Tuesday, October 19, 2010

GOC Service Upgrade - Tuesday, October 26th at 14:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning at Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 at 14:00 UTC. The GOC reserves four hours (14:00 - 18:00 UTC) in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered.

Tuesday, October 26th at 14:00 UTC

OIM 2.26 (https://oim.grid.iu.edu)

ITB version is now available for testing at https://oim-itb.grid.iu.edu; we encourage users to test this service before the production release.

Added features to store and allow editing of TWiki IDs.
Minor layout change on resource editor (indented wlcg_accounting_name field)

MyOSG 1.28 (https://myosg.grid.iu.edu)

ITB version is now available for testing at https://myosg-itb.grid.iu.edu; we encourage users to test this service before the production release.

[Misc / ServiceStatus] Reduced the number of services with UNKNOWN status
Minor CSS change for Status Map (for better integration with OSG Display)

GOC Ticket 1.29 (https://ticket.grid.iu.edu)

ITB version is now available for testing at https://ticket-itb.grid.iu.edu; we encourage users to test this service before the production release.

Added submitter information when a ticket is initially created (similar to previous fix made on missing submitter when non-Footprint agent updates a ticket)
Moved the form explanations verbiage to each submission page
Minor CSS change for Filter box on ticket navigator (shorten it slightly)

Redhat Enterprise Linux Software Updates

We will be installing software updates that do not require system restarts, so no downtime is expected due to this. Since last month, the only software update Redhat has released that affects GOC systems and is marked Critical is a security update to the java-1.6.0-sun package. There are also a number of updates of lesser importance, which we will also install, with a few exceptions. Some of those noncritical updates are to the kernel, glibc, and related packages, which would require system restarts, so we will not be installing those at this time. The only packages we will update will be those that do not require system restarts.