Note: This version of the VDT (1.10.1) is supported, but is not our latest stable release. The current stable release is 2.0.0.

VDT 1.10.1t Update

On 2008-02-12, the VDT team announced the release of VDT 1.10.1t.

Changes to VDT 1.10.1t

The Generic Information Provider has been upgraded to 1.0.8. This update fixes a bug in the dCache admin-interface provider. (VDT ticket 4698)
The Gratia probes have been upgraded. This update improves detection of GRAM jobs when using GRAM 4 and fixes bugs in reporting PBS/LSF jobs. Further details are in the RT ticket: (VDT ticket 4796)
Gratia-Services and Gratia-Reporting have been upgraded. Details are in the RT ticket: (VDT ticket 4802)

Updating to VDT 1.10.1t

If you installed VDT 1.10.1 after VDT 1.10.1t was released on 2008-02-12, you do not need to do any of these update operations because you will have 1.10.1t.

The best way to do the update is to update the individual packages that have changed. To be clear, we do not recommend using pacman -update without specifying specific package names. Also note that you only need to update packages if you installed them. You can see what packages have been installed with:

pacman -lc

Pre-update directions

Before you do any of the update directions that follow, please run the following commands to stop services and take a backup of your installation. This applies for all of the updates.

cd $VDT_LOCATION
. setup.sh
vdt-control --off
cp -pr $VDT_LOCATION BACKUP-LOCATION

The copy command makes a complete backup of your VDT installation, in case something goes wrong. Do not skip this step!

Updating CA-Certificates

Note: if you have not yet updated your CA-Certificates package (released on September 11th in VDT 1.10.1i), some of the following updates may automatically include this update for you. After this update, you will need to do a one-time configuration to re-install the certificates on your system. Many of the components installed by the VDT will not work until the certificates are re-installed. See the full instructions

1. Updating the GIP

pacman -update Generic-Information-Provider

2. Updating Gratia Probes

You just need to update the Gratia Probes that you have installed. If you are running an OSG site, you probably have one for your batch system and the "Metric" probe. Select the commands below that apply to the probes you have installed:

# Select the batch system probe you have
pacman -update Gratia-Condor-Probe
pacman -update Gratia-LSF-Probe
pacman -update Gratia-PBS-Probe
pacman -update Gratia-SGE-Probe

# OSG sites probably need the Metric probe updated (for RSV)
pacman -update Gratia-Metric-Probe

# The glexec probe is only if you use glexec
pacman -update Gratia-Glexec-Probe

# If you are using Bestman, you may be using the GridFTP probe
pacman -update Gratia-GridFTP-Transfer-Probe

3. Updating Gratia-Reporting

pacman -update Gratia-Reporting

Post-update directions

If you are finished applying all lettered updates, do not forget to restart services, typically using vdt-control. For example, to turn on all services:

vdt-control --on