Friday, January 23, 2015

2015 OSG All-Hands Meeting: Agenda and Registration

Dear all,

The 2015 Open Science Grid all-hands meeting (Monday, March 23 to Friday, March 27, 2015) draft agenda (https://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=8580#20150323) is now available! Please note that the timetable is provisional at this stage and subject to change, but we hope it will help as you begin to plan your trip.

Register now! ( http://sites.northwestern.edu/osg-ahm2015/register/) The deadline is Monday, March 9. Register now to secure your place!

You can sign up for the whole week or in daily increments, depending on how long you can attend. Visit our website (http://sites.northwestern.edu/osg-ahm2015/register/) to sign up.

Please also take a moment to check the list (http://sites.northwestern.edu/osg-ahm2015/attendees/) of those currently registered. If you believe you have signed up, but you do not see your name, please contact Pamela Villalovoz (pmv@northwestern.edu) to confirm your registration.

If you have any questions or suggestions for the agenda, please do not hesitate to contact us (osg-contact@opensciencegrid.org).

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

GOC Services Update - Tuesday, January 27th, 2015 at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, January 27th, 2015 at 13:00 UTC.
The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered.

MyOSG 2.32
* meshconfig / removing GOC to WLCG meshconfig redirection. GOC's meshconfigs are now considered authoritative mesh config for perfsonar instances. ?new parameter is no longer needed to disable redirection.
* Removed various pages pointing to old datastore (perfsonar matrix, perfsonar host status, and perfsonar VO matrix page). These pages are to be replaced by the new version of datastore (pfds), MaDDash, and OMD display soon.
* (patched) Fixed the issue where disabled tests show up on auto mesh config
* (patched) Added disable flag filtering for auto mesh config

GOC Ticket 1.86
* Minor bug fix for search result page

Glidein
* Upgrade OS to RHEL6 (pending ITB testing)

All Services
* Operating system updates; reboots will be required. The usual HA mechanisms will be used, but some services will experience brief outages.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Announcing OSG Software versions 3.2.19 and 3.1.43

We are pleased to announce OSG Software versions 3.2.19 and 3.1.43.

OSG 3.2.19 contains:
* Several HTCondor CE fixes and improvements (see release notes)
* HTCondor 8.2.6 with a backport of the user-specific config file feature
* HTCondor 8.3.2 in the upcoming repository
* Update to VOMS 2.0.12
* Added an XRootD security module
* Introduced an RSV perfSONAR probe (primarily for the GOC)
* Improved TLS support in MyProxy
* Added TLS support to globus-gram-client and edg-mkgridmap
* Improved support for multiple frontier-squid servers on a single machine
* Several other minor bug fixes

At this time, OSG 3.1 receives critical updates only and
will be completely unsupported after April 30th, 2015.

OSG 3.1.43 contains:
* Improved TLS support in MyProxy
* Added TLS support to globus-gram-client

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

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3219
https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3143

Need help? Let us know:

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

We welcome feedback on this release!

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

GOC Services Update - January 13th, 2015 at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered.

MyOSG 2.31
meshconfig / Added capability to override read_url (pfds)
(patched) moved traceroute service from latency to bandwidth service - per Shawn's request

GratiaWeb
Added new FOS queries (GRATIAWEB-67).

GOC Ticket
Fixed the issue where empty ticket type causes DataTable filtering to malfunction (TICKET-114)
Adding ticket type to Solr index and made all security ticket to be indexed by Solr. Added filtering code to hide security and/or security_notification from the search result (TICKET-112)
Added a few more character for allowed html url replace characters (TICKET-60)
Hidden email addresses in ticket descriptions for guest user (TICKET-108)

OIM 3.39
Added clear_cache internal rest API used by WLCG Loader used by Perfsonar Mesh config admin
Fixed the user/host certificate detail page table header issue.
Fixed invalid link inside GridAdmin/RA agreement text.
Replaced deprecated DivRep function calls inside CertificateRequestUserServlet.
Fixed an issue where googlemap's zoom control bar is missing (OIM-116)
Improved the refreshing mechanism for status indicator for user/host cert reqests (OIM-115)
Perfsonar Endpoint Crawler / updated use null instead of empty MA result (empty MA could be a valid mas list)

TWiki
Applied security patch to deal with http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2014-9367