GOC Machine Room Move Completed

The GOC data center move is now complete. All community facing services have been restored, including the RSV collector and SAM transfer.

During the maintenance users contacting is1.grid.iu.edu directly or via DNS round robin may have seen intermittent service outages.

Some GOC internal services, including the MIS and OSGEDT VOMS, are still being brought online and will be available shortly.

MyOSG 1.9 Release October 19

The GOC will be upgrading MyOSG on October 19th, 2009 at 3 PM EDT (1900 UTC).
This update should not affect any current usage of MyOSG. The change log is
listed below:

* CSV Output:
- Added ability to export MyOSG content in CSV (UTF-8) created by
flattening the XML output.
- The ordering and number of columns in the CSV file will change based
on the data.
- We do not recommend the CSV output for programattic use - it is meant
mainly for management to be able to import into a tool like Microsoft
Excel for further manipulation

* VO/Activation:
- Fixed the bug where VO id can be incorrect.

* UTF-8 Encoding issues:
- Fixed any place view that was not handling UTF-8 characters correctly.

* Mobile Content:
- Added Mobile Content subscription link that allows users who are
having trouble consuming UWA content on their mobile devices to render
MyOSG data on the web browser installed on the device
- This is an experimental feature, and has not been tested extensively yet.

REMINDER: OSG GOC Service Maintenance - Oct. 17, 2009

This is a reminder that Saturday, October 17, 2009, the GOC will perform the following maintenance:

Machine Room Move in Bloomington - 7 AM to 5 PM EDT. GOC will attempt to make it as short as possible.

* GOC has put in place instances of critical services BDII, MyOSG, GOCTicket, Software cache -- and non-critical services OIM , Twiki -- on IUPUI based servers.
* RSV collector will be down. Records will be picked up when the server comes back up. RSV-SAM uploads will resume when the server comes back up.
* GOC VOMS will be down.
* http://www.grid.iu.edu will be down.

OSG GOC Services Experiencing Difficulties

OSG GOC Services are experiencing intermittent outages due to a problem with a core router at the IU-Bloomington campus. This may cause problems connecting to MyOSG, GOCTicket and other services. System Engineers are investigating and hope to have service stabilized as soon as possible.

New VO Package - New GPN VOMS Address

A new VO package is now available. This package reflects a change of address for the GPN VOMS.

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

To pull the new VO Package for an OSG 1.0.x or 1.2.0 Resource please
use:
# cd $VDT_LOCATION
# source setup.sh
# pacman -update vo-package

To pull the new VO Package for the OSG Client 1.0.x or 1.2.0 please use:
# cd $VDT_LOCATION
# source setup.sh
# pacman -update vo-client

Upcoming GOC Maintenance

The GOC will be performing the following maintenance this week:

1) On October 7, 2009 at 11 AM EDT (15:00 UTC), we will be upgrading the
GOCTicket application (https://ticket.grid.iu.edu). This release is
mainly an update to the Security ticket notification system (Related
ticket: https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/viewer?id=7498). No outage is
expected but the GOC reserves 30 minutes for any unforeseen problems.

2) On Oct 7, 2009 at 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC), we will be modifying the
DNS to point the following services at respective Indianapolis based
instances.

- myosg
- oim
- software
- ticket
- twiki

No outage is expected but the GOC reserves one hour for unforeseen problems.

Upcoming maintenance: On Oct 21, 2009 at 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC), the
GOC will be modifying the DNS to round-robin the following services
between two instances, one hosted at Bloomington, and the other at
Indianapolis.

- myosg
- software
- ticket

No outage is expected but the GOC reserves one hour for unforeseen problems.

MyOSG 1.8/OIM 2.8 Upgrade 10-2-09

The GOC will be upgrading MyOSG and OIM October 2, 2009 at 3 PM EDT. This update will consists of several minor bug fixes and feature requests. It will not affect any current usage of MyOSG.

A full change log can be found at https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Operations/MyOSG18.