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Publication from : litmaath <[log in to unmask]>
Targets : Generic mailing-list/LCG Rollout Mailing List <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear colleagues,
this Tue Apr 28 the old aliases (lcg-)voms.cern.ch have been removed.
Below are updated reminders concerning the switch to the new VOMS servers:
UI configuration
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Since the old VOMS services (lcg-)voms.cern.ch cannot be used to obtain
VOMS proxies anymore, it is desirable to remove any references to those
services from the VOMS client configuration on User Interface hosts.
The configuration files are by default located in the /etc/vomses directory.
Note: the YAIM configuration tool will only _create_ such files according
to its configuration --> stale files will have to be _manually_ removed.
The VOMS clients will skip over services that are not available (anymore),
but in such cases the user may get confusing error messages.
Grid-mapfile configuration
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One of the old services (voms.cern.ch) was also being used for creating
various types of grid-mapfiles still used by some grid services.
That functionality (VOMS-Admin) was available until today (Tue Apr 28).
Grid-mapfiles are typically created by the edg-mkgridmap utility that is
robust against a VOMS server being temporarily unavailable for some VO:
in such cases it will _not_ delete any DN for the affected VO.
In the current case, however, the given VOMS server will not come back
and therefore should instead be removed from the configuration.
LSC files
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LSC files referring to the old VOMS servers are simply ignored;
it is therefore not needed to remove them explicitly.
VOMS configuration details
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The details for the new situation are described on this page:
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/VOMSLSCfileConfiguration
Also the VO cards of the LHC experiments and the Ops VO are up to date.
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