Monday, August 22, 2016

TWiki Outage Update

We have completed the previously announced restoration of the TWiki to its state as of Monday 15/Aug. The system is behaving normally at this time but we request you contact us if you encounter any unusual behavior.

We are also in the process of recovering changes to content made between Monday 15/Aug and Friday 19/Aug. If you have any content you need restored and would like prioritized, please let us know.

The GOC regrets any inconvenience and is taking steps to insure this will not reoccur.

Friday, August 19, 2016

TWiki Outage

We are currently encountering difficulties with TWiki and are restoring the
service from backup to its state as of Monday 15/Aug. We will attempt to recover
changes made after that time and will appraise you as to the results of our efforts.
The GOC regrets any inconvenience and will inform you as soon as resolution and
further information is available.

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, August 23rd

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, August 23rd at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event unexpected problems are encountered.
PerfSonar
Updates to esmond, rsv-perfsonar

Collector, Redirector, Ticket, Ticket exchange, OIM
Rebuild from new content management system
OIM, change default certificate signer from DigiCert to CILogon

Glidein
Upgrade GlideinWMS to 3.2.14.1  VOs planning to run GlideinWMS 3.2.15 on their frontends will require all factories to run >= 3.2.14.1

WWW
Updates to wordpress

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

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Announcing OSG Software versions 3.3.15 and 3.2.41

We are pleased to announce OSG Software versions 3.3.15 and 3.2.41.
This is the last release in the 3.2 series.

Both 3.3.15 and 3.2.41 include:
* CA certificates based on IGTF 1.76
* VO Package v67 - correction for ILC

Changes to OSG 3.3.15 include:
* SLURM scalability enhancements in the BLAHP
* Fixed a bug in the BLAHP where HTCondor could not remove a SLURM job
* Enable XRootD-HDFS to use native HDFS libraries if available
* Add an extension to the GridFTP server to report space usage on the server
* Fix GUMS to properly display long Pool Account lists
* The RSV service will start even though its state file is corrupt
* Update GSI-OpenSSH from 5.7-4.3 to 7.1p2f
* voms-proxy-init generates RFC compliant proxies by default
* Configure voms-server for systemd startup in EL7
* Add voms-admin-client for EL7
* HTCondor 8.5.6 in the upcoming repository

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

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3315
https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3241

Need help? Let us know:

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

We welcome feedback on this release!

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

GOC Service Update Tuesday, August 9th at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, August 9th at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event unexpected problems are encountered.

www
Modifications to configuration for bosco
Will not request a certificate
Redirect to https

OASIS
Add configuration for /cvmfs/cernvm-devel.cern.ch to the config-osg.opensciencegrid.org repository