OSG Operations and Integration are pleased to announce the release of OSG version 1.2.17
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OSG 1.2.17 Update Notification
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Date: February 7, 2011
Affected Components
The following components are affected:
* All OSG software installations
Summary
This release incorporates a variety of fixes and changes to various OSG software components. RSV has been changed to use a new rsv-control script that allows for more control when starting, stopping, and running RSV probes. RSV now also has better support for a standalone RSV monitoring system. Bestman and Bestman2 have been updated to more recent version with several improvements and bug fixes. In addition, a new version of GIP has been included. The GIP update includes several job manager related bug fixes as well as support for WLCG site attributes..
* RSV has had a major overhaul to how it works. See theRSV documentation ( http://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/MonitoringInformation/RSV33 ) for full details.
* Bestman and SRM-Client-LBNL have been updated to 2.2.1.3.18
* Bestman2, Bestman-Client, and SRM-Tester3-LBNL have been updated to 2.0.5
* SRM-Client-Fermi has been updated to 1.9.5-23
* GIP has been updated to 1.1.14 and now supports advertising of WLCG site information
* MyProxy has been updated to address a security issue
* Gratia has been updated and now supports HTPC accounting
Update Instructions
Update instructions can be found on the OSG Twiki under the OSG 1.2 update instructions ( https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/ReleaseDocumentation/OSG12UpdateInstructions ).
Additional Information
The release notes for the VDT 2.0.0p24 release underlying this release can be found here ( http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/2.0.0/release-p24.html ).
Monday, February 7, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
GOC Service Update - Tuesday, February 8th at 14:00 UTC
The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning at Tuesday, February 8th, 2010 at 14:00 UTC. The GOC reserves four hours (14:00 - 18:00 UTC) in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered. We encourage users to test affected services before the production release.
OIM 2.30 (https://oim.grid.iu.edu)
ITB version is now available for testing at https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu
Made Site Form to not allow user from selecting disabled or inactive support centers.
Added a new OIM authorization action in order to allow security team to update contact information.
MyOSG / GIP-Validator
top-level-wlcg-bdii-monitor / Added LDAP timeout (5 seconds for each host) to handle unresponsive WLCG LDAP instances in order to avoid script timeout.
VO Matrix (v1.12) / Fixed bugs on VO matrix generator where invalid VO information from RSV can cause null pointer exception.
OSG Display (http://display.grid.iu.edu)
ITB version is now available for testing at https://display-itb.grid.iu.edu
Updated Gratia SQL used to query source data in order to improve query performance.
TWiki (http://twiki.grid.iu.edu)
To correct a networking irregularity, the virtual server on the OSG TWiki's virtual machine host must be restarted. No other virtual machines share the same host, so no other services will be affected. The total downtime should not exceed 15 minutes.
We appreciate your understanding for the delay in this announcement. Weather emergencies in Indiana have caused staffing difficulties.
OIM 2.30 (https://oim.grid.iu.edu)
ITB version is now available for testing at https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu
Made Site Form to not allow user from selecting disabled or inactive support centers.
Added a new OIM authorization action in order to allow security team to update contact information.
MyOSG / GIP-Validator
top-level-wlcg-bdii-monitor / Added LDAP timeout (5 seconds for each host) to handle unresponsive WLCG LDAP instances in order to avoid script timeout.
VO Matrix (v1.12) / Fixed bugs on VO matrix generator where invalid VO information from RSV can cause null pointer exception.
OSG Display (http://display.grid.iu.edu)
ITB version is now available for testing at https://display-itb.grid.iu.edu
Updated Gratia SQL used to query source data in order to improve query performance.
TWiki (http://twiki.grid.iu.edu)
To correct a networking irregularity, the virtual server on the OSG TWiki's virtual machine host must be restarted. No other virtual machines share the same host, so no other services will be affected. The total downtime should not exceed 15 minutes.
