Note: This version of the VDT (1.8.0) is no longer supported. Feel free to look through the documentation and install it, but we cannot guarantee support for it. The current stable release is 2.0.0.

VDT 1.8.0 Release

On 2007-08-01, the VDT team announced the release of VDT 1.8.0.

Updates to VDT 1.8.0

Update	Release Date	Notes
1.8.0f	2007-08-24	VOMRS security update — changes and update instructions are available separately
1.8.0e	2007-08-20	OSG Resource and Service Validation fixes - changes and update instructions are available separately
1.8.0d	2007-08-15	Condor-Devel bug fixes, minor vdt-questions bug fix - changes and update instructions are available separately
1.8.0c	2007-08-10	Gratia Service update - changes and update instructions are available separately
1.8.0b	2007-08-08	CA-Certificates-Updater bug fixes - changes and update instructions are available separately
1.8.0a	2007-08-07	changes and update instructions are available separately
1.8.0	2007-08-01	initial release

Highlights of changes since 1.6.1

RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 is now supported.
There is a new package, OSG-Site-Validate, which will help OSG site administrators check if their sites are operating correctly. Although the phrase "OSG" is in the title and it was developed for OSG sites, it's useful by non-OSG sites as well because most of the tests are non-OSG specific.
Syslog-ng is now part of the VDT, and it is installed alongside any existing syslog daemon that might be on your system. (Assuming you install it at all, that is.) OSG is likely to use syslog-ng to collect centralized logs for troubleshooting purposes.
We are now using Globus 4.0.5. This release incorporates many (but not all) of the patches that we used to apply to Globus. In particular, it incorporates nearly all of the “community branch” (for TeraGrid) changes that we used apply as a set of patches. This change will make it easier to maintain our Globus build. Also, WS-GRAM received a number of fixes to improve reliability and scalability. You can see our patches to Globus. (VDT Ticket 2721)
Java 5 is now the default instead of Java 4, except for web applications running in Tomcat 5.0. (VDT Ticket 2718)
VOMS nows runs on 64-bit computers.
For OSG installations, batch job managers (Condor, PBS, SGE, and LSF) will reset GLOBUS_LOCATION for jobs based on OSG_GRID. This allows GLOBUS_LOCATION to be different for the gatekeeper and the worker nodes. This has been tested on all platforms, but it might not be working on LSF — the current behavior on LSF seems to simply not change GLOBUS_LOCATION, so it is no worse than it used to be.
There is now an RPM for installing the CA certificates. It has been lightly tested. If you want to use it, it’s best to tell the VDT not to install the CA certificates at all, and then just use the RPM.
There is now a program, vdt-update-certs, for automatically updating the CA Certificates. It is a cron job that is optionally enabled. View the documentation.
The way in which web applications are installed into Tomcat 5.0 and 5.5 is now more robust and more consistent with Tomcat best practices.
Pacman 3.20 is now the minimum supported version of Pacman. It is substantially faster than previous versions of pacman, which makes a VDT install faster.

New Software Since 1.6.1

VOMRS 1.3.1b — (VDT Ticket 2252) (VDT Ticket 2544) (VDT Ticket 2612)
Condor-NFSLite Job Manager — (VDT Ticket 2479) (VDT Ticket 2513)
Syslog-ng (VDT Ticket 2649)
Grid Exerciser (VDT Ticket 1836)
OSG-Site-Validate
JDK-1.6 (not yet used by any other component)
Bestman 2.2.0.2 (VDT Ticket 2764)
Gratia Glexec Probe 0.26.2b-1 (VDT Ticket 2761)
Gratia Metric Probe 0.26.2b-1
Globus GRAM 4 (web services) support for SGE 1.1 (VDT Ticket 2762)
Please note that it has been added, but there are problems preventing it from working. Details
lcg-info 1.11.0-1 and lcg-infosites 2.6-2 have been added. These allow easy querying of a BDII.
Pegasus 2.0.1 (VDT Ticket 2719)
Glexec 0.1 (VDT Ticket 1518)

Upgraded Software Since 1.6.1

Software	Ticket (if applicable)
Apache HTTPD 2.2.4	(VDT Ticket 2716)
Condor/Condor-G 6.8.5
cURL 7.16.2
Globus Toolkit, pre web-services 4.0.5	(VDT Ticket 2721)
Globus Toolkit, web-services 4.0.5	(VDT Ticket 2721)
Gratia Condor Probe 0.26.2b-1
Gratia LSF Probe 0.26.2b-1
Gratia PBS Probe 0.26.2b-1
Gratia Reporting 0.26.3	(VDT Ticket 2762)
Gratia Services 0.26.3	(VDT Ticket 2762)
Gratia SGE Probe 0.26.2b-1
GSI-Enabled OpenSSH 4.0
GUMS 1.2.2	(VDT Ticket 2725) (VDT Ticket 2823)
Java SDK 1.4.2_14
MonALISA 1.6.16
MyProxy 3.9
MySQL 4.1.22
MySQL 5.0.41
NMI Build and Test 2.2.7
PRIMA Authorization Module 0.6	(VDT Ticket 2724)
Squid Web Proxy Cache 2.6.13	(VDT Ticket 2710)
SRM Tester 1.3
SRM V2 Client 2.2.0.2
SRM V2 Tester 2.2.0.2
Tcl 8.4.15	(VDT Ticket 2822)
TclGlobus 1.6.0	(VDT Ticket 2822)
UberFTP 1.24
VOMS 1.7.20.1	(VDT Ticket 2692)
VOMS Admin (client 1.2.15-1, interface 1.0.5-1, server 1.2.19-1) 1.2.19-1-0	(VDT Ticket 2643) (VDT Ticket 2799)

Removed Software Since 1.6.1

DRM has been removed and replaced by Bestman. (VDT Ticket 2764)
Clarens was removed (VDT Ticket 2767). As a result, Apache no longer installs Python.
VDS has been removed and replaced by Pegasus. (VDT Ticket 2719)

Bug Fixes Since 1.6.1

Fixed Apache PHP configuration problem by adding a PHPIniDir line to the Apache config (httpd.conf) (VDT Ticket 2475)
Fixed PERL5LIB, which lets the VDT install better on Debian 4 and Ubuntu (though they are officially unsupported platforms). (VDT Ticket 2552)

New Platform Support

RedHat Enterprise Linux AP 5 (VDT Ticket 2626) (VDT Ticket 2627)

Other Changes since 1.6.1

Java 5 is now the default instead of Java 4, except for web applications running in Tomcat 5.0 (VDT Ticket 2718) and on IA64 platforms, where Java 5 is not supported.
Squid was upgraded to version 2.6.13 (VDT Ticket 2710), and the configuration was tweaked a bit (VDT Ticket 2711)
The Gratia PBS and LSF probe is now compiled on all supported platforms. This should resolve problems people had when the probe didn't work due to failed dynamic linking. (VDT Ticket 2634) (VDT Ticket 2761)
The configuration of the generic information provider has been updated. (VDT Ticket 2763)

Learning More

To learn more, you can view the main documentation page or documentation specific to VDT 1.8.0.

Known Problems

The VDT 1.8.0 cache is located at: http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/vdt_180_cache