GOC News

OSG Operations has discovered a problem with file attachments to tickets originating at GGUS. This problem was introduced during a recent update to the GGUS ticketing system which caused an inability to access the SOAP attachment interface. Support tickets have been opened at (https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/11560 and https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=78844) and direct communication with GGUS developers has been initiated. This only affects file attachments to tickets, all other ticket exchange functionality is normal.

OSG 1.2.26 Update Notification

Affected Components

The following components are affected:

* Gratia PBS probes
* Tomcat

Summary

This release contains the following updates:

* Tomcat 5.5.35
* Gratia-Common-Probe 1.07.02e-2.osg

This update includes a fix for a DOS vulnerability ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750521 ) in tomcat.
This update also provides a new version of the Gratia probes that
fixes a critical accounting error.

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 2.0.0p33 release underlying this
release can be found here ( http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/2.0.0/release-p33.html ).

OSG Collaborators,

Another outage with Tilted Planet, which hosts www.opensciencegrid.org, caused the OSG webpage to be unavailable. We have been in touch with Tilted Planet who has linked this to continued network issue. The affected OSG webpages was unavailable from 17:00:07 UTC to 18:40:05 UTC.

Thank you for your patience.

Please see ticket 11521 at:
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/11521

OSG Collaborators,

A major outage with Tilted Planet, which hosts www.opensciencegrid.org, caused the OSG webpage to be unavailable. We have been in touch with Tilted Planet who has linked this to a network issue. The affected OSG webpages have resumed normal operations as of 19:30 UTC.

Thank you for your patience.

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 at 14:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours (14:00 - 22:00 UTC) in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered. We encourage users to test affected services before the production release.

Server rack maintenance
Machines hosting ITB instances will be removed from the single rack currently containing all OSG operations servers. They will be moved to newly obtained space in a second rack. This move will address power issues in the current rack. No outages of production services are anticipated.
RSV-SAM (rsv.grid.iu.edu) upgrade (Take 3)

We will upgrade RSV-SAM system to the latest version. This update will remove various DB dependencies and fix bugs discovered within the last 12 month. It will also add new fields requested by CERN SAM team for new SAM.
RSV reporting

RSV-gridview reports will be discontinued. RSV-MyWLCG reporting is already in place.
Remove references to t2.unl (RSVSAM-12)
GratiaWeb

Switching from neb-koji-rpm.repo to repo/osg-release repo [METRICS-6]
OIM 2.41

ITB version is now available for testing at https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu

Configuration change will be made for USCMS support center to switch to GOC-TX as the ticket exchange system on 1/26 (not 1/24).
Updated StaticConfig class to use Property config instead of XML + predefined parameters.
Added Event Publisher, and OIM log to publish events to GOC event server.
Added "admin" check for disabled (removed) contacts
Added sorting code for authorization matrix page
Added various authentication checks for toplogy page.
Consolidated Facility, Site, Resource Group, and Resource list to a Topology page (requires view_topology action authentication)
Moved the OIM report out of admin area into a separate menu item (requires "read_report" action authentication)
Fixed the bug where adding new contact will cause null pointer exception on contact association view. Moved some overly verbose field descriptions to tooltips on various pages
Removed Ex. assignment ID editor from VO editor
Added ability to apply template parameter anytime before render() call.
Added ability to include custom CSS file
Renamed the resource model's getAll function to be consistent with others.
Moved the help content to home page and removed the help page.
Added extra links from home page to show all entities (just to make it more obvious why they aren't seeing "all")
Removed unnecessary page titles from various pages.
Added link to register downtime & resource group from the resource edit page.
Added ability to pre-populate various topology related fields on various forms.
Made contact association view available to non-admin
Fixed the content modify flag incorrectly set on VO form.
Renamed the add item function on ItemTableView to be more consistent with other view class
Added ability on facility, site, resource group, resource, and contact page to display specific entity (for directly URL)
Fixed the button height issue in chrome
Adding read_report / view_topology actions
MyOSG 1.45

ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
(patched) Fixed the missing id issue on wizard control
Added experimental page which shows realtime resource events
Updated RSV status history detail so that all non-OK status probe will open detail box by default. Also hidden non-reported probe results, and sorted the probe by name [MYOSG-18]
Fixed the default timezone setting issue
No more expand button for critical / non-critical probes. Created expandable section for non-critical expired probes [MYOSG-29]
Added link to Fermilab Gratia Graph interface [MYOSG-30]
GOC Ticket 1.48

ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu
Updated to PHP 5.3 in order to use php-amqp.
Added Event Publisher which publishes ticket create / update events to GOC event server.
Patched an issue where missing ticket group xml can crash the app.
Redesigned attachment interface and exposed it to non-admin & non-guest interface. [TICKET-38] [TICKET-39]
Updated the URL for OpenSearch destination
Fixed broken "close window" button [TICKET-35]
OSG Repository (repo.grid.iu.edu)

ITB version is now available for testing at http://repo-itb.grid.iu.edu
Made configuration changes to keep old rpms in the repo [SOFTWARE-406]
Software (software.grid.iu.edu)

correct bug in debian CAdist
twiki (twiki.grid.iu.edu)

ITB version is now available for testing at https://twiki-itb.grid.iu.edu
Installing LinkOptionPlugin [TWIKI-12]
VOMS (voms.grid.iu.edu)

Installing latest version of VOMS (voms 2.0.6 and voms-admin 2.6.1) for OSGEDU, CSIU and MIS VOs.

Hello,

We have reached a major milestone: RPMs are now the recommended way to install most of the OSG Software.

Today we have released OSG Software version 3.0.5. As of this release, the following components are now considered production-ready:

* The Compute Element
* RSV
* The Storage Elements (Bestman, Xrootd, HDFS)

See the release notes for details.
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release305

We encourage you to try out this new RPM-based OSG Software because we believe that it is ready to work in production. As previously announced, we will only be providing critical updates to the older Pacman-based software releases. Therefore all new features will be delivered via this new RPM-based release.

You can ask support via the usual channels. If you need any help with the transition from Pacman to RPM, please feel free to ask for help.

We look forward to your feedback on this new release.

Start Time: Wednesday Dec 14, 12 Noon Pacific
End Time: Wednesday Dec 14, 4 PM Pacific
Description:- DOEGrids CA operators will be updating the DOEGrids CA service with the new signing certificate. This change does require CA service restart. During this maintenance window CA Operators will be restarting the service multiple times, which means the access to the CA services (Certificate Enrollment and Approval interface for Agents) will be affected. This Change to the DOEGrids CA should not have any impact for the user community, because the key material for the new Signing Certificate is the same as the current one. No certificate request approvals will be processed during the entire maintenance window.

Please see ticket 11270 at:
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/11270

The central DocDB server will be patched and restarted next Wednesday, Dec. 14 between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. The outage is expected to last only five to ten minutes.

If you have any questions or if you experience any problems following the outage, please contact the Fermilab Service Desk.



Fermilab Service Desk
http://servicedesk.fnal.gov
servicedesk@fnal.gov
(630) 840-2345

Hello,

I'm pleased to announced OSG Software version 3.0.4. This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for Scientific Linux 5, CentOS 5, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The changes in this release include changes that affect the existing general production release of VOMS, the Client, the Worker Node Client, and glexec. In particular:

* We've updated Globus to a new version that will be compatible with Globus 5.2 when it moves into EPEL in 2012. This required us to rebuild all the packages that link against Globus. There are few functional changes in Globus, but there are bug fixes.

* The CA certificates have been updated to fix a minor packaging problem, but not their content. We expect the IGTF 1.24 update to be released in early January after further testing in our internal OSG integration testbed.

* We have also released some new software as a "limited production release"--details are in the release notes.

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release304

You can ask support via the usual channels. We look forward to your feedback on this new release.

-alain
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Alain Roy
Open Science Grid Software Coordinator
roy@cs.wisc.edu
http://opensciencegrid.org

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours (13:00 - 21:00 UTC) in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered. We encourage users to test affected services before the production release.

