Operations Webpage Maintenance- May 19

The Open Science Grid Operations Center will be performing routine maintenance on the www.grid.iu.edu server on Tuesday, May 19 2009 19:00 UTC. The maintenance will only affect the operations web pages on www.grid.iu.edu and not any other services such as yum.grid.iu.edu or is.grid.iu.edu. The maintenance is expected to last less than one hour, and we will let you know when it is complete.

OSG TWiki Maintenance - Wednesday, May 20

The Open Science Grid Operations Center will be performing maintenance on the OSG TWiki (twiki.grid.iu.edu) server on Wednesday, May 20 2009 from 12:00 to 15:00 UTC. The TWiki will become read-only at 12:00 in an effort to ensure no outages occur during editing. The TWiki may experience intermittent connectivity starting at 13:00 UTC while a DNS change propagates. Once the change is done, we will reactivate editing on the TWiki and announce the end of maintenance to the OSG Community.

OSG BDII Maintenance, Thursday, May 14, 2009

The OSG Operations Center will be performing maintenance on the BDII on Thursday, May 14th from 1:00 PM EDT to 2:00 PM EDT. During this time BDII traffic will be rerouted by DNS to another BDII Server which will remain active and functional. Users using the is.grid.iu.edu address should see no interruption in service.

OSG BDII Maintenance, Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The OSG Operations Center will be performing maintenance on the BDII on Wednesday, May 13th from 10:00 AM EDT to 11:00 AM EDT. During this time BDII traffic will be rerouted by DNS to another BDII Server which will remain active and functional. Users using the is.grid.iu.edu address should see no interruption in service.

BDII Instability

An instance of BDII at the GOC is experiencing an outage. BDII information remains available from the other instance of BDII. We will alert the community when service has been restored.

OSG CA Certificates Version 1.6

Version 1.6 of the OSG CA certificates distribution is
available from <http://software.grid.iu.edu/pacman/cadist/>.

===== Version 1.6 ====================
Released 5-May-2009
Updated to IGTF 1.29:
* Restored NGO-Netrust CA with hash d1737728 (SG)
* Updated AIST Grid (CRL) URL metadata (JP)
* Added accredited MD-Grid CA with hash 9ff26ea4 (MD)
* Added accredited HKU Grid CA with hash 4798da47 (HK)
* Updated signing policy file of APAC Grid CA (AU)
* Added accredited classic BYGCA (Belarus) with hash 709bed08 (BY)
* Updated namespace for the APAC CA (AU, NZ)

Changes to this and past releases can also be found at this link:

http://software.grid.iu.edu/pacman/cadist/changes.txt

New VO-Package Released - Updated CDF, GROW, Fermilab, and CompBioGrid Information

A new VO package is now available. This package includes the new updates and changes to the CDF, GROW, Fermilab, and CompBioGrid VOs.

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

To pull the new VO Package for an OSG 0.8 or 1.0.x Resource please use:

# cd $VDT_LOCATION
# source setup.sh
# pacman -update vo-package


To pull the new VO Package for the OSG Client 0.8 or 1.0.x please use:

# cd $VDT_LOCATION
# source setup.sh
# pacman -update vo-client