Release: Update-16

Summary

Validation Steps performed

Outlined in SAM-2218

List of packages updated in this release

Node sam-nagios

atp-1.22.13-1.el5
atp-web-1.22.13-1.el5
mrs-1.4.9-1.el5
mywlcg-1.0.1-1.el5 (with POEM)
perl-TOM-2.3-1.el5
poem-0.8.12-1.el5
poem-sync-0.8.12-1.el5
grid-monitoring-config-gen-0.87.3-1.el5
glite-yaim-nagios-1.6.25-1.el5
sam-release-1.16.0-1.el5
(From EPEL)
perl-Directory-Queue-1.2-1.el5
perl-Net-STOMP-Client-1.2-1.el5

Node sam-gridmon

ace-0.1.25-1.el5
atp-1.22.13-1.el5
atp-web-1.22.13-1.el5
glite-yaim-nagios-1.6.25-1.el5
mrs-1.4.9-1.el5
mywlcg-1.0.1-1.el5 (with POEM)
perl-TOM-2.3-1.el5
poem-0.8.12-1.el5
poem-sync-0.8.12-1.el5
rgf-1.0.2-1
sam-gridmon-1.16.1-1.el5
(From EPEL)
perl-Directory-Queue-1.2-1.el5
perl-Net-STOMP-Client-1.2-1.el5

Release Notes

• ACE
  • Possibility of defining algorithm (ANDing or ORing) for service flavours
  • Integration with POEM
  • Data migration to POEM

• ATP
  • Synchronize all external information sources
  • User authentication in API for retrieving contacts
  • Concurrency improvement: locking mechanism for ATP
  • Several bug fixes

• glite-yaim-nagios
  • Support definition of multiple destinations in msg-consume2db

• grid-monitoring-probes-eu.egi.sec
  • Blacklisting directiories in Permission probe
  • Bug fixes

• MRS
  • Integration with POEM - phase 1/2
    • Triggers for setting keys pointing to POEM in the MRS DB
  • Data migration to POEM
  • Marking services deleted from vofeed as REMOVED
  • Accept new aligned service type names for OSG services
  • Several bug fixes

• MyWLCG
  • Integration with POEM
  • MyWLCG filters - ANDing by default
  • Changes in MyWLCG views:
    • Removed views: "Service Status" and "Metric Status"
    • Renamed view "Service Status History" to "Service Status"
    • Service Availability: quality bars default, remove the labels below the Apply button, round the avail number shown in hint to 2 decimal numbers
  • Simple benchmark for API
  • Several bug fixes

• Nagios
  • Integration with new version of Nagios Core (3.3.1)

• NCG
  • Don't use old SAM PI for getting remote metric results
  • Use ATP for retrieving service endpoints and users information
  • Several bug fixes

• POEM
  • Import mddb profiles via yaim
  • Concurrency improvement: locking mechanism for POEM

• RGF (only for sam-gridmon)
  • Report generation framework
  • New package for generating ACE reports
  • Integration with POEM

• voms2htpasswd
  • Take data from ATP for configuring file '/etc/nagios/htpasswd.users'

Configuration changes (common)

• New YAIM configuration variables

  MYWLCG_THROTTLE #Default: False. If THROTTLE is set to True, limit the number of accesses per IP address in a given time(seconds).

Configuration changes (sam-gridmon)

• Ask for explicit grant to create tables (not coming from role) for main Oracle account.

Configuration changes (sam-nagios)

• New YAIM configuration variables

  ATP_ROOT_URL - default value https://grid-monitoring.cern.ch/atp (Always needs to be https).
  NCG_CONTACTS_USE_ATP - use ATP to generate contact lists, requires NCG_TOPOLOGY_USE_ATP to be set (default: true)

• Changed semantics of YAIM variables

  NCG_TOPOLOGY_USE_ATP - switches on both NCG::SiteSet and NCG::SiteInfo, also required for NCG::SiteContacts (default: true)
  NCG_TOPOLOGY_USE_GOCDB - switches on both NCG::SiteSet and NCG::SiteInfo, also required for NCG::SiteContacts (default: false)
  NCG_TOPOLOGY_USE_LDAP - switches on both NCG::SiteInfo and NCG::LocalMetricsAttrs (default: false)

• Obsoleted YAIM configuration variables

  NCG_TOPOLOGY_ATP_ROOT_URL

Known Issues

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

List of Issues fixed in this release