MyOSG / OIM / GOC Ticket / Software Cache / TWiki
The footer will be modified to include a link to the Indiana University privacy policy [GOCADMIN-75]
MyOSG 1.44

ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
Disabling BDII information gatherer used by BDII GridMap which is deprecated long ago.
Fixed the Mac EOD (end of line) issue discovered in GOC ticket application
Removed GOC BDII ITB service from Status Overview page. Updated BDII raw data link from is-itb.grid to is.grid
RSV Process 1.16
Removed alert forwarder that sends error messages directly to goc@
GOC Ticket 1.47

ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu
Made definition for json_decode optional and replaced split() with explode() (prepearing for php53)
Fixed the timing of setting default timezone to deal with boot time false alarm.
Added GGUS Ticket ID to metadata column on the ticket navigator
Defined the column that are displayed by default (when there is no cookie set) for navigator.
Added ability to sign email content sent from security notification form and added vulnerability mailing list address to destination list. [TICKET-31]

GOC BDII
is3 and is5 will be added to DNS RR (LVS interface for is3 and is5 is available at vip-is.grid.iu.edu)
OIM.grid.iu.edu 2.40

ITB version is now available for testing at https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu
Updating Installed Capacity Report Script
Deprecated /pub pages will no longer serviced via httpd (http://oim.grid.iu.edu/pub/) [OIM-11]

The water leak in the Indianapolis machine room has been repaired and second instance of BDII returned to DNS round robin. Another shutdown will be required to replace all power sockets that were submerged. The schedule for this replacement has not been announced but the GOC has been assured prior notice will be given.

Due to a water pipe burst at the Indianapolis Campus the BDII instance at is2.grid.iu.edu will be removed from DNS Round Robin at 5pm EST today and remain inactive until at least Monday. This should be transparent to all OSG BDII users as the BDII instance located in the Bloomington machine room will pick up all traffic.

All other Production OSG Services are fully homed in Bloomington and will not be affected.

On Tuesday, we announced the general release of the RPM-based client, worker node client, and glexec (OSG Software 3.0.3). For those of you installing glexec, we recommend that you wait until our 3.0.4 release (currently scheduled for next Tuesday, December 6th) to install it. The installation in 3.0.3 works well on 64-bit platforms, but 32-bit platforms requires extra undocumented editing of the glexec/lcmaps configuration. In addition, updating from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4 will require additional editing of the glexec/lcmaps configuration on all platforms. This suggestion does not apply to the non-glexec portion of the clients: while we will update them, the updates will be transparent.

We hope this doesn't cause any inconvenience.

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Alain Roy
Open Science Grid Software Coordinator
roy@cs.wisc.edu
http://opensciencegrid.org

Hello,

I'm pleased to announced the general availability of OSG Software, release 3.0.3 (a.k.a. VDT). This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for Scientific Linux 5, CentOS 5, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This release includes the Client, Worker Node Client, and glexec.

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release303

(You'll note that 3.0.3 was originally released a week ago--no changes have been made, other than declaring that the clients and glexec are ready for general production use.)

As many of you know, we are phasing in our new software distribution. Today we are announcing the general release of our clients and glexec, and we will be gradually releasing more software between now and mid-December. Some software is in "limited release" (that is, a production release, but intended for early adopters and not widely announced), so you may notice details about it in the release notes.

You can ask support via the usual channels. We look forward to your feedback on this new release.

-alain
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Alain Roy
Open Science Grid Software Coordinator
roy@cs.wisc.edu
http://opensciencegrid.org

From 24/Nov through 27/Nov the GOC will be operating on a Holiday
schedule. Staff will be available to respond to emergencies but
routine operations will resume at start of business Monday 28/Nov.

The GOC wishes its users and OSG staff a happy and satisfying
Thanksgiving Holiday.

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 at 14:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours (14:00 - 22:00 UTC) in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered. We encourage users to test affected services before the production release.
OIM 2.39

ITB version is now available for testing at https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu
Reorganized the resource service details into a separate table so that user can store different set of service details for each service group [OIM-18]
Added external assignment ID field for support center table so that GOC-TX can use it to populate necessary field on the destination ticket [OIM-21]
MyOSG 1.43

ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
Restructured resource service detail model, and removing central & hidden service filters. Updated Resource Group summary page and XML output to reflect the service detail model change [OIM-18]
RSV Process 1.15
Updated the oim model to use resource_service_detail for endpoint override (hasn't tested much) [OIM-18]
Fixed the unescaped XML character issue on resource status cache generator.

