Release: Update-13

Summary

Validation Steps performed

Outlined in SAM-1772

• Announced for Stage Rollout - 25 August 2011
• Cleared staged rollout - 07 September 2011
  • Early Adopter Report - Update-13 EA Report

List of packages updated in this release

Node SAM-Nagios

atp-1.18.5-1.el5
atp-web-1.18.5-1.el5
egee-NAGIOS-1.0.0-70.el5
glite-yaim-nagios-1.4.16-1.el5
grid-monitoring-config-gen-0.81.2-1.el5
grid-monitoring-probes-hr.srce-0.33.1-1.el5
grid-monitoring-probes-org.sam.sec-0.3.5-2.el5
msg-nagios-bridge-1.0.62-1.el5
mywlcg-0.0.2-2.el5
nagios2metricstore-1.1.3-1.el5
sam-release-1.13.0-1.el5
unicore-monitoring-probes-2.0.0-1
voms2htpasswd-1.10.0-1.el5

Node SAM-Gridmon

ace-0.1.10-2.el5
atp-1.18.5-1.el5
atp-web-1.18.5-1.el5
egee-NAGIOS-WEB-0.9.1-3.el5
glite-yaim-nagios-1.4.16-1.el5
msg-consume2db-1.0.21-1.el5
msg-nagios-bridge-1.0.62-1.el5
mywlcg-0.0.2-2.el5
nagios2metricstore-1.1.3-1.el5
poem-0.5.6-1.el5
sam-release-1.13.0-1.el5
voms2htpasswd-1.10.0-1.el5

Release Notes

• Failover Nagios - configurable hot-standby mode. Failover configuration
• ATP VO feed sanity check
• MyWLCG/MYEGI portal
  • Do not show FQANs in profile selection
  • Throttling for myWLCG WEB API
  • Setting performance limits for programmatic interface
• Enable switching on notifications even when NCG_ENABLE_NOTIFICATION is switched off. This enables SAM admins to switch on notifications to subset of sites. Also, it is possible to enable multiple contacts per site or per host. Enabling contacts per host is useful for core services. For details see SAM-1424.
• Gathering statistics of load in metric results store
• Set VOMS anti-CSRF header
• Enable removing metric from an alias on host with multiple aliases
• Enable manual definition of GoodCEs for WMS-JobState check
• Cleanup of dependencies in metapackages
• Use job classes in Oracle databases
• Several bug fixes
• New YAIM configuration variables
  • Performance Limits in MyWLCG/MyEGI portal
    This variables have default values as listed below

    # Limit number of rows that can be fetched at a time to avoid DB dumps.
    MYWLCG_DB_LIMIT=50000
    # Limit number of accesses per IP address in a given time(seconds).
    MYWLCG_ACCESS_PERIOD=5
    MYWLCG_NUMBER_OF_ACCESSES=100

  • VO Feeds Configuration (one feed per VO defined in NCG_VO)

    ATP_<VO>_VO_FEED

  • Install backup SAM instance (SAM-1127)

    NCG_BACKUP_INSTANCE=true

• New localdb configuration options
  • Remove metric from alias only (SAM-1645)

    REMOVE_ALIAS_METRIC!alias!metric

  • Add options for enabling host and site contacts when global notifications (ENABLE_NOTIFICATIONS) are disabled:

    ADD_SITE_CONTACT!sitename!emailAddress
    ENABLE_SITE_CONTACT!sitename!emailAddress
    ENABLE_HOSTCONTACT!hostname!emailAddress

Known Issues

For machines running latest version of glite-UI (3.2.10-1): Please restart Nagios after yaim execution. Otherwise you may see problems similar to SAM-1693. service nagios restart

In fresh NGI Nagios installations MyEGI/MyWLCG gridmap view isn't sized properly due to switched off gstat synchronizer.

List of Issues fixed in this release