Monday, August 31, 2015

TWiki - Intermittent Editing Issues

Greetings,

We are currently encountering difficulties with the TWiki. This problem prevents updates to some pages but not others. The problem appears to be intermittent and is under investigation. The GOC regrets any inconvenience and will inform you as soon as a resolution is available.

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

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

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered.

OASIS
  • Move repositories and logs from oasis and oasis-replica to a shared disk attached to their hypervisor.
  • Removal of content for the fermilab VO.
  • oasis-login to latest version


Shared file system
  • Firmware update to the nas01 device (a QNAP TS-EC879U-RP), requiring two reboots.


All Services

  • Operating system updates; reboots will be required. The usual HA mechanisms will be used, but some services will experience brief outages. Relocation of service virtual machines to their new hosts will complete.

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Announcing OSG Software versions 3.2.26 and 3.3.0

We are pleased to announce OSG Software versions 3.2.26 and 3.3.0.

OSG 3.2.26 contains:
* XRootD 4.2.2 (see release notes for details)
* 2 patches to HTCondor to better support HTCondor CE
* improved logging of failures in lcmaps-plugins-verify-proxy
* better credential handling and fix for crashes in lcamps-plugins-scas-client
* CA Certificates are no longer repackaged for compatibility with old software
* VO Package v61

OSG 3.3.0 starts a new release series. This series is currently largely equivalent to the 3.2.26 series with the following changes:
* Unused and unmaintained packages were dropped from the 3.3 series.
* The 3.3 series contains HTCondor 8.3.6, rather than HTCondor 8.2.8.
* The OSG 3.3 series supports Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 systems.
* Enterprise Linux 7 support is not yet complete.
* We have lightly tested the worker node components on EL 7.

For more information about OSG Release series, please review the following:

https://twiki.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/OSGReleaseSeries
https://twiki.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/SoftwareTeam/ReleaseSeriesSupportPolicy

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

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3226
https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release330

Need help? Let us know:

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

We welcome feedback on this release!

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered.

GratiaWeb

* Modifications to use google charts tree map

* New time & efficiency tree map plot

* Opportunistic filter for all summary queries

* Bug fix for sql var replacement



OASIS

* Move repositories and logs from oasis and oasis-replica to a shared disk attached to their hypervisor

All Services


* We detected a problem with how we were synchronizing our systems’ clocks, causing some systems’ times to be off by up to four minutes; we will apply a new solution using chrony.