GIP Validator
Updated to pull both production and ITB resource information from is.grid.iu.edu
GOC Ticket 1.46

ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu
Changed apache configuration to allow GOC-TX to access attachment files.
(patch) Fixed the issue where some user couldn’t login with a DN who has single quote characters inside their DN
Made submit button to only fire once [TICKET-3]
Hidden attachment interface for custom form submitter (for now) since it only works on an existing ticket
Fix the issue where ticket navigator filter would filter ticket with white space characters [TICKET-15]
GOC-TX 1.21

Added ability to synchronize attachments on GGUS, GOC FP, VDT, BNL ticketing systems.
Added FNAL ServiceNow ticket interface
Various minor bug fixes & logging improvments
All Hosts — OS Updates

We will be installing updated packages from the OS provider on all physical and virtual hosts, including updates to the kernel (https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1386.html) and Java (https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1384.html). There will be downtime during the day for most services, but in most cases it should not be more than 15 minutes. In the case of the CEMon-BDII aggregator service, we will use the DNS round-robin to shift traffic away from the server undergoing maintenance, so no downtime is required, but there may be some degradation of service during this time.

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OSG 1.2.25 Update Notification
******************************

Date: November 10, 2011

Affected Components

The following components are affected:

* Gratia probes

Summary

This release contains the following security updates:

* Gratia-Common-Probe 1.08.00a-2

This update provides a new version of the Gratia probes that
fixes a security issue.

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 2.0.0p32 release underlying this
release can be found here ( http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/2.0.0/release-p32.html ).

OSG Operations has been informed the recent flooding in Thailand has caused damage to the Thai grid infrastructure. OSG Operations wishes the best to our Thailand collaborators during this disaster and hopes for a speedy recovery.

This infrastructure includes the NECTEC CA which can not serve its CRL due to flood damage. There is no expected time for return to service, but we will pass on relevant updates as they arrive. RSV Warnings for the CRL Expiry Probe are appearing and this is expected behavior. This probe is non-critical and will not affect the resource status in OSG or WLCG. Administrators should be aware that this warning may last until connectivity is restored at the institution serving the NECTEC CA.

Details of the CRL Expiry probe will show a message "WARNING: CRL file for CA with hash '8a047de1' has not been updated…" until this service is restored.

Hello,

I'm pleased to announced the general availability of OSG Software, release 3.0.0u2
(a.k.a. VDT). This is our brand-new release of the OSG Software distributed via RPMs
for Scientific Linux 5, CentOS 5, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This release
includes VOMS.

Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release300u2

As many of you know, we are phasing in our new software distribution. Today we are
announcing the general release of VOMS (client and server, including VOMS Admin), and
we will be gradually releasing more software between now and mid-December. Some
software is in "limited release" (that is, a production release, but intended for
early adopters and not widely announced), so you may notice details about it in the
release notes.

You can ask support via the usual channels. We look forward to your feedback on this
new release.

-alain
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Alain Roy
Open Science Grid Software Coordinator
roy@cs.wisc.edu
http://opensciencegrid.org

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, November 8th, 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.

Software Cert request form

ITB version is available for testing at http://software-itb.grid.iu.edu/cert/certreg.php
Added William Baltz to ATLAS VO sponsor.
OSG Display 1.0.9

ITB version is now available for testing at http://display-itb.grid.iu.edu
Fixed grammatical errors
Reduced the flickering caused by content resizing
Added jQuery mobile skin for mobile access
Please be aware the GOC makes reasonable effort to support all major browsers current versions but cannot guarantee proper behavior for all browsers and browser versions.
MyOSG 1.42

ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu
Added mechanism to pull metric detail from the complete source (MetricRecord_Xml) if the detail seems to be truncated at 255 by Gratia collector.
GOC Ticket 1.45

ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu
Fixed a typo [Jira TICKET-28]
Enabling local attachment feature
Fixed the expandall / sort button issue on ticket viewer due to shortened URL