Agenda-10-02-2014

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1. Middleware releases and staged rollout

1.1 News from URT

No URT meetings after the last Operations Meeting (one is scheduled after the operations meeting), but EMI released updates for EMI-3 and EMI-2:

• EMI-3 update 13 containing updates for:
  • gLite-proxyrenewal
  • caNL
  • StoRM

• EMI-2 update 22 containing updates for:
  • glite-proxyrenewal
  • UMD-2 is considered under security support, but we could update Gridsite and glite-px in order to make them compatible with the latest openssl updates. Since UMD-2 will start the decommissioning process soon, only a verification will be performed.

1.2 UMD release

• UMD 3.4.0 was released 29/01/2014 and contained the following components:

• CREAM TORQUE v. 2.1.2: This release fixes the wrong total cpu count from PBS infoprovider together with a dependency issue with lcg-info-dynamic-scheduler

• ARC-CE v. 4.0.0: This is a major release of ARC-CE and include updates for both server and client tools. Among several new features now ARC client tools use by default the new client-side BDB job storage if available this leads to an backwards incompatible since jobs stored in xml file will not be accessed.

• QCG COMP v. 3.2.0 : This release provides and optimization of the GetFactoryAttributes method together with an extension element in SLURM module and some bug fixes.

• BDII-CORE v. 1.5.5: On this release there a new version of glite-yaim-bdii that sets the top BDII cache validity to 4 days by default. Also this release also contains a new version of glue-validator-cron that logs only the results for full EGI profile GLUE 2 validation.

• BDII-TOP v. 1.1.4: This release decommissions the FCR (Freedom of Choice of Resources) mechanism that is no longer needed in the top BDII.

Messaging:

• QCG NOTIFICATION v. 3.2.0 : This release provides server improvements like the option for disabling Current Messages and several bugfixes.

• GridSite v. 2.2.0 : This is a minor release of GridSite addressing the issue of key lengths being hard-coded at 512 bits. It increases the default key length to 1024 bits, and exposes new functions in the API to accepts custom key lengths.

1.3 Staged rollout updates

• Currently in staged rollout:
  • mpi v. 1.5.3 RELEASE NOTES
  • lb v. 4.0.12 RELEASE NOTES
  • apel-parser v. 2.2.1 and apel-ssm v. 2.1.1 RELEASE NOTES
  • Globus 5.2.5:
    • gridftp v. 5.2.5
    • gram5 v. 5.2.5

1.3.1 WMS issues

• At the moment there are 5 major open issues with WMS:
  • There are two problems regarding with the proxies that in some cases can still generate 512 bits proxies:
    • The WMS Purger still uses 512 bits which is hard-coded and can update wms's proxy with the wrong 512 bits (NOTES).
    • The glite-wms-create-proxy.sh uses an undefined GLOBUS_LOCATION env var which avoids the invocation of grid-proxy-init, which by default produces 1024bit proxies. The missing variable its solved by the WMS purger which then generates 512 bits proxies. (NOTES).
  • Issues introduced only in 3.6.2 (UMD not affected):
  • WMProxy still uses the low-level symlink call which doesn't support heading dash ("-") in the file names (NOTES).
  • Bad exception handling in ICE prevents the user from getting a readable error message (NOTES).
  • Problem on glite-wms-wmproxy-api-java with TERENA certificate (NOTE)

1.3.2 CREAM_SLURM

• Cream-slurm v. 1.0.1 as some problem with accounting that many records not being published even if jobs successfully finished. This is under investigation so if you are planning to deploy cream-slurm I would delay it until putting into production.

2. Operational issues

2.1 Report from DMSU

Nothing to report

2.1 EMI-2 decommision calendar

According to the EGI decommissioning policy, the decommissioning deadline expires one month after the end of security updates and support of the software. For EMI 2 the end of security support is: 30-04-2014. And unsupported services must be either decommissioned, upgraded or in downtime after 31 May 2014.

A broadcast has been sent to sites and NGIs.

List of affected products

• ARC v2.*
• ARGUS v1.5.*
• BDII Site older than v1.2.0
• BDII Top older than v1.1.0
• CREAM v1.14.*
• dCache v2.2.*
• DPM older than v1.8.6
• EMI-UI v2.*
• EMI-WN v2.*
• FTS v.2.2.8
• StoRM older than v.1.11.0
• VOMS v.2.*