What's new

This version has been prepared after receiving feedback from production sites. It includes a set of bug fixes that should leave CREAM in a much more stable and reliable state for production deployment.

• Staging option in PBS is configurable, to be able to deal with Torque (new and old versions) and PBSPro
• VO setting (as VirtualOrganisation variable) available and usable in xxx_local_submit_attributes.sh script (see http://grid.pd.infn.it/cream/field.php?n=Main.ForwardOfRequirementsToTheBatchSystem)
• Fixed a problem in the connection between CREAM and the old blparser
• Fixed a problem with sudoers file generation
• Other bug fixes

Installation and configuration

• When updating, please use: yum update

  Please note that doing: yum update glite-CREAM you are not guaranteed to have all relevant RPMs updated.

• (Re)configuration is needed after the installation/update.
• If the new blparser is used (default option) it is just necessary to run yaim once (i.e. it is not necessary anymore to first configure the creamCE and then the BLparser). More information in: http://grid.pd.infn.it/cream/field.php?n=Main.CREAMAndBlparserConfiguration

Known issues

This release of CREAM CE 1.6.4 uses c-ares 1.3.0-4. In particular it will not possible to update the node to c-ares 1.6 due to unsatisfied dependencies. In case you have the slc5-updates repository enabled, which contains c-ares 1.6, c-ares will need to excluded e.g.

excluding when running the yum update command:

yum update --exclude=c-ares

or by adding an exclude line to the .repo file, e.g. in /etc/yum.repos.d/slc5-updates.repo

exclude=c-ares

For other known issues see: http://grid.pd.infn.it/cream/field.php?n=Main.KnownIssues

Dependencies

The following internal patches have been included in this metapackage release:

• patch #4231: [ yaim-core ] yaim-core 4.0.12-2 SL5/x86_64
  • Bug fix: create the non-subcluster specific (per VO) directories and empty list files for holding VO tag information under /opt/edg/var/info
• patch #4214: [ yaim-core ] yaim-core 4.0.13 SL5/x86_64
  • Do not rely on the content of /etc/issue.net to get information about the OS
  • Ensure that the check functions in yaim core will print out missing variables in one go (i.e. with the --verify option)
  • Create the old style (non subcluster split) vo tag directories under /opt/edg/var/info
  • Other bug fixes
• patch #4542: [ yaim-core ] yaim-core 4.0.14-1 SL5/x86_64
  • correction of the undefined function in /opt/glite/yaim/etc/clean-grid-env-funcs.sh
  • yaim runs with umask 022
  • utils/detect_platform has been slightly enhanced now to allow the admin to override the platform OS by defining a new variable YAIM_OS_TYPE e.g. in site-info.def. A warning will then indicate that the platform has been overridden.
  • improvement on dealing with GLOBUS_TCP_PORT_RANGE:
    • always use a comma to separate the port limits;
    • warn about old syntax with space as separator, then convert it;
    • bail out on unexpected characters in the port range
  • other fixes