.29 and 3.2.3 versions contain the following changes:

* Update to VO Package v50 (Add CTA and xenon-biggrid.nl)
* Added manpages to Cooperative Computing Lab's cctools packages (Parrot, Chirp, Makeflow, etc.)
* Added cctools-doc package which contains overall cctools HTML documentation.
* Update to gLExec version 0.9.9

The 3.2.3 version contains the following additional changes:

* Improved usability of empty-* packages
* Update to HTCondor version 8.0.5

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

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3129
https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release323

Need help? Let us know:

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

We welcome feedback on this release!

OSG PKI Update to SHA-2 Now February 11th, 2014

The OSG PKI has delayed its start date for issuing SHA-2 signed certificates from January 14th, 2014 to February 11th, 2014. On February 11th all newly issued certificates will be signed with the new SHA-2 hash algorithm. To be fully compliant in all packages OSG resources will need to be updated to OSG 3.1.22 or greater. Release 3.1.22 has been available since August, 2013. A full table of packages and the OSG version they are compliant at is available at https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/SHA2Compliance. It is very important that you review this list and determine if commonly used software at your site needs to be updated.

The OSG Production and Software Teams are available to answer your questions regarding the SHA-2 update. Please open a ticket at http://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/submit if you have any questions or need assistance.

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, January 14th, 2013

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, January 14th, 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.

OSG Homepage
* Fixed the jQuery conflict issue by replacing jQuery from OSG theme with one provided by Wordpress, and updated jQuery referencing to use noConflict version.
* Upgrading to Wordpress 3.8 (& updating all plugins)

GratiaWeb v1.2-20, v1.2-21, v1.2-22
* Updating to use latest OSG release (3.2)
* Allowing filter by ProjectName and facility on the project query / Fixed project filtering (GratiaWeb-42)
* Added two new queries in preparation for wlcg_reporting software modifications.

OSG Display (1.0.6)
* Rebuilding to RHEL6
* Fixed discrepancy between OSG display and GratiaWeb's CPU hours (SOFTWARE-1326)

RSV collector - rsv1.grid.iu.edu (1.13.10-1.1.osg.el6)
* Maintenance update
* (already applied) Increased memory size to 2G/512M-perm to prevent GC out of memory problem.

MyOSG 2.19
* Added a counter for number of resources displayed for all resource group pages
* Added specific metric selector for Current Status page - behavior should be backward compatible with old MyOSG queries, but need more testing / notification (MYOSG-71)
* Fixed the issue that crashes resource group / XML page if user enter resource name with & character in OIM.
* Combined FieldOfScience and VOFieldOfScience models into one, and deprecated FieldOfScience model itself.
* Updated the way FOS is pulled & displayed in MyOSG to allow fos_rank related to OIM-78
* Added rank indicator icons for various contacts for vosummary page

OIM 3.26
* Work in progress to make sure approver_vo_id gets set for all new request
* Added various notifications messages after user performs actions successfully  (renew / revoke / re-request ,etc..) Also replaced "you can not performed any action" to "please wait while certificate is issued" during certificate issuing state (per goc ticket 17869)
* Added list of DNs requested by user for host certificate request (per GOC Ticket 17991)
* Various updates related to FOS editor (access control, menu placement, breadcrumbs) Made autocomplete.js to take minLength parameter as an attempt to allow user to double click on the input field to list all values.
* Added capability to re-focus new contact input after user select a value - also for FOS editor (OIM-75)
* Updated vo_field_of_science contact_rank_id table column name to rank_id
* Updated FOS editor with contact editor style selector, and remove ability for user addition.
* Updated FOS administration page to include list of VO/Project using the FOS, and delete button if no VO/project is used (OIM-78 / OIM-79)

GOC Ticket 1.71
* Updated to use latest jquery/jquery-ui/bootstrap (still 2.3.2) from publically available CDN.
* Completely overhauled attachments interface (TICKET-91)
* (released) adjusted RR rule (TICKET-90)
* (patched) fixed an issue where failure to connect chat.js will prevent page from loading

GOC-TX 1.32 (Rebuild)
* Upgrading to RHEL6 / MySQL 5.1

Sever Weather Conditions Continue at Indiana University

Due to severe weather conditions the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses of Indiana University will be closed Tuesday, January 7th (http://emergency.iu.edu). The OSG Operations Center will be operating on emergency weekend and evening procedures until at least the morning of Wednesday, January 8th. Critical services and emergency response will be addressed immediately, but routine business items and ticket handling may be postponed until campus reopens.

Severe Weather Conditions at Indiana University

Due to severe weather conditions the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses of Indiana University will be closed Monday, January 6th (http://emergency.iu.edu). The OSG Operations Center will be operating on emergency weekend and evening procedures until at least the morning of Tuesday, January 7th. Critical services and emergency response will be addressed immediately, but routine business items and ticket handling may be postponed until campus reopens.

We anticipate both campuses will be operating normally by Tuesday morning. We will update our status if this is not the case.

OSG Connect Network Maintenance - Friday January 4th

OSG Connect services will be impacted by a network maintenance on the
University of Chicago's 100G network tomorrow, January 4th 2014, between
1100 and 1200 GMT. During this window the 100G network will be unavailable
though some traffic may be reroute through the 10G network. This includes
all OSG Connect services homed at the University of Chicago.