We appreciate your understanding for the delay in this announcement. Weather emergencies in Indiana have caused staffing difficulties.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
New VO Package - GOC Ticket # 9835
A new VO package is now available. This package removes the GRASE VO, which is now functioning under the NYSGrid VO. It also removes the FNAL CMS VOMS entry from the vomses file, due to an error experienced by CMS users when this instance is used.
A detailed list of changes is available at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Operations/PackageV34
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
Please remember a UNIX account for 'hcc' will need to be set up.
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
Please see ticket 9835 at:
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/viewer?id=9835
A detailed list of changes is available at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Operations/PackageV34
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
Please remember a UNIX account for 'hcc' will need to be set up.
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
Please see ticket 9835 at:
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/viewer?id=9835
Monday, January 31, 2011
Severe Weather Conditions at Indiana University
Due to severe weather in Indiana the IUPUI campus will be closed Tuesday, February 1st. (http://www.iupui.edu/~prepared/) This will mean the OSG Operations Center will be operating on emergency weekend and evening procedures until at least the morning of Wednesday, February 2nd. Critical services and emergency response will still be addressed immediately, but normal routine business items and ticket handling may be postponed until we are back on campus.
Friday, January 28, 2011
OSG TWiki x509 Authentication Errors (Resolved)
At approximately 4:20 pm (EST) on January 28, 2011 a problem with TWiki x509 authentication was encountered for Safari/Chrome Macintosh users. TWiki was rolled back to the previous version to allow these users access. Functionality was restored at 4:35 EST.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
NLR Networking Issue Affects OSG BDII
Today beginning at 10:49 EST (15:49 UTC) the Indiana Gigapop and NLR network link experienced routing issues. These issue affected approximately 20 OSG sites sending CEMon data to the BDII machines located at the GOC. These sites were mostly located in the Southern and Southwestern US as links to the Denver and Atlanta NLR backbone routers were affected. The issues were resolved at 12:47 EST (17:47 UTC) and BDII was back to reporting these resources normally.
The NLR Notification is attached for reference.
Subject: NLR Layer 3 Peer Indiana GigaPOP Outage ISSUE=9753 PROJ=77
SUBJECT: NLR Layer 3 Peer Indiana GigaPOP Outage
AFFECTED: Peer Indiana GigaPOP
STATUS: Unavailable
START TIME: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 3:49 PM (1549) UTC
END TIME: ***PENDING
DESCRIPTION: NLR's connectivity to the Indiana GigaPOP was interrupted due to
configuration changes related to the PacketNet migration. Connectivity
issues through the Indiana GigaPOP may continue to be experienced as
NLR Engineers isolate the cause.
TICKET NO.: 9753:77
TIMESTAMP: Tue Jan 25 17:36:14 2011 UTC
The NLR Notification is attached for reference.
Subject: NLR Layer 3 Peer Indiana GigaPOP Outage ISSUE=9753 PROJ=77
SUBJECT: NLR Layer 3 Peer Indiana GigaPOP Outage
AFFECTED: Peer Indiana GigaPOP
STATUS: Unavailable
START TIME: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 3:49 PM (1549) UTC
END TIME: ***PENDING
DESCRIPTION: NLR's connectivity to the Indiana GigaPOP was interrupted due to
configuration changes related to the PacketNet migration. Connectivity
issues through the Indiana GigaPOP may continue to be experienced as
NLR Engineers isolate the cause.
TICKET NO.: 9753:77
TIMESTAMP: Tue Jan 25 17:36:14 2011 UTC
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
GOC Service Update - January 25th, 2011 at 14:00 UTC
The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning at Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 at 14:00 UTC. The GOC reserves four hours (14:00 - 18:00 UTC) in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered. We encourage users to test affected services before the production release.
OIM 2.29 (https://oim.grid.iu.edu)
ITB version is now available for testing at https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu
* Resource Registration Form / Made Resource Service a required field [OIM-64]
* Re-designed contact association view [OIM-61]
* Fixed the bug where null primary_phone profile field, and null Support Cente Footprint ID will cause Footprint ticket to not being created during Resource and VO registration. Added various debug log for further troubleshooting.
