VDT 1.10.1 Release

On 13 May 2008, the VDT team announced the release of VDT 1.10.1.

Updates to VDT 1.10.1

Update	Release Date	Notes
1.10.1h	3 Sep 2008	Minor security updates
1.10.1g	18 Aug 2008	Software updates
1.10.1f	31 Jul 2008	Security update, Software update
1.10.1e	11 Jul 2008	Software updates
1.10.1d	11 Jun 2008	Software updates
1.10.1c	09 Jun 2008	Security update, software updates
1.10.1b	29 May 2008	Software updates
1.10.1a	21 May 2008	fix VOMS exit status codes
1.10.1	13 May 2008	initial release

Highlights of changes since 1.10.0

• Added support for VOMS on newer platforms, such as RHEL 5 and Debian 4. This required changing VOMS to use MySQL 5 instead of MySQL 4.

New Software Since 1.10.0

• We have added LCG-Utils, a collection of tools developed by LCG to access storage elements. As of the initial release of VDT 1.10.1, our testing of lcg-utils has been light, but we hope to improve our testing as we update VDT 1.10.1 in the weeks after release. (VDT ticket 3211)
• We have added Lotman. This has two components. The first is a GridFTP server from GT 4.1.3. (We'll update this as new versions are released.) The second is a plug-in called Lotman that allows you to configure quotas for users. You can use just the new GridFTP server, or you can use it with Lotman. More details will be provided soon. (VDT ticket 3359)

Upgraded Software Since 1.10.0

Software	Ticket (if applicable)
Apache HTTPD 2.2.9
Berkeley Storage Manager (BeStMan) 2.2.0.11.a	(VDT ticket 3501)
gLite CEMon Server 1.9.1-0	(VDT ticket 3488)
Condor/Condor-G 7.0.4
Condor Cron For OSG-RSV 7.0.4
dCache 2.2.8 (Based on dCache 1.8.0-15p8)
Generic Information Provider 1.0.1	(VDT ticket 3513)
glexec-osg 0.5.3 (glexec 0.5.23.3, lcas 1.3.7.1 and lcmaps 1.4.3.1) 0.5.3
Gratia Condor Probe 0.34.9-1	(VDT ticket 3521)
Gratia Glexec Probe 0.34.9-1	(VDT ticket 3521)
Gratia LSF Probe 0.34.9-1	(VDT ticket 3521)
Gratia Metric Probe 0.34.9-1	(VDT ticket 3521)
Gratia PBS Probe 0.34.9-1	(VDT ticket 3521)
Gratia Reporting 0.34.9	(VDT ticket 3522)
Gratia Services 0.34.9	(VDT ticket 3522)
Gratia SGE Probe 0.34.9-1	(VDT ticket 3521)
Java SDK 1.4.2_18
Java 5 SDK 1.5.0_16
Java 6 SDK 1.6.0_07
LCG-Utils 1.6.11-1 (includes GFAL 1.10.11-1) 1.6.11-1
OpenLDAP 2.3.39
OSG Resource and Service Validation (RSV) 2.3.4
OSG Resource and Service Validation (RSV) Probes 2.3.2
VOMS Admin 2.0.14-1

Bug Fixes Since 1.10.0

• Globus was patched to fix a few bugs, specifically:
  • WS GRAM now removes a delegated proxy when a job finished.
  • Fixed a failure that could cause PRIMA GT4 (an authorization callout from WSGRAM to GUMS) to fail.
  • Fixed parsing of signing policy errors. Some people saw these errors in the Globus container's log file.
  • Fixed a serious bug in RFT.
  Detailed list of Globus patches in VDT 1.10.1
• Fixed problem where glexec didn't install correctly on x86-64 platforms. (VDT ticket 3507)
• We've upgraded CEMon to a new version that fixes problems people experienced with the version from VDT 1.10.1, particularly CEMon not reporting. We also improved the configuration of CEMon. (VDT tickets 3481, 3488)

New Platform Support

• We now have some minimal support for AIX 5.3. Details

Other Changes since 1.10.0

• For the Generic-Information-Package, added GIP_LOCATION to the environment and put the GIP bin directory into the PATH. (VDT ticket 3497)
• We have renamed the following packages: (VDT ticket 3496)
  SRM-V1-Client → SRM-Client-Fermi
  SRM-V2-Client → SRM-Client-LBNL
  SRM-V2-Tester → SRM-Tester-LBNL
• The Gratia probes have been updated:
  • The Gratia probes can now collect the DN (Distinguished Name) and FQAN (Fully Qualified Authorization Name--the "VOMS proxy" information) from the proxy, when available.
  • The PBS/LSF probes were improved to prevent misreading an incomplete line in the batch manager log.
  • The Condor probe was updated:
    • to get information on WS jobs
    • to use ClassAds generated by PER_JOB_HISTORY_DIR (if available) to avoid expensive calls to condor_history. Will fall back on condor_history
    • to facilitate "local" probes by means of a constraint option so probes only process certain types of job.
    • to avoid double-counting when information about the same job is received from multiple sources.
  • dCache / SRM probes now available (see dCache release notes)
  • Minor improvements to SGE probe from Shreyas Cholia.
• We patched voms-proxy-info to add a -dont-verify-ac option. (VDT ticket 3493)
• If VDT_GUMS_HOST is set in the environment at installation time. , it will be put into the prima-authz.conf file.
• KX.509 is no longer installed by the OSG-CE, VDT-Client, or VDT-Gatekeeper packages. It is still in the VDT and can be installed separately. KX.509 is also now supported on Debian 4. (VDT ticket 3428)
• Globus-SGE-Setup and Globus-WS-SGE-Setup were updated with a fix for a memory leak.
• Syslog-ng now has two configuration scripts. One (the default) sets up a "sender", and the other sets up a receiver. A possible OSG plan is to encourage sites to collect logs at a central (per-site) collector to aid in understanding what is happening at a site. (VDT ticket 3518)
• The OpenLDAP package, which was never much used, now only includes the client tools and libraries, but not the server. In the VDT, it is only used by LCG-Utils, which only depends on the libraries.
• We made some changes to Apache to make it and packages that depend on it easier to upgrade later. In particular, we separated our Apache and PHP packages, so that updates to PHP do not affect Apache and therefore do not affect installations that do not need PHP (including most of OSG). Also, we separated the Apache configuration that is specific to other VDT packages, so that Apache can be updated without needing to move the main Apache config file to the side.
• Updated the Bouncy Castle provider. This package provides some low-level services to Java applications (especially web applications) that process X.509 certificates. It hadn't been updated in a long time, and one other update in this VDT release required the newer version. All web applications running under Tomcat 5.5, which is most of them, will now use the new provider library.
• We now recommend the use of Pacman 3.25, the latest release of Pacman.

Learning More

To learn more, you can view the main documentation page or documentation specific to VDT 1.10.1.

Known Problems

The VDT 1.10.1 cache is located at: http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/vdt_1101_cache