Holiday Greetings from OSG Operations

Dear OSG Collaborators, OSG Operations would like to wish you a happy holiday season and joyous new year! We’d like to thank the OSG resource providers and users worldwide that have helped us provide nearly 1 Billion hours of compute time this calendar year. OSG Operations will continue to provide round the clock holiday coverage in case of operational emergencies over the holiday season. You can continue to open tickets at https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/, send us mail at goc@openscinecegrid.org, or call us at +1 (317)-278-9699. However, we will be operating on holiday procedures beginning on Monday, December 21st, and resuming regular staffing on Monday, January 4th. During this time non-emergency issues will be handled on a best-effort basis. Operations Weekly Calls will resume on Jan 4. Thanks to everyone for another successful year! We look forward to working with everyone in 2016!

Ticketing System Maintenance - Friday, December 18th - 7:00pm EST

On Friday, December 18th from 7PM EST to Saturday, December 19th at 12AM EST Indiana University system engineers will be performing maintenance to upgrade hardware for the OSG Ticket System. During this maintenance, the ability to create new tickets, update tickets, and reply to ticket email will be unavailable. Email to goc@opensciencegrid.org will not be affected. Please send any issues that need to be ticketed to this address. Monitoring of hosts and services is not expected to be affected. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Announcing OSG Software versions 3.2.33 and 3.3.7

We are pleased to announce OSG Software versions 3.2.33 and 3.3.7.

Changes to OSG 3.2.33 and 3.3.7 include:
* Fixed a problem in the PKI command line tools where "Certificate Requests"
were being rejected by the CILogon Certificate Authority.

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

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3233
https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release337

Need help? Let us know:

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

We welcome feedback on this release!

Announcing OSG Software versions 3.2.32 and 3.3.6

We are pleased to announce OSG Software versions 3.2.32 and 3.3.6.

Changes to OSG 3.2.32 and 3.3.6 include:
* CA Certificates based on the IGTF 1.70 release
* Restored the 'Sign AUP on behalf of user' feature in VOMS Admin Server

Changes to 3.3.6 also includes:
* Fixed a bug that prevented HTCondor 8.4's CREAM gahp from starting

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

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3232
https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release336

Need help? Let us know:

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

We welcome feedback on this release!

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 14:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 14:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered.

Repo
* Added locking to update_all_repos.sh to prevent overlapping runs

* Added timestamps to update_all_repos.sh logging

* Updated the various mash scripts to support new goc-* repos

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