Sciense Oprations

On Sep 29th between 22-23:00 hours Eastern Time (Sep 30th 2-3:00 UTC), OSG Ticket System is expected to be down due to an scheduled upgrade/maintenance to the underlying Footprints server. Users of https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/ will be unable to create/view/modify tickets during that time.

The OSG has released version 1.2.3 into production - this corresponds to VDT update release 2.0.0p10. To see a complete list of update please see:



http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/2.0.0/release-p10.html



This update applies only to resources that are at OSG version 1.2.x and does not affect resources using 1.0.x.



For detailed instructions for updating please visit:

https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/ReleaseDocumentation/OSG123UpdateInstructions

The computer that hosts the VDT web site and software caches

(vdt.cs.wisc.edu) is having a disk problem and maintenance will be

performed on it at 4:00pm Central Time today.



We hope that the maintenance will not cause downtime for the VDT web

site, but it might. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this

might cause for you, and we'll get things back online as quickly as

possible.



In the event that an interruption in service occurs for the VDT

software cache, the OSG software cache will also be unavailable.

The OSG has released version 1.2.2 into production - this corresponds to VDT update release 2.0.0p9. To see a complete list of update please see:



http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/2.0.0/release-p9.html



This update applies only to resources that are at OSG version 1.2.x and does not affect resources using 1.0.x.



For detailed instructions for updating please visit:

https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/ReleaseDocumentation/OSG122UpdateInstructions

The OSG will be removing the service named "BestmanXRootd" and replacing

associated resources with an existing entry named SRMv2.



The GOC has devised a plan of action towards this, and is tracking the

change in ticket https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/viewer?id=7457



The steps the GOC will take include:



1) For each resource providing a Bestman/Xrootd service, GOC staff will

enable the SRMv2 service at least 1 week before Oct 1st 2009

(a) For WLCG-interop sites, make sure the SRMv2 service is reporting

fine to SAM



2) On Sep 30th 2009, GOC will remove the Bestman/Xrootd service from

OIM's list of services

(a) For WLCG-interop sites, SAM developer will remove the

Bestman/Xrootd services manually from SAM's DB on Oct 1st 2009.

(b) GridView team will be responsible for reviewing the computed

statistics for the first week of the month.



Please see ticket 7457 at:
https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/viewer?id=7457

The GOC will be updating OIM and MyOSG at 2 PM EDT (18:00 UTC). No

downtime is expected.



All updates in this release will be transparent to users of MyOSG's

critical components. Several feature requests and minor bug fixes have

been addressed. These include the ability to set local timezone on one's

profile, and afterward schedule maintenance using local times, both on

OIM; And on MyOSG the ability to view downtime details in local times,

and exporting of the downtime schedule to several popular calendar formats.



MyOSG 1.7 Updates



* (RSV Status Map - Promotional View): Groups nearby sites into one

location to reduce overlap on GIF export. Also added Google Earth

export (.kml) so that user can export OSG facility information to

Google Earth.

* (Resource Group Downtime): Added ability for user to export the

downtime information in iCal format. Tested with Google Calendar,

Thunderbird Calendar plugin, Apple iCAL.

* (ResourceGroup Downtime): Added FQDN and resource group information

* (GIP) Updated GIP validation XML script to print LDIF URLs. Fixed bug

related to use of wrong URL for GIP issue detail link

* Added support for display of user-specific timezone where applicable,

information if set on OIM (for that user)



OIM 2.7 Updates



* (Timezone) Added timezone to contact list, ability to add downtime in

user's local timezone, timezone tags to downtime start/end times;

resource downtime uses user's local timezone to display time

* (Contacts):

- Filter added to not show disabled contact for contact editor

- Fixed the ghost auto complete box issue on contact editor

- Changed the mailing list / personal contact icons

- Added phone number column to report confirmation export

* (Comment field) Added comment entry field for Resource, VO, and SC editor.

* (Resource) Added validation to make sure only one service of the

same type can be added to a resource.

Services hosted from the IUB (Bloomington) Machine Room will be temporarily unavailable on Friday, September 11, from 4:00am to 5:00am EDT due to scheduled maintenance.



This maintenance will cause the following services to experience an outage:



MyOSG

OIM

RSV Collector

Software

Ticket

Twiki

(GOC) VOMS

YUM



The Bloomington BDII Server (is1.grid.iu.edu) will also be down during this time. We will configure DNS to point at is2.grid.iu.edu well in advance of this maintenance.