* Updated the header style.
MyOSG 1.30 (https://myosg.grid.iu.edu)
ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
* Resource Summary / Added "Open Ticket" information which shows list of all open GOC Tickets for each resources [GOCTICKET-53]
* Added check for missing resource_id parameter for History controller (to silence some alerts coming from deprecated code)
* Updated the header style & Fixed downtime schedule wording.
GOC Ticket 1.32 (https://ticket.grid.iu.edu)
ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu
* Admin / Added custom submit form for GOC Staff. Major refactoring of ticket editor / viewer code [GOCTICKET-46]
* Updated wording for Similar Tickets section to indicate that it only includes tickets that are modified in last 30 days.
* Admin / Deprecated RSV specific issue form
* Updated header style
GOC Ticket Synchronizer 1.15 (GOC-TX)
* Added a bit more information for truncated ggus update.
* Updated the jssecacerts
* Fixed SQL bug for OIM query (missing disable flag check for resource records)
* Fixed the bug where permanent metadata gets reset everytime ticket update happens on Footprint.
RSV Collector (rsv.grid.iu.edu)
* (Postponed again from the last releases) Updates to the RSV report scripts. The script will no longer rely on t2.unl.edu web services and will use rsvprocess.grid.iu.edu for RSV Metric data.
OSG TWiki (https://twiki.grid.iu.edu)
ITB version is now available for testing at https://twiki-itb.grid.iu.edu; we encourage users to test this service before the production release.
* Increased X509 session timeout to 1800 seconds
* Made client certificate to be required only when it's needed under https connection.
All Services
* Redhat Enterprise Linux security/bugfix updates will be applied; this does not include a kernel update, so no reboot will be required.
OIM 2.29 (https://oim.grid.iu.edu)
ITB version is now available for testing at https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu
* Resource Registration Form / Made Resource Service a required field [OIM-64]
* Re-designed contact association view [OIM-61]
* Fixed the bug where null primary_phone profile field, and null Support Cente Footprint ID will cause Footprint ticket to not being created during Resource and VO registration. Added various debug log for further troubleshooting.
* Updated the header style.
MyOSG 1.30 (https://myosg.grid.iu.edu)
ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
* Resource Summary / Added "Open Ticket" information which shows list of all open GOC Tickets for each resources [GOCTICKET-53]
* Added check for missing resource_id parameter for History controller (to silence some alerts coming from deprecated code)
* Updated the header style & Fixed downtime schedule wording.
GOC Ticket 1.32 (https://ticket.grid.iu.edu)
ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu
* Admin / Added custom submit form for GOC Staff. Major refactoring of ticket editor / viewer code [GOCTICKET-46]
* Updated wording for Similar Tickets section to indicate that it only includes tickets that are modified in last 30 days.
* Admin / Deprecated RSV specific issue form
* Updated header style
GOC Ticket Synchronizer 1.15 (GOC-TX)
* Added a bit more information for truncated ggus update.
* Updated the jssecacerts
* Fixed SQL bug for OIM query (missing disable flag check for resource records)
* Fixed the bug where permanent metadata gets reset everytime ticket update happens on Footprint.
RSV Collector (rsv.grid.iu.edu)
* (Postponed again from the last releases) Updates to the RSV report scripts. The script will no longer rely on t2.unl.edu web services and will use rsvprocess.grid.iu.edu for RSV Metric data.
OSG TWiki (https://twiki.grid.iu.edu)
ITB version is now available for testing at https://twiki-itb.grid.iu.edu; we encourage users to test this service before the production release.
* Increased X509 session timeout to 1800 seconds
* Made client certificate to be required only when it's needed under https connection.
All Services
* Redhat Enterprise Linux security/bugfix updates will be applied; this does not include a kernel update, so no reboot will be required.
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