OIMv2 released!

The OSG GOC is pleased to announce the release of OIM version 2.0 (to production status) at https://oim.grid.iu.edu.

This is a complete re-write of the OIM application with an updated database backend. Major changes include:

1. WLCG Installed Capacity: Coordinators of VO that are part of the WLCG interoperability (and/or resource contacts) can enter/modify Installed Capacity information for resources their VO owns
2. VO Reporting and Subscription; VO contacts can add/modify VO reporting names, associated FQAN and report subscribers
3. Fields of Science: VOs can associate with field(s) of science(s)
4. VO Ownership of Resources: Resource contacts can set VO ownership of their resource
5. Hidden and/or Central Service Registration: Resources can be mapped to multiple services, and tagged hidden if applicable. For example, if the service is a hidden CE.
6. Over-riding serviceUri: A resource-service's URI can be overridden if applicable. For example, if an SRM runs on foo.grid.iu.edu:60443
7. Ability to Edit Resource Groups, Sites, Facilities: Registered OIM users are allowed to modify administrative facility and site information as well as resource group information
8. Multiple Auth-Levels for Users: Registered users can be associated with more than one authorization level; This allows us to provide granular authorization capabilities for various other services like the ticket system, MyOSG, etc.
9. Comprehensive Audit Capabilities: Changes to various entities are logged, and easily made available to GOC staff and other authorized users. This will help with security as well as various contacts of a resource or a VO knowing what was changed in their registration by who, and when.
   
10. New UI: Brand new look for the user interface!

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT PUBLIC VIEWS:

Public views that used to be available at http://oim.grid.iu.edu/pub have mostly been removed from the OIM web interface; these pieces of information are available via MyOSG (http://myosg.grid.iu.edu); Legacy public views, chosen based on past usage, have still been made available at the above link with a warning that they will be phased out as we follow usage or lack of usage. We will be contacting users of the legacy public OIM views to help them towards migrating to MyOSG-provided data.

OIM maintenance complete, and GOC ticket interface restored

OIM service was restored at approximately 18:15 UTC today. (We will send a follow up release notification shortly!)

The OSG GOC apologizes for the inconvenience, but during the OIM maintenance today, GOCTicket had to be taken down for a short period of time time. The ticket interface at https://oim.grid.iu.edu/gocticket was restored at approximately 18:50 UTC.

Again, we apologize for any inconvenience the unexpected ticket interface outage may have caused.

OIM Maintenance Wednesday, May 27 2009 18:00 UTC

OIM will be under maintenance on Wednesday, May 27 2009 18:00 UTC - 19:00 UTC as the Open Science Grid Operations Center releases OIM version 2. The GOC will work to ensure as little downtime as possible, but reserves the entire window for maintenance. We will send a followup announcement when this maintenance has completed.

While OIM will be affected, the following related services will NOT be affected by this maintenance:
* MyOSG
* BDII
* GOCticket

The GOC will also send out an announcement with information about new features in version 2, migration that may be necessary, legacy links and how long they will be available, etc.

OSG TWiki Maintenence Completed

The OSG Operations Center has finished its maintenance of the OSG TWiki. Editing capabilities have been restored. If, for some reason, you cannot access the TWiki or edit, you may need to clear your DNS cache. Please alert the GOC if you notice any other odd behaviors.

MyOSG 1.1 released!

The OSG GOC is pleased to announce the release of MyOSG 1.1 (to production status) at http://myosg.grid.iu.edu/

Major changes include:

1. Resource summary page (Resource -> Resource Summary) now provides:
   • ServiceURIs for OSG services like CE, SRM, GridFtp
     
   • Environment Parameter values for OSG resources
   • WLCG Interoperability information including Interop LDAP list as applicable
     
   • Contact Information (such as report contact, admin contact, etc.). NOTE: Email address might be removed from a future release.
   • Deprecated feature: A legacy CSV URL link for users who wish to continue to use a CSV listing of resources similar to what is shown on VORS' text listing. NOTE: This link will be removed on Nov 30 2009, and is provided to ease transition from VORS to MyOSG.
     


2. New filters for resource pages: Active Status, WLCG Information availability
   
3. Allows display of permanently deactivated (for anyone who does any kind of reporting against resources including removed ones)
4. Support Center summary is now available (via link on top menu)
   
5. Virtual organization summary is now available (via link on top menu). This page includes ability to additionally:
   • Show member resources
   • Show field(s) of science
     
   • Show reporting group information. FQANs and contacts. NOTE: Email address might be removed from this display in the future.
     
6. Additional explanation at the top of each XML page, and a URL back to original (HTML) MyOSG page at the bottom of each XML page
   

This version of MyOSG uses updated OIM (v2) database. Until the production release of OIMv2, the data will be synchronized from OIMv1's database on a daily basis.

Sample Pages

1. ATLAS VO users who are interested in using CEs and SRMs(v2) can go to following link http://tinyurl.com/okvpkg. This page shows ATLAS resources that are under OK status, with service URIs, and environment variables.
   
2. Fermilab VO users in VO Reporting Groups information can go to http://tinyurl.com/rbdaud . This page shows information about groups that are stored in OIM (v2). NOTE: The VO registrations on OIM will need to go through a round of clean up (when OIMv2 is released) before this information can be said to be useful.

As usual, any page you see on MyOSG can be exported to XML by clicking the XML link under the Subscription section. On the other hand, if you already have XML, as stated previously, comments at the end of each XML page contains link back to a human readable MyOSG view with the exact query settings that you used to generate the XML so that you can modify or update the query.

New VO Package - NEBioGrid VO Added - GOC Ticket # 6848

A new VO package is now available. This package includes the new VO NEBioGrid.

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

Also remember a 'nebiogrid' local account mapping will be necessary, so please set up NEBioGrid using your local procedures.

Operations Webpage Maintenance- May 19 - Complete

The OSG Operations Center has completed maintenance on the Operations web page. All pages are working as expected. If you notice any problems, please notify us as soon